Our Christmas in St George. . . . so far

Kindrick Family Christmas party

Kindrick Kids

The kids, especially Kennedy, have been a little fascinated with blogging and have been bugging me to let them start their own. So today I sat down and helped them get started. You can check out the beginnings of their blog here.

I knew it was coming !

Our first big snow storm hit today. The girls spent 15 minutes bundling up to play outside for 5. Actually, Kennedy was out for quite a bit longer, making a little snow man.

I'm totally bummed. . .

. . .And I only have my self to blame!

I told myself that all I wanted for Christmas was tickets to see Wicked when it comes in April.

I knew tickets went on sale this morning seven.

I knew I should drive up to Salt Lake to the box office to get tickets.

But I decided it was too hard to get up there after getting the kids off to school, and be home for the kindergarten bus by 11:30.

So I took my chances on the phone/online.

The website wasn't working (probably crashed), and I called over and over for 2 hours straight. Only to find out it is sold out!

So no Wicked tickets for Kristie. ..

Totally Random

I should have some really neat Christmas post to put up, but since my life seems to be full of completely random events, I will share a few of them.

Have you ever played the game SET? David and I used to play it as newly weds with our good friends Jared and Mary (we actually used to get quite competitive). We have had it for a long time, but haven't pulled it off the shelf for many years. I decided to get it down a week or so ago and let the kids give it a try (in a non-competivitive way. .. . just looking for the sets). It is pretty simple. You look at the cards and find a set. There are three different colors, shapes, shading, and number of items. All three cards need to either be the same or all different in each category to make a set. (It really is simple, I just don't know how to make it sound simple) The kids have played it about every day since. Can you see any sets down there? Mia found her first set tonight. All diamonds, All single in number, All empty, Three different colors.

Elizabeth likes to write random notes all the time. She has a pen and paper and writes whatever she wants. This is a sample of what I find laying around the house:

Since this post is totally random, I thought I would mention that we really like hot chocolate (except Mia. .. crazy girl. she doen't like chocolate milk either). We like it even more when we have mini marshmallows to go in the cocoa. I opened up a bag on Sunday morning, and it was empty the same day.. . . ok, ok, I guess I should say that we really like marshmallows!!

Yeah, I know, Mia isn't eating marshmallows, or drinking hot cocoa, but she looked so cute all ready for church that I had to get her in there as well.

The queen of random at our house is Elizabeth with her outfits. Whenever she walks out of her room, I never know what surprise she will have on! Here is her outfit she put on after school today:

This outfit is nothing compared to some of the things she pulls out. I have no idea where this little "snow dress" came from that is three sizes too small. We actually went to walmart with this on. . .. She improvised the face herself.

Various homework activities go on at the Kindrick household. Some how, Luke always has the least amount. ... .he claims he finishes at school. Which must be true because at every parent teacher conference we ever go to his grades are all excellent. Kennedy has been working on her mulitplication. This week is "6s". We work these flash cards several times a day:

Ok, I will throw one random Christmas thing in the mix. My sister-in-law, Shannon, reminded me through her blog post that I have this little book. There is a Christmas story, song, and scripture for every day in December leading up to Christmas eve. Sunday night the story was Christmas Day in the Morning. I love all Christmas stories, but expecially this one. My Dad always read it to us growing up. I couldn't get through it with out crying. My kids weren't quite as touched as me.

I guess that is all my randomness for now. What random things have you been up to lately?

Thanksgiving Day Feast

For Thanksgiving, we were able to travel to St George and enjoy the weekend in my Mom and Dad's new house. My sisters Becky and Shareen and their families were also able to be there. Even with 16 of us in the house, it never felt overly crowded. We had a great time.

My mom spent hours in the kitchen preparing food. We all helped out at different times, but she was alway there. She deserves some sort of medal. She did a great job.

Here is the table set and ready to go. I guess Elizabeth is trying to decide where she wants to sit.Some of the food right before we gave thanks and ate. Mike, Shareen, with Mia in between.

Elizabeth, Kennedy, and Camille. The five little girls were quite the pack over the weekend. They had a great time. My Dad helping with the dishes. Relaxing, watching a little football while the food digests for a minute.

We had a great Thanksgiving. Thanks for hosting and having us, Mom and Dad.

More posts to come of our other adventures. . . .