THE DAYTON FAMILY

This Christmas was so incredibly wonderful! We started out by going to the Las Vegas Bowl on Saturday with my little brother and sister. BYU barely pulled off a 17 to 16 win by blocking a field goal with 3 seconds left in the game - it was so exciting! While we were in Vegas we ate at a buffet and a cafe in The Paris Hotel-gotta love Vegas food. We also helped David's sister Sara and her husband when they realized that the auto shop had not replaced their oil cap when they filled it up, so they had lost all of their oil. We randomly called them to stop for lunch with us in Vegas on their way out to California, and had they not stopped, they wouldn't have known and the engine would have seized up out in the middle of nowhere. So - it was VERY lucky that they stopped and also that we were able to go pick up oil and a new cap for them, it was also lucky that we made it to kick off on time after helping them. :-) Both of our mothers were in charge of the Christmas programs in their...

I'm so excited for Christmas - and it's only one week from today! We've had our tree for a couple of weeks - but I just barely took a picture of it. This last weekend we went to a fun Couples Christmas Party at Kyle and Rebecca Laws' home. Rebecca made lots of homemade sweets and we played some fun games together - in one of the games I won a key chain and David won a pair of earrings - we switched of course. :-)

David has been wanting to win an intramural tournament for all of his years at BYU. He sets up a football team every fall and winter semester, plays on a softball team during the spring and summer semesters, and organizes his favorite -a basketball team - during winter semester. Last year he came SO close with his basketball team making it to the final 4 out of more than 200 teams before they lost. Ironically, this semester he decided to play on our ward's ultimate frisbee team for fun - and that is how he became an intramural champion!

This past weekend, it snowed for the first time this Holiday Season. It was so beautiful, but quite scary to drive in. We spent Saturday afternoon through Sunday afternoon at the Peterson home so that we could watch the BYU game on a big TV. We took a family picture for their Christmas card, and although it turned out great with the snowy mountains in the back, we had to stand out in the middle of the snow-covered deck for a while posing for the self-timer on the camera. It was pretty freezing! We also went up to the Christmas Devotional on Sunday evening with the Dayton family. It was so wonderful and Christmas-y!!!