More Holiday Fun

Every year, generally the first Friday in December, Bountiful has a light parade along Main Street. Both last year and this year, we took Ryan’s friend, Logan, with us to the parade and the activities after. The parade was much shorter this year, but it definitely wasn’t as cold. The boys enjoyed it, but were disappointed that their favorite float from last year didn’t participate this year. After the parade, we went to the rec center for the festivities there. The boys spotted Dance Dance Revolution (commonly referred to as DDR), and hopped on. They only left it for root beer floats, and a handful of times when other kids wanted to do it.

The photographer from the Clipper (local newspaper) was pretty entertained by them for a while, took a few pictures, and asked me their names. We though for sure their pictures would be in the paper yesterday. Nope. They’ll have to have their few minutes of DDR fame here.Saturday was our annual ward (church congregation) progressive dinner. It is one of my favorite events of the year. We meet at the church for hors d'oeuvres and visit there for a while. We are given our “salad” assignment, and go to various homes around the neighborhood (8 to 10 people per home) for that course. We visit for a while there, and then move to our “dinner” assignment home, where there is a different group of 8 to 10 people. We then meet back at the church for dessert. It is a fun way to meet new people, and have more time visiting with people we already know.

Everyone is asked to bring an appetizer dish to share. I found a cute snowman cheeseball online and decided to make it. Here is how it turned out. (Note the close-up view of my lovely new countertops.) It turned out so cute, that it is one of the things I’m serving on Christmas when the fam comes here.