Christmas/Winter Activities

December meant lots of concerts, parties and activities.  Here are some of the highlights.

The kids' piano recital was held at the Eccles Art Gallery.  It's my favorite place for a recital especially at Christmas.  It's an old restored house downtown that has been turned into an art gallery and it is decorated beautifully at Christmas!  The Steinway the kids get to play on is awesome too.  Kaitlyn made it through all 12 verses of the Twelve Days of Christmas this year.  It's fun to see how much better Andrew and Jared have gotten.  Here they are with our friends, the Larsens, and their piano teacher, Sharyl Tucker.  We were excited to finally get assigned the same recital time.  Our two families took up most of the recital!

Andrew enjoyed being part of the Jazz band at the junior high this year playing the keyboard.  They played a Christmas concert at the food court in the mall.  They were a great band!

Kaitlyn loves to sing and is constantly singing around the house.  I thought she would enjoy being part of the school choir and signed her up.  She did enjoy singing but complained a bit that Friday afternoons is when the rehearsals were and she would rather be playing.  She did a great job at the Christmas concert and was all smiles up on stage.

And of course it wouldn't be Christmas time without skiing.  After a pretty dismal start to the snow season we had several storms over Christmas break and had a lot of fun skiing while the kids were off school.