We celebrated the December birthdays on the wrong days, as it seems we always must in December, even separating the Birthday Dinner from the Birthday Cake and the Birthday Presents in some cases. But we did celebrate them as best we could! I could hardly spare a moment to marvel about HOW squishy little Malachi grew from a sweet Gussish toddler to a smart, if skeptical, Malachi-ish ADULT. Nor to give in to the sadness that little Gussish Gus will someday be…someone else entirely; no one knows who!
Happy Birthday to the both of them, at any rate!
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What else filled in the cracks of December? Well…we attempted these pasta snowflakes for Family Home Evening one night. I expected them to be…better. It seemed like it would be fun to figure out the symmetry and put them together, but in reality it is very hard to hot glue pasta together in any sort of precise fashion.
Oh well. It was kind of fun, anyway.
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Sitters
Matching backpacks
Matching pajamas
Putting up my mom's Christmas tree for her
Clementine's shark (Finny) and her picture of him with his family
Picture Ziggy drew for Clementine
Elephant convention
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Daisy asked a boy from seminary to the girls' choice Christmas Dance (this picture is of her and Junie consulting about his response) and he was just the WORST. (Junie and I are still mad at him.) He responded lamely when she first asked him ("Who are you?"—rather than "Yes, I would LOVE to go!") and then, after accepting by text, he lamely texted again a week later, "Sorry, I can't get work off." Bad! Even if he couldn't, he could have acted SAD about it. So. Hmmph to him.
BUT, luckily Daisy got the best story out of it, which is as follows:
When the boy first got her poster asking him to the dance, and texted her to figure out who she was (which he should have already known 😡), he said, "If you don't mind my asking, what do you look like?"
But Daisy accidentally read that as "What do you like?" She thought it was a weird question, but finally decided he was asking so he could answer her with a candy poster or something.
So she answered, "You mean, like, candy-wise?"
HAHAHAHAHA. Imagine if you asked someone what they looked like and got that reply?
Anyway, the boy came back with a vague and clearly confused answer. "Yeah, the candy is good."
So then she texted back, "Probably Twix or Milky Way."
And then Junie read through the texts and said, "Daisy, he didn't ask what do you LIKE. He asked what do you LOOK like!" Hahahaha. We were all sitting there in the room with her and we were DYING of laughter. Malachi thought she should have just brazened it out—clarified that she was kind of long and brown and caramelly-looking, and then responded, "And what candy do YOU look like?" But she didn't think the boy would appreciate that humor, and she is probably right. Blast him.
Daisy was super embarrassed for a few minutes, but eventually she couldn't help but laugh too, and then we were all VERY funny about various replies she could have sent and what the boy would have thought of them. It was great fun. (She did eventually text, "Oh haha! Sorry I read that wrong!"—but it was at the same time the boy had sent another text, so he probably never even knew what she was talking about. For all we know he is STILL under the impression that Daisy likes to describe herself using candy. I hope so.)
The happy ending to all this is that Daisy ended up being set up with her friend's nice friend instead, so she still went to the dance and had a great time.
This new boy's mom volunteered to do Daisy's hair and makeup, which was so nice. And I was gone that day so I couldn't have helped Daisy anyway. But, unfortunately Daisy thought the make-up his mom did for her was a little too intense, so she said she ended up feeling more "weird" than "pretty." Ha! But she did look so pretty! (Just like a Twix! Or a Milky Way!) She wore one of my old dresses I wore in college and always liked. So sparkly!
Cute Daisy! I love her! And I love laughing with her!
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And now, some sunsets and sunrises.
This cloud looked like a flying saucer, or a huge eye!
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And a few Christmas lights for good measure! These were at Thanksgiving Point. They have some cool displays there!
I really liked these glowing tulips.
And this starry tunnel.
These changed colors when you walked on them!
This looked like snow flying through the air, and then I was sure it was feathers, and then finally we realized it was foam! Good idea.
These Moroccan Lanterns remind me of a store we liked in Quebec.
There is an interesting "Lehi's Dream" sculpture garden at Thanksgiving Point, culminating at this Tree of Life. I liked a lot of the ideas the sculptor had, even if her conception of Lehi's Dream wasn't quite what I expected.
There was even a little show with jets of fire!
The End.
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