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This has been a very busy last couple of days, but a very fun past couple of days too. Sunday was crazy! We had our Christmas program in Sacrament meeting, and it went so well! I was so proud of my choir for the hard work they put in. I think a lot of them were not used to singing music that hard, but all of them rose to the challenge and it was a success. The choir sang "Still, Still, Still", "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks" (with flute), and "Baby, What You Goin' to Be?". We're up to about 25 people now, which is great! The men also sang "Far, Far Away on Judea's Plains" and the women sang "Lullaby". I also had 2 girls do a duet, "Angels We Have Heard on High" and Jeremy and I sang "Were You There?" (which was another miracle. He has been really sick for the past week or so and Saturday he could hardly make a sound. But, he sang on Sunday and it worked out great!). I had a bass in the choir do the narrations and we just had one speaker, the bishop. It was perfect. I was happy and so pleased. We ended right on time and everything was just as I had dreamed it to be. My prayers were answered!

So our church is at 9:00 and I had the women of the choir get there at 8:00 (we needed an extra rehearsal for our song) and the rest of the choir came at 8:30. So then we had church and came home and then we left at 3:00 to go down to Springville where I sang in a Messiah thing. It was so fun. I love singing with great singers! It was pretty much all people who have been in BYU Singers at some time and a lot of them studied voice in a masters or something, so they are all really good. It was amazing. We sang at the Springville Art Museum and Jeremy said we filled the entire museum. We were singing on the 2nd floor and he went to get something out of the car while we were warming up and he could here us at the front door. So we sang "And the Glory of the Lord", "Glory to God", "For Unto Us a Child is Born" (which I had never sung with a group that could do all the melismas beautifully, it was awesome!) and of course "Hallelujah". There were also some fantastic soloists. I accompanied for "And who may abide the day of his coming" (so hard, never again will I play that), "Rejoice" and "He Shall Feed His Flock/Come Unto Him". It was really fun.

So that ended at 6:00 and then we rushed back up to Sandy for our Stake Music Fireside at 7:00. The choir was singing a song for that and the men were doing their song, so we needed to be there. It was a crazy day! But most of the choir came, so it was another success!

Then last night we (as in Jeremy and I and the ward choir) sang our program at a Convalescent Home in our ward and then had everyone over to our house after. So I was busy cookin' and cleanin' up a storm yesterday! We had hot wassail, english toffee, snowball cookies, hello-dollies, zucchini bread, and pumpkin bread. Whew! But it was great and I think everyone had a really nice time. Our house looked so festive with our Christmas decor and our fire going. I forgot to take a picture of all the food and everything out, but I made up a plate for my neighbor so here's the sweetened condensed version of our goodies:
And here's our toffee. We were so proud. We made a batch Saturday night and then made another one Sunday night. Our first time and they both turned out really well. Mmmmm, we love toffee!
One last thing. I feel very grateful for heaters and shelter at this time of year. It has been getting very very cold here lately and it's been snowing since Saturday morning. Here's a little look at the weather forecast for the next few days. Yikes!

Today	Tomorrow	Thu	Fri	Sat
Snow Showers	AM Snow Showers	Partly Cloudy	Few Snow Showers	Partly Cloudy
High: 28° Low: 16°	High: 26° Low: 16°	High: 26° Low: 22°	High: 26° Low: 14°	High: 19° Low: 6°

Glad we're leaving on Saturday! It's rough when it never gets above freezing. We stocked up on "Ice Melt" on Saturday and we've already used quite a bit on on our driveway and walkway. Burrr!!!