Here it is the 15th of December already and we can't believe it.  Came, Nate, Ellie, Ashton and Ava visited us the first part of the month and it was wonderful to see them!  The first night they came, we watched the news and they said the "big chill" was hitting Southern California and it would be 40 degrees.  They looked at Herriman's weather and it was 0 degrees!  They thought that was really funny.  We walked over to where we walk among the boats, and the kids played on the playground.  Of course, they were the only children there.  We see lots of dogs, but not many children.

 

 Ellie and Ava decorated our little Christmas tree.  They brought us a Christmas tree skirt that the grandkids put their footprints on, Christmas balls they had painted, and our Christmas stockings for our fireplace.  Ashton was so tired - he was asleep.

 

Here we are at the beach.  Ava insisted she not have any clothes on and the kids were playing in the water in their clothes!  It was cold to us, but the kids loved it.  At least it wasn't below zero.

We had one good day to enjoy as much as possible because the wind was going to get really bad.  Here we are driving a duffy boat.  We went to Subway and purchased sandwiches and ate on the boat.

 

We even saw a sealion out in the channel!

We were headed out for a walk and the kids spotted the swimming pool right behind our apartment and they insisted on getting in.  This is the hot tub - because the swimming pool was toooo cold - but they loved it.  Of course, the neighbors thought they were nuts.  It was so warm in the hot tub, that they had to keep getting out to cool down.

 

Our ward - via Rita Penix - sent us Christmas trees she had made for all of the missionaries in the ward.  Then the young women and young men made Christmas ornaments and wrote endearing things on the ornaments.  Thank you Lindon 16th Ward!  We also received a large box of frozen food from a very, very nice neighbor.  It complete filled our freezer and our hearts!  Thank you!!

Here is Elder Ruse showing how much we love the tree.  It was a great idea!  Below is our little decorated apartment.  While Cami and family were here, our TV went black!  We thought we just had free TV and we were getting just a few channels.  Now we had nothing.  However, Cami brought us a DVD player for Christmas with a few hallmark and Ephraims Rescue and so we finally called Time Warner and got the 19.00 cable so we could get the news!  Now we just get about 5 channels.