december partying

1. My siblings always make the best Christmas cards so this year I decided to make one of my own! Including Burns and Kobe of course. Arianne is the best! Thanks so much for making it for us.

2. Next up, emo pics of Burns and me:

3. I was working with one of my Cause and Effect kids at the library and I saw Alex with Nitty and Naves there! Alex was in the process of doing an act of kindness for her 25 days of service. I'm going to do this next year some time. Perhaps for my birthday. They left a toonie and a loonie in a couple books for kids to find. 

4. Lita and I went to Brentwood Ward's Relief Society Christmas Party. We made gingerbread houses. I'm probably the best there is. Exhibit A:

Notice the dead Santa stashed behind the gingerbread man.

5. Because Lita and I sometimes don't work Fridays, we decided to get some breakfast at Cora's.

Again, I wasn't too impressed with their food, especially because my grapes were rotting. Remind me to never go there again, but it was nice to go on a friend/roommate date.

6. Kyler Hudson held a Christmas party at a community centre. It was pretty hoppin'! He had asked Burns and me to play a couple songs. We played the cover that Walk Off the Earth does of "Fairytale of New York" and "Christmas Lights" by Coldplay. One person said we made their night by playing the first song and a different person came up to us and said we made their night by playing the second song haha. Great food, great live music, and so many people came! In fact, no one could hear the live music because all those people were talking so loudly. Burns and I had a good night.

Here is Christine in the process of texting me a picture of Burns and me snuggling. Wait... I never said that cause we don't do that...

7. Denise and Rick are missionaries for the Mandarin Branch and she made all the costumes for a Nativity play they put on. She also asked us to sing a short song. Here are our costumes:

8. There is a girl at the day home I work at and she always plays with my hair. The boy I work with joined in and together they made this masterpiece:

9. According to Wikipedia the world was predicted to come to an end 43 times since I was born. The most recent prediction, December 21, 2012. Here is a picture of 12:12:12:12:12.

10. Burns and I are so famous. We're even in Les Miserables.

11. Burns and I went skating at Bowness Park the other night. Man that place is so great.  

12. Burns always serenades me so passionately with Bach.

13. On Thursday night Burns and I went to the Banff Hot Springs with Rick and Denise for their Christmas prezzy. We all had such a relaxing and great time.

14. Burns got me these babies for Christmas:

It's about time that I got some legit winter boots. Haven't owned any for 5 years.

15. I love skype.

This is me making a chin person smile. Just imagine eyes at the top.

 Burns showing off his hair:

Good times even so far apart.

16. Kobe is such a little stud. Marshie let him borrow his bow tie for the picture.

17. Denise got me this hoodie for Christmas. I'm in love haha.

 18. This is an example of how deep our conversations can get:

19. Dad makes the best breakfasts for us brats. German pancakes this morning.

20. Naves being a cutie pie.

Aaand the boys snowboarding hillbilly style.

I love Christmas time!