I had my first Christmas dinner today; turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy and veggies and all the trimmings, and it's only December 01. Yes it was School Board meeting day, and since we only meet this once in December, we had our Christmas feast at the Cardston High School cafeteria. (Private dining room of course - we eat there every board meeting). Cardston High School has an accredited Chef who teaches cooking classes in their commercial kitchen, and it is the cooking students who cook all our meals. We eat very well, as they try out all kinds of great dishes on the Board.

My next Christmas feast is this coming Thursday December 03 at the Welling Ward Christmas party. We're having Turkey dinner followed by a program and Santa's visit. Mom has to take a pan of her fabulous home made stuffing, (weep all ye who will not be there). All I can say is I'd better get some of Moms stuffing and not someone elses.

We got our tree up and decorated last night, and decorations now deck the halls. We are officially Christmassed. We went and put up Grandma Scotts tree and a few decorations last night also. It was actually almost blizzarding on the way home from Magrath. Quite Christmassy in fact.

Cold tonight though, and Mom has gone to song practice again. Steve and Benson went to the Temple again tonight. It's wonderful to see their excitement as they prepare for their missions.

Mallory called from California and she's having a great time on her vacation with the Peacocks. She said it's very nice weather down there.

Also, Cody proposed to Mallory today and she said YES. Life definitely gets more exciting every day. Wedding sometime next summer I think she said. (Maybe the Spring). Everybody wish them well, and we'll get more info when they get home. (Such as HOW, WHERE and all the other proposal details). Did Cody get down on one knee?