Christmas 2012 Activities

Okay, so this entry is as much for us as it is for you. Here is a list of all the Christmas activities which helped make for us a marvelous, magical, and memorable Noel:

• The Festival of Trees
• Temple Square lights and walking around the very Christmasy City Creek
• The Messiah Sing-In at Abravanel Hall
• The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert with Alfie Boe and Tom Brokow. Oh, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir :). 
• The First Presidency Christmas devotional.
• Black Friday shopping
• Elayna and Aubrey's ballet performance in the Nutcracker 
• The Festival of Lights in Spanish Fork
• BYU's Christmas party
• Christmas at Nauvoo program at BYU
• Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand concert at the Covey Center
• Our ward Christmas party
• Gingerbread house at our great friends, the Wilkins', house
• Elizabeth and I singing in our ward Christmas program
• The Utah County Christmas Craft Show
• Utah County Handbell Ringers concert at the Springville Museum of Art
• Nelson Family Christmas party
• Our regular Christmas Eve dinner and nativity
• Christmas get-together at Dad and Donna's house
• Christmas cards and neighborhood gifts
• The wonderful cadre of Christmas movies
• Non-stop Christmas music
• I was able to do the 12 Days of Christmas for the ninth straight year for Elizabeth and the kids. Have to be creative more and more these days!
• Too much food

It was the best Christmas yet, and we have no doubts that this will be the case again in 2013!