Draper Temple Open House

Last Saturday we took the kids to the Draper Temple Open House. It was great. Anthony was even pretty good -- all things considered. But there was one really funny thing he did. When we got there, they gave us a brochure with a few pictures in it. We gave it to Anthony so that he would have something to look at.

Well, when we got to the baptismal font, he was all excited. We couldn't get him to keep walking. He was looking through the brochure. Then he suddenly stopped. He looked at the picture he found, and then he looked at the font, and then he looked at the picture again. Then he turned to me and Shawn and said "Look, it matches." Sure enough, he had found the picture of the baptismal font and thought it was way cool that he was looking at the actual thing.

Christmas!!!

We had a really great Christmas this year. Shawn took a few days off work and we spent a lot of time with family. It was great and relaxing. Here are a few pictures of things we did during the holidays. The first picture is at the Daw family christmas party. Anthony was a shepherd, Julia was Mary, and Collin was a wise man. Aren't they cute?Here are the kids on Christmas morning after they'd opened their presents. They finally decided that they were hungry -- presents first, breakfast second. You have to keep your priorities straight on Christmas.

The Daw family has a tradition of going to Benihana every Christmas. (And believe it or not, we started this tradition before Marcus married Yukie, who is from Japan.) This year we went on New Years Eve. It was a lot of fun, and of course, the food was spectacular. If you've never been, I highly recommend it.

Here's the three kids in front of the Japanese cat in the lobby.