Family Night or Bust!

Well, tonight it was kind of... bust, I guess. See, I had these great plans to take our Family Home Evening on the road, and go on a hike up the San Tans. With all of this rain, I'm sure that it is so beautiful and green, and Elaina is 8 weeks now, and I'm feeling like finally I could maybe survive it physically, and I just thought it would be such a fun outing. Well, Scott got home later than planned, and we were so slow getting ourselves out the door, that by the time we were actually on the road we had less than an hour of daylight left, and we still had to get gas. So, we took our "picnic" (yummy and cheap hamburgers from this odd gas station in town that has this Hispanic lady running a grill behind the counter - but that's another post entirely) to the library and I ate and fed Elaina in the car while Scott and the kids ate outside on the benches in the dark (thankfully the kids had brought flashlights for the hike, so they came in handy). What family togetherness! We finished eating with about 30 minutes to spare before the library closed. So we hustled in and barely had time to find our 5 books each and were the last to leave. Best laid plans...

So instead of posting gorgeous pictures of us in the rainy season desert, you'll have to settle for some shots of my kids' Christmas Graham Cracker Houses! Yes, I know that is totally, obnoxiously random... but don't we all just love it when someone posts holiday pics 2 months later? Josh was just today heard still playing his masterful rendition of "Carol of the Bells", so I figured it must be fate! ... So let's just say that the Christmas Spirit is still lingering here at the Jensen abode...