Ward Christmas Party

We had our ward Christmas party this morning.  I know other wards have done this, but for the first time ever, our ward had a breakfast instead of a dinner (or a non-dinner disaster like they did last year...).  I thought it turned out really nice.  There was a breakfast burrito bar, which was fun.  I helped by scrambling 60 eggs this morning before 7:30.  Thankfully, my father-in-law suggested using a large pan to cook them in and it worked great!  I was able to cook 30 eggs at a time.  I would have never thought to use a large (non stick) pan instead of a frying pan.  I'm so glad I asked him!

After breakfast, we sang some songs, which included a live nativity scene--which I single handedly kind of messed up because I got asked last minute to play the piano and I had never played the "Nativity Song" before and didn't realize that there were two more verses not written in the music and I stopped playing before the live nativity was finished.  After several minutes someone let me know that they weren't done yet and there were more verses.  Ooops.  Sorry.  I felt pretty bad.

Then we got a visit from....SANTA!  The kids were so excited.  So excited they could barely contain it and landed themselves in the very back of the line where they had to.  :)

One last unrelated thing.  In this picture, take notice.  Arie's eyes are blue.  Very blue.  It is just crazy to think that they very possibly will still turn brown.  But if she wants her own individual look, like each of her siblings has, she needs to keep the dark hair and blue eyes.  It's the only combination no one has yet.  We'll check back on that in several months...