I got the chance to sing at the State Capitol

With my UVSC choir. It was a neat experience, especially since I had never had it. Some of my kids had with their school choirs. The new renovations are beautiful to say the least. Eddie and I got the chance to go together and enjoy seeing all the historical aspects of the building. It was a show youreself around type tour. Such a beautiful building. We think we will take the kids up for a tour sometime soon.

Buss family Christmas party

This was from our Buss family Christmas party. I know, I know.....it has taken me a bit longer than I wanted but here they are. Thanks to our gracious host and hostess, my brother Rob and his wife Edy, we had a blast!

Back to school

The kids and I are back to school and all is going well. I love this new semester. I'm taking:
Advanced Music Theory
Acapella
Private Piano lessons
Intro to Social Work
and an institute class.

It snowed a ton today and the kids are out basking in the snow. Rolling, sliding, jumping and all out having a blast. It was interesting getting to school this morning early because it was still snowing and the roads were pretty bad, but thank goodness for 4 wheel drive. I made it without any problems and by the time I finished school the roads looked good. Then I came home and put my muscles into shoveling all this white beauty.

Our Simmons family dinner...

We enjoyed a nice get together for Christmas. We chowed down on Chili, baked potatoe bar, grandma's famous mexican dip,cornbread, donuts and much much more. It was so fun to see everyone. The only one's we were missing were James and Ashley. My niece and nephew. But the kids had a fun time with their cousins, as you can see in the older kids pics making funny faces with grandma. After food and visiting, we went and saw the Holdman Christmas lights in P.G. They were awesome. Here's the link if you're interested in stopping by.

http://www.holdman.com/christmas/

We loved it and ended up taking a family pic in front of the home.

Last Monday night we went to the city lighting of the lights ceremony and our school choir got to carol along the street as the candy windows were revealed. It was a really fun night except Ashleigh and Kiri had to work so we missed out on having them with us.

We walked along the streets and admired the beautiful, and I mean BEAUTIFUL exhibits of candy. We got treated to Hot chocolate and cookies along the way. They also had fire pits to keep us warm all down Center Street. All of the picture don't even come close to showing all the different kinds of candies used or even the detail, but believe me when I say, they were incredible. The balloon ride took first place and it weighed over 200 lbs. They told us they had been working on it since March. All the backround and ground were also covered in candy with sparkling lights to represent city lights. On another one, the red horse was made so good and the green candies were the ground and the blue background was all candy. You can see Emma, William, and Gracie's reflections in the window which reminded me of how much this holiday is so fun for children. I think my sister Kim would love the girl sleeping in the bed because of the quilt. It was made so incredibly well.

The candy windows will be on display until New Years on Center Street in Provo. Take the kids if you get a chance.