BACA Christmas

Every year there is a house that turns itself into a Disney castle with the cast of Phineas and Ferb and Santa comes to raise money for the BACA club.  Bikers Against Child Abuse.  We love them.  Always have, always will.  They have done so much good for so many people.  We love this house.  It is adorable.

It's a winter wonderland!

The really neat thing about it is that the lights move to the Disney music it plays and it also has bubbles, lasers and smoke for special effects.  It's really cool.

 There was a huge line of bikes.  It was really cool.  I just wish there was a street lamp there so this picture would have shown them better.  

 

This was one of  Santa's helpers directing traffic.  It was awesome!

Christmas Concerts

Right after we got back from Lehi all the Christmas festivities began.  David had his choir concert in the park with the annual lighting of the city Christmas tree.

 After they sang there, they went down the street to one of the historical houses and had a concert there as well.  David stood next to Tallen the entire time.  Tallen is a friend of Ben's and in his class at school but is a little on the shorter side.  He's in 5th grade and David's in 3rd.  We like Tallen.  He's a good kid.

The girls in front of them did not like them at all.  Especially Princess in the pink hat.  I don't think she likes anyone.

They goofed off  a little but when it came time to sing they did a great job!

 Next was Josh and Sophie's Christmas Band Concert at PVHS.  They get to decorate their instruments and wear a Santa hat if they wish to.  Josh had fun with it.  He plugged himself into the nearest outlet and played his heart out.  It was awesome.  Sophie tied curling ribbon all around her flute and put a big bow on the end of it.  It was darling.  I didn't get a picture of it or her even playing because Joel and I had bought tickets a month before for the Forgotten Carols and the kids didn't even know when there concert was until the week before.  At this concert they have the regular bands plus each Jazz band plays and the Jazz band played first otherwise we would have been able to see her play a couple songs before we had to go.

When they were done Sophie was waiting to helping him off stage.   Best buddies.

 Merry Christmas!

Hutchings Museum

The day after Thanksgiving we went to explore the Hutchings Museum with Grandpa.  I hadn't been inside of there for about 20 years.  It was Family Week in Lehi and admission was free with a canned good.  So Grandma loaded us up and away we went.

Here we are with our cans before we went in.
Back row: C.J., Jake, Josh, Joel, Grandpa Shelton and Issac Lucero
Middle row: Sophie, Shayne, Abby
Front row: Tyler, Ben, David, Jenna and Jesse Lucero.   Not in photo: Me.

Sophie and Shayne in front of the butterfly display.  It was beautiful.  Joel with a huge Golden Eagle.

 This was the best picture in there.  It is of the old Mercur Mine that my Grandpa Shelton worked in.  They had a big mining display that was really neat.

Dinosaur display.  It represented the different bones found in the Lehi area.

 This is a playback machine that once belonged to James E. Talmage.  You can read that card attached to it.  It is really cool.

We also found this awesome Mustache Cup. So we took a picture and sent it to Ashley and told her that she needed to find one for Brad.

Then we got to the Mormon Pioneer room and Grandpa gathered everyone around to tell us a cool story of our relative that ran the Pony Express.   Grandpa knows his History!

I loved this Porter Rockwell wall.  It was awesome.  It had all sorts of pictures and quotes about him.

The old jail cells were down in the part also and we had a good laugh at the sign.  We had no idea that Lehi had such a sketchy past.  A BROAD array of skulduggery went on...not just a little bit.  Scary!

They also had this neat old poster hanging up with all of the outlaws on it.

The last place was the Indian room and Ben was nearly eaten alive.  It was a close call.  While Shayne and Sophie played on the Indian war drums.

It was a fun trip down memory lane and a fun new trip for everyone else.  I'm glad my kids were able to go through.

Walking back down the street to my parents house we saw this gorgeous thing.  One of my favorite things to see.

I just have to add these wonderful fridge magnets into this blog.  My mother always has the best things on her fridge.

She use to have one that said, "My friend said I needed to get in shape and I told her, "Round is a shape!""

When we got back inside Grandma's Katie was there!  She hadn't been able to come down from college yet so it was good to see her.