These are cousins at the "Kid Tables"

Brittany decided to cook a surprise meal for me. I didn't know she had planned any of this because I stayed 2 extra days in Utah after Thanksgiving to finish Christmas shopping. Here are the 5 courses on the menu: We drank homemade wassail, ate homemade cheese ball and crackers, salad, leek soup in a bread bowl, roasted lamb with homemade mint sauce, homemade cheesecake! She cooked this meal all on her own with very minimal assistance. I am so proud of the things she is learning.
Here is our Christmas tree this year. It didn't come out of our mountains for the first time and it isn't a borrowed artificial one, I think it's our most beautiful yet. (The boys weren't posing for me, I just found them this way and had to take a picture!)
Brittany plays the Tenor Saxophone in band, here she is at her first concert.
Brittany is the 3rd from the right. She played the bells several times this season with a hand bell group.