December in Review

As you can tell I've had a hard time keeping up on this blogging business this month. So I'm doing a review of the month all at once. Except I will post Christmas later. I forgot my camera Christmas Eve and I borrowed a camera so now I'm waiting for those pictures to be e-mailed to me.
Anyway.................here's the Crazy Combes month...........

CHRISTMAS SYMPHONY

Willow, Carly, Jami, Cole, & Todd at the Christmas symphony. Every year we go to the Utah Symphony's Christmas performance and we really enjoy it. We've done this for about 9 years, give or take a year.

Willow and Carly with Santa before the symphony.

Jami and Cole with Santa. We couldn't get Todd to sit with Santa.

FEEDING HORSES

One evening Clint & I went to measure windows and the gal whose home we went to had horses. We had taken Jami & Zandra with us since it was someone that we knew and so here are a couple of pics of J & Z feeding the horses. I'm not sure if the horse ate Jami's hand or if Jami was cleaning out the horses nose. Either way it's pretty sick.

Zandra's turn.
Do you think the girls need to hold out their hands a little more? Big Red thinks so.

DECEMBER PIANO RECITAL

Cole with his Level 6 award around his neck.

Jami posing for her photo.
Jami waiting for her turn. Jami played the Theme from Batman, and Jingle Bells with her piano group. She really did a great job.

Cole played Christmas Fantasia. He has really made a lot of progress. I leaned over to my mom during Cole's song and said, "Can you believe that kid is my son and he is playing that music from memory?" You see I took piano for quite a few years and had one heck of a time ever memorizing a song, let alone playing in front of an audience. Maybe it has something to do with practicing.

Cole receiving his award.

The kids and their grandparents after the recital. Their grandparents are always there to support them in all of their activities. We are really lucky!
SANTA'S REINDEER

One Saturday we went to the Quilted Bear in Midvale and saw Santa's reindeer, along with Santa. My sister and her girls went, along with my brother Duane and his girls, I picked up my brother Lance's 2 girls on our way down, and we also had cousin Todd with us. Then Clint's sister Shannon and her boys met us there so we really had a crowd. It was a lot of fun to be with so many cousins AND Santa!

The girls looking at the reindeer.

Here's a picture of the whole crew. Minus a couple of the adults.

More watching the reindeer.

Kelsey and Kenna with Santa. Kenna did NOT like this one bit. She doesn't like men in general (except her grandpas) never mind a man looking like this!

Cole & J with Santa.

One of the reindeer, I'm not sure which one, um I wanna say, Prancer.

Combe cousins, Rory, Todd, Jami, Cole, & Kellen.

Some of the Dearden cousins, Jami, Kenna, Annie, Avery, Cole, Kelsey, & Ashley. Funny how Cole is the only boy here and Jami is the only girl with the Combe cousins.

Combe cousins again.

TREE DECORATING

Jami and mom decorating the tree.

Cole & Waffles hanging ornaments. Waffles had to make sure he did not miss a thing, he was always right where he was in the way.

DADDY DAUGHTER DINNER

Every year Jami's dance studio has a Daddy Daughter Dinner in December. Jami & Clint didn't go last year but Jami made sure I got them on the list for this year. Jami was really looking forward to this and Clint was a little nervous that the date wouldn't be up to her expectations. Not to worry Jami had a great time, she really enjoys this one on one time with her dad. And she loves to dress up.

All ready for the ball...........