Christmas fun

I have just loved the season. I love the crystallized trees in the morning and the falling snow in the lamp light. I don't even mind shoveling the walks around the mortuary. I love breathing in the cold air and feeling so refreshed. We were blessed with "anonymous" donations, and we can't thank you enough for making our Holidays a little merrier. I won't lie, I enjoy being on the receiving end of so much love but we'll be happy to be on the giving end in the future. We have had a merry Christmas so far, with lots of fun activities. The Jon Schmidt concert was Super! I dragged Josh to it, but he actually really enjoyed himself - yea! - we will have culture if it kills me!! There were times when I got emotional, because music just has this amazing power over me. Have a listen to the following mash-up and just imagine more strings and percussion filling an auditorium - oh it was beautiful! I get chills listening to it and my heart feels very happy. We went to the lights down at Temple Square and Josh swears it's his last year :( lots of traffic and people cause him stress. Next year I'll just pretend he never said that because it really is so beautiful and I would feel like something was missing. We didn't stay long, because somewhere between our house and the parking garage we lost Ty's boot, so he was walking around in crocks, and the air was frigid so Emmett in his little hooded 'gown' was shivering - poor things. All the suffering just so mom could see some pretty trees! Santa Clause made a special stop at g'ma and g'pa McMillans. We bet on Ty bursting into tears, but he held it together! He was scootin off Santa's leg as soon as we put him down and could only look out the sides of his eyes at this jolly old soul.
After explaining what a nice guy Santa is and because of him presents will be under the tree, Ty decided he needed to give a hug and let Santa know he was cool with him. I'm so excited for Christmas Eve, I think it's funner than Christmas! Playing white elephant bingo (if you don't know what 'white elephant' is, you are missing out!) Singing songs, listening to the story of Jesus' birth, and playing Santa Clause. Oh what fun!!