The Nephite Christmas Story

The kids wanted a snack before bed, so we played restaurant. Abby had a piece of toast with butter and honey. Alex had a toasted peanut butter and honey sandwich. They both had water to drink.

While they were eating I told them about the Nephite Christmas story, starting with Samuel the Lamanite.

"You can't stand on the wall," Alex laughed, pointing to the nearest wall. "Unless you are a spider," he motioned with his crawling fingers.

"Ok," I said. "He stood on a fence then."

"A really tall fence?", Alex questioned.

"Yes."

"A really, really tall fence?"

"Yes." I said, and then he allowed me to go on with the story.

What a funny kid.

We went downtown last night, along with Tyler and Melissa. We got a bite to eat at JB's before heading over to temple square to see the lights.

The kids had a lot of fun, up until they started to get frozen, then we headed directly back to the van.

When talking with the kids before putting them to bed, they both mentioned that seeing the nativity was there favorite part.

They love to play "Mary and Jofes" with our nativity sets. It has kept them entertained for ours during this Christmas season.

We took them to Target today to buy gifts for each other. It was fun. It did't take more than a few hours though before Alex told Abby what he got for her.

I was trying to teach him about surprises telling him that one the secret is out the surprise is over. I said that I liked to surprise Mommy, like the other day I took her out on a date to Abravanel Hall for a Christmas Spiritual Orchestra concert. (It was a lot of fun, even though we were way out of our demographic. We will definitely go again.)

Alex wondered - "When you were a little boy and mommy was a little girl did you get her a present and then tell your sister?"

LOL.