Highlights Week 50

 We did our best to celebrate Matthew's birthday on Sunday. He opened some presents in the morning, then he went to do a bishopric training. We met up with him at church, but not long after he had a meeting down at the stake center. Once he was done with all his church responsibilities, we celebrated with a delicious dinner of brats, kettle chips, and Boston creme pie. In the evening we did a bit more caroling.

Mercy woke up vomiting on Monday, which was super inconvenient because I was scheduled to get my braces off at 9:20am and Matthew was already off to work and had meetings he couldn't miss. If I wanted to reschedule the appointment, I'd have to wait until February, which did not sound awesome. I called just about everyone I could think of and finally Kaitlyn Brown was able to come sit with Mercy and I was only 5 minutes late to the orthodontist. I got my braces off and everything worked out, but boy was it a stressful morning!

I started not feeling well on Wednesday and canceled a lunch I had planned with Mindy. I managed to take Hyrum to his orthodontist appointment and go to Abraham's band concert, but was sick enough the next two days that I opened up the seminary assessment so the kids could take it online instead of in person and canceled our end of year breakfast.

 By Friday I was feeling better and the whole family was able to go to the stake youth ice skating activity.

The other main highlight from this week was Mercy getting glasses. She only needs them for reading and computer work and she's not quite sure how she feels about them yet, but she was mildly excited to join the rest of us 4-eyes. 

There was also plenty of holiday cheer with Christmas sweater day at school, macaroons to hand out while caroling, and candy cane milkshakes.