A Holiday Spectacular!

On Saturday we had the annual "Ugly Sweater" party over at Alpine Meadows with all of Matt's friends and their wives. Our friends Brynn and Andrew hosted it and did an amazing job. They had picked a family from the Angel Tree and asked us to buy them gifts for Christmas this year. This family has a two year old daughter that has been through Chemotherapy twice. I think they said that she has cancerous cells in her brain stem. Matt and I were assigned to buy gifts for her older 17 year old sister. We went to AE the night before and bought her some jeans, and a bunch of sweaters, and some boots. Matt thought it would be cute too if we bought her "17 Again".

Before the "get together" started we all drove over to the family's house and dropped off our gifts and also wished them a Merry Christmas. There were so many of us that crammed into their living room. I think it scared the little one because she saw us and ran to her mom and held on to her for dear life. They were so greatful for us being able to help them this year. The oldest girl and her mom had started crying and at that moment I had felt the spirit enter the room. I'm so greatful that we were able to do this again this year.

Here's some pics of us in our ugly sweaters. I actually forgot mine at home. (It was an ugly BYU sweater. )

This is my yummy soup that I made for the first time. Don't want to brag or anything, but this soup was amazing. j/k. Thanks Kirstin for the recipe!