Thursday night was insane. Don't get me wrong I LOVE black Friday shopping and love the deals I get, but what is up with the 10 PM/midnight openings??? I miss when all the stores would wait to open at 3 AM so I could get a little sleep in before the shopping. I didn't crawl into bed for the first time until after 7 AM. But, I am so excited about the deals I got and it was fun despite the not-sleeping.
The rest of the weekend, we played together a lot, Andrew and the girls put up the Christmas lights (yay!), and we went and saw the movie Tangled. I was really sceptical of liking the movie because it's rated PG- but I really liked the movie - it was so cute - and the girls just loved, loved, loved it too. I love our Carolyn and her sweet little heart. During a sad scene, Andrew said Carolyn cried. That just makes me smile. And the fact that Andrew and Carolyn sat and watched the movie together while holding hands the whole time.
On Saturday, Chantal and Dave came over for the game. I won't even mention which game it was because it was just a stupid little game :), but after watching the game we went downtown and looked at Christmas lights. We started this tradition last year and it is so much fun. After looking at Christmas lights downtown, we drive around and look at some houses' lights while listening to Christmas music. So fun :)
I'm going to be so busy with the holidays, I won't be able to blog until after Christmas....but here are some updates on the girlies:Carolyn - I started teaching piano lessons to a girl in my ward a few weeks ago. Carolyn picked up on this and insists on me giving her a piano lesson everyday - which I happily do (I wish I would have learned piano well when I was younger so I hope she continues to love the piano). She loves practicing everyday. All she can do for now is find the notes on the keyboard and play simple songs, but it's fun. She can play Hot Cross Buns really well. She also seems to have Andrew's amazing mathematical brains! She is awesome at simple addition problems - and can figure them out in her all in her head. I was using my fingers to add when I was first learning addition so I don't really get how she just thinks it all up in that brain of hers.
Angela - She is such a little sweetheart. She loves helping everyone and after helping people, she says to herself, "Thank you, me!!" It makes me laugh every time- she's such a little cutie. She also loves to sing, sing, sing. She loves calling people and singing "Happy Birthday" to them. So, if you ever get a message from her singing "Happy Birthday" to you we haven't forgotten what day your bday is, she just loves singing that song.
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