Christmas music and plays

I put together a night of Christmas music. Here's a picture from it. Mark and I both played a few piano pieces and I asked my friend Kathryn and Jared to play a couple numbers. Kathryn was a piano major at the U and Jared is a violinist. I did an arrangement of Silent Night with me on the piano and Jared playing the violin. It was nice to do it with Jared because he likes to play by ear. So I didn't have to spend hours writing it all out, I just told him what I wanted him to play. :) It was awesome. I'm so glad the night actually all came together. It really helped me progress to have something to work toward. It might become a tradition for us since music is one of my favorite ways to celebrate and bring the Spirit of Christmas.

Mark and his brother Mike were in a Christmas play called "Christmas Without Mr. C" They were the mysterious travelers. They were hilarious. In the play Santa decides he's going to take Christmas off because he's tired of kids being so ungrateful and greedy. So, he's going to go to the Bahamas instead. But one little boy realizes he forgot to mail his thank-you note to Santa the year before so he goes all the way to the North Pole to get it to Santa in time. He meets the travelers at multiple spots along the way. So, Mark and Mike came out as different people with a different accent each time. They made their characters very funny with lots of little jokes. There were about 40 kids in the play, which included all of Mike and Tami's kids. It was very cute. Tami directed the music for it. I got a little clip of Mike and Mark's awesome Russian dance.

Peek-a-boo & Kindermusik

I LOVE Brynli's laugh. Here's a little taste of how cute she is.
Caleb has a lot of fun at Kindermusik. It's really fun to watch him. Occasionally he likes to sing this song around the house.

November 08

Ha ha, I guess I better post the month of November before December is over.

I went to a wonderful doula conference the first weekend in November. It was great to associate with other Utah doulas and be inspired. A few of us went to dinner after and ended up talking for hours. Pretty crazy, but fun.

Our Stake volleyball team played in regions the first couple weeks of November. It was SO fun! We ended up forfeiting a game the first Saturday because they didn't tell us we had another game, so no one showed up. So we had to work our way through the loser's bracket. These were some intense, very exciting games. On the next Saturday we played about five sets of games. We played from 11:00 to about 5:00. Some of the games were scary and we were trying to catch up from behind, but we ended up winning everyone and took 1st place! Wa hoo! Mark and the kids had fun watching on Saturday, but we actually didn't get any pictures. Bummer.
Later that night we went to a work dinner for the finance department. I discovered that I actually know some of the wives of the husbands who work with Mark. It was kind of funny because I thought they looked like other people I know. After talking with them I realized who they were and why they looked familiar to me!
We went bowling for family home evening. Caleb was hilarious. He liked to throw the ball, run away, and then turn around and watch it. He got pretty excited when the pins fell over. Mark went bowling with the Elders Quorum a few nights before. One of the guys let Mark use his ball and Mark bowled a 192!


I went to see Twilight with Lyndi. A lady rented out a theatre at Gateway and sold the tickets to friends and friends of friends. The whole theatre was full of women, pretty funny. She gave a little gift bag to everyone. One of the gifts was a Cullen necklace ha ha. I missed a lot of the first part of the movie because there were 2 accidents on I 15 and I 215 was closed because of an accident. But what I did see they did a good job. The best part for me though was getting to talk to Lyndi for a while after. I didn't take pictures of Thanksgiving, but we had a really great Thanksgiving at my parent's house with almost all of my family.


The extended Weaver family has a Christmas get together the Saturday after Thanksgiving for whoever can make it. We do a little gift exchange and play volleyball. It was so fun. Here's some pictures of Caleb and Brynli opening their presents. Our cousin Debbie gave us a great present of the Proclamation on the family with a bunch of our family's pictures as a border around it. I really like it. :) We watched part of Kung Fu Panda after the party with John and Michelle's family. Now Caleb will randomly do the I love Kung Fuuuu (with his head stretched up in the air). And then Brynli does it, which is so funny to watch.
Check back in a few days because I have a couple cute videos of Caleb and Brynli I'm going to post. :)

Christmas Tree

We bought a Christmas tree and decorated it for family home evening on Monday. I have been so excited for Christmas! I love Christmas time. It's even more fun because I'm so excited to give Caleb and Brynli a couple presents that I know they'll really enjoy.

It is not the days but moments that will capture your heart forever.

"Few things can transform us as quickly as the presence of a child." - Tobin Hart

"When God wants a great work done in the world or a great wrong righted, he goes about it in a very unusual way. He doesn't stir up his earthquakes or send forth his thunderbolts. Instead, He has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a simple home of some obscure mother. And then God puts the idea into the mother's heart, and she puts it into the baby's mind. And then God waits. The greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies." - E.T.Sullivan

I am so thankful that Heavenly Father sent His son for us and I am so thankful for the precious gifts my children are to me.