Us Arizonans love a chance to get dressed up for the "Cold". Make fun of us all you want but it is easy for your body to be so confused when your day goes like this: (From Lindsay's perspective:) Get dropped off at school when it is 36 degrees and wait outside playing and then in line for her class. Start the day with a hat, gloves, and a coat. Gradually drop layers thru the day's recess times to just a cardigan sweater to no outerwear at all. Come home after school to ride bikes with friends and change into play clothes appropriate for the temperature of about 70 degrees: shorts and a t-shirt. Get ready to go to the Temple Lights and mommy keeps saying to dress warm and bring jackets, hats, gloves, etc. Get steps away from the car, having thought she didn't need the cold weather stuff, only to ask us to open the van again so she can get them! Thru the night, the temperature dropped from 57 to 48 so it was getting colder and colder. Yup, our bodies are jacked up and confused by our winter weather. Caroline, well, she just does what Caroline wants. Her layers were on and off several times.
Every year we go to the Mesa LDS Temple to see the beautiful Christmas lights, concerts, and nativity display. We went on Tuesday night and watched a dance concert of a lyrical dance company dancing the nativity story - it was beautiful and the girls were entranced, especially Caroline. Lindsay was ready to bug out and see the lights and Caroline wanted to keep watching.
We always go into the Temple visitor center to hear the presentation with the Christus statue, a beautifully recorded narration of scriptures about Jesus Christ. The kids always enjoy this, no matter how many times we have seen it. Then we went to watch the brief movie "Luke 2" - a short film (under 10 minutes) set in the time period on the birth of the Savior.
The nativity "creche" is beautiful and actually spans several parts of the grounds, from Isaiah writing what became his Old Testament Prophecies of Christ's birth to the shepherds seeing the star to the manger with its lifelike depiction of Mary, Joseph and the animals. This is always the last thing we look at as it really helps us to feel the true spirit of the season.
Every year we go to the Mesa LDS Temple to see the beautiful Christmas lights, concerts, and nativity display. We went on Tuesday night and watched a dance concert of a lyrical dance company dancing the nativity story - it was beautiful and the girls were entranced, especially Caroline. Lindsay was ready to bug out and see the lights and Caroline wanted to keep watching.
We always go into the Temple visitor center to hear the presentation with the Christus statue, a beautifully recorded narration of scriptures about Jesus Christ. The kids always enjoy this, no matter how many times we have seen it. Then we went to watch the brief movie "Luke 2" - a short film (under 10 minutes) set in the time period on the birth of the Savior.
The nativity "creche" is beautiful and actually spans several parts of the grounds, from Isaiah writing what became his Old Testament Prophecies of Christ's birth to the shepherds seeing the star to the manger with its lifelike depiction of Mary, Joseph and the animals. This is always the last thing we look at as it really helps us to feel the true spirit of the season.
5 comments:
What dance company was it?
I don't know - we got there late and didn't see the schedule. We thought of you!!
I just looked it up - it was called the Mesa Christian Dance Company.
How fun! I can't believe how much the temperature changes during the day! That would be so crazy...but the 70 degrees sounds awfully nice right now! :)
Love the hats and scarves!
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