Happy December!

December is flying by and what a crazy month it's been! I came back from Utah to a cold wet Louisiana. It rained for 14 days straight. We had a major flood (worse then when we had the hurricanes last year!) I woke up one morning and the road and field across from my apartment had disappeared and was replaced by a lake. Water got in my car, and it started smelling pretty bad (because I didn't have a sunny day to dry it out :-). Here's a picture of the Bayou. It had risen all the way up to the top of the fence.

For our book club, we read The Christmas Shoes and then went to Barbara's to watch the movie. I cried, of course! The next week was our Relief Society Christmas Party, as well as our Branch Christmas Party. Both were fun. I decorated a table for the RS Party and we did a skit called "The Littlest Elf" I was laughing so hard, my sides hurt! Included in the picture is Stephanie, who was a Babbling Brook, Mary, who was Mrs. Claus, and me, who was a Nodding Flower (yes, that's a flower on my head!)

Morgan, Mary and I.My friend Tina, had her baby on Wed, Dec. 9th. Makayla is a beautiful, healthy, 7 lb. girl...

I was babysitting the 3 Harvey girls when we had the Branch Party and they were excited to see Santa (though Becca refused to sit on his lap!). Here's a picture of Angelle and Emma Claire with Santa.

We had our Annual Staff Christmas Pig Out and I introduced my co-workers to jello salad (the green one with marshmallows). Some weren't impressed and others loved it. And Sarah made this divine stuff called Le Corn (kind of like a big hush puppy with corn, onions, and green chillies). Here's me posing with the chef herself!

One Sat. we had a Baptism in our Branch. Marcus' daughter Myracle, decided to be baptized. We were all so excited for her. Congratulations, Myracle!

My apartment complex also had a Christmas Party, but we ended up in the dark, because the power went out for 2 hours that night! (...I told you it's been a crazy month! :-)

Finally, we finished up Seminary for the year! Yeah, 2 weeks off...and, I'm off the Utah tomorrow.