1. Girls' night. Jake left with a group of guys to go to the BYU vs UNLV game in Vegas this weekend. With all the snow, and Jake taking the Tahoe I didn't feel much like venturing out by myself. So Josh and Dekker and I holed up here at the house Friday and Saturday. I might have gone nuts except dear Becca (aka Trish) came to hang out with me Saturday night. She brought Kneaders for dinner (yummy!) and we watched Mama Mia and Hairspray! I hadn't seen either. Both were good, but I loved Mama Mia.

2. Josh's Primary performance. Yesterday day at church they had the primary go up and sing two songs as part of the program. Since I'm in senior primary now as a teacher, I walked up there with Josh and all the other kids in both junior and senior primary. Josh was down in front and I was standing about two rows behind him. I started to notice one child's voice practically yelling the words- it wasn't long before I realized it was Josh! He was singing his little heart out, and when he didn't know some of the words he just repeated the ones he did know. I looked out at the audience and realized about 1/2 the congregation was smiling and waving at my son- who was of course waving back. As we were walking back to our seat (way in the back) there were several people who gave Josh "5" and complimented him. When we got back to our row Jake said he could hear Josh all the way in the back. I must have had at least 10 people come up to me and make comments like, "Wow- Josh sure is a performer" or "Josh sure likes to sing" and "What a cute/funny little boy you've got there!". Yeah- my son Josh totally stole the show. I wish I'd had a camcorder because it really was funny.

As a side note, the last time they had a primary performance in sacrament meeting Josh didn't sing a word- although he did do plenty of smiling and thumbs up signing- and because it was an entire program- got tired and fell asleep on his teacher's lap at the end.

3. A new Christmas tradition. Last night Trish introduced us to a new holiday tradition. She brought over Keebler's Grasshopper cookies. We made hot chocolate and she showed us how to bite a little piece off of two sides of the cookie, hold it in your mouth while you dip and then sipt hot cocoa through the cookie and then quickly pull the entire cookie into you mouth where it melts into heavenly goodness. Wow- it is quite the treat. It will definetly be a Christmas time treat for us from now on.