December: Week 2

December has enough events that I can break it down! So the first week we had our first Christmas party with the Furch family: Pre-Sun Valley. Derrick, Alex's uncle, and his family go to Sun Valley for Christmas where Derrick produces the musical show for the resort. So we have a party with them before they go. We did dinner and white elephant exchange. Alex insisted he take some old cologne he had gotten a while ago. He thought it would be hilarious. I warned him that someone, like one of his younger cousins Marci, would get it and not understand or appreciate the humor. But, he took it anyways. I took a cheap beach calendar, but cut out a picture of grandpa Furch (at the wedding where he is holding a camera) and put one in each beach picture. So we draw numbers and you can take one from the pile or steal. Soon, it was Marci's turn and she went to the pile and picked a present, which ended up being Alex's smelly cologne. Her face was a mix of confused, disappointed, and unsurity. I felt bad. But Alex's dad stole it from her when it was his turn, and she ended up with a Crush (turtle from Nemo) stuffed animal. And they lived happily ever after.

Later that week, on Saturday, we had a crazy day. We helped with our ward Christmas Breakfast and had to be there at 7:45am to set up. Then, because of a snow storm, I headed down to Provo, (with alex as my driver because of the snow) for Lo's bridal shower at CPK. I did a black pink and white theme, the favors were mini dove chocolate bars wrapped in matching scrapbook paper where the labels would be, and the "game" was that we filled out "coupons" for Lo and McKay to use with each other. It was great. Then I headed back up to Bountiful and went straight to work from 3-7, and headed straight for Salt Lake for the Tab Choir Christmas Concert. Because of Jazz game traffic, we were 2 minutes late and were not able to get in! Bummer. So we went home and watched the game.