A week of "Christmasing" around here......

This is one of the cute gifts that Jena received from her annual "Girls Christmas Party".  This party is with girls from her Special Olympics Comets team.  There are 12 of them and they have dinner, play games and exchange gifts--you get 12 of the same thing to pass out.  Jena had a great time.

 Here is the goodie bag she returned home with.

That was on Tuesday night and while she was partying in Layton, Gary and I drove down to Provo to have a family Christmas dinner with Ben and the others from his unit at the State Hospital.  We had ham and the usual Christmas stuff.  It was nice to meet some of the staff that Ben is around.

Wednesday night, Jena and the other students from Wonderwood performed at the Encore Orchestra event in Farmington.  They played on their xylophones--"Deck the Halls".  The rest of the performance was done by a youth orchestra which was very entertaining with some great Christmas music.  It was a fun event.  (We didn't buy tickets for any Christmas theatre or music concerts because we weren't sure when Zander would arrive, so it was nice to attend one concert.)

Russell and Jena enjoying the concert after they performed.

 Thursday I had my "company party" with The Children' Center which was fun.  I brought the balloons in a big box which was again a big hit.

Friday, Jena performed again with the Vista Harmonics, which is the choir at her school.  Singing with elastics on your braces isn't an easy task, but Jena loved it.

Saturday Jena and Gary had a Christmas party at bowling where Jena told me that she told Santa she wanted a guitar case (news to me!).  Then Saturday night we headed to Provo for a quick visit with Ben and then joined our friends for a Christmas party at Dan and Eileen Bradford's (again my white elephant gift was the balloons).  The Bradfords are friends from Hong Kong and this was a group of people mostly from Hong Kong.  Only a few were from our time in Hong Kong, but many of the women I have met over the years at our summer HK women luncheon.

Sunday, Jena and I got to spend time with these cute Sunbeams and talk about the birth of Jesus.

It doesn't get much better than that!