Christmas Eve

We had an awesome Christmas Eve! My sweetie and I drove south to see Princess and The Frog and their cute little ones. I love driving around with Santa Sweetie!!

He gave each of the kids a gift.

They were so excited!!

Afterward, we drove home where Bossy and Gamer were working on a huge feast!

Drama Queen even made a delicious tres leches cake with tons of berries. Dog Walker made a bunch of cookies. It was a great way to prepare for the jolly old elf to visit.

Merry Christmas, everyone!!

Christmas Adam

Our December 23rd or Christmas Adam as we call it, was absolutely amazing! My sweetie is always looking for something new and different for us to do and this year he outdid himself. Have you ever been axe throwing??

Crafty was the only one of us with any experience, but the assistant at Heber Hachet Axe Throwing in Provo did an awesome job teaching us what to do.

All 8 of us living at home got to play, even Grandpa! As an 85-year-old guy, he impressed us all. He is still very fit and a natural athlete, so I don't know why I was surprised.

After a couple of hours and two tounaments later (Sport and my sweetie were the winners!), we dropped a gift at my sister’s house and then made our way to Texas Roadhouse for dinner.

My kids love that place!

We had planned to see the Festival of Lights in Spanish Fork, but with literally hundreds of cars in line, we opted to just drive around and see what we could see.

Our last stop was for a quick bit of ice cream at Brooker's Founding Flavors in Vineyard. It was our first time there, so Sport put Curly in the stocks...

Silly boys.😉

All in all, my sweetie did a pretty great job with our celebration, don't you think?

Christmas in Color

We had SO much fun at Christmas in Color tonight even though we ended up waiting in line for about 30 minutes to see all the lights since our timeslot had been sold out. 

Bossy's family (except for Gamer) came with us and we were a full van of 12. (Sorry about the bad pic.)

I just realized that I only took 3 actual pics for you since I spent a good part of my time sending Marco Polos to my kids who couldn't be with us. 

I was hoping to brighten things up a little for all of us, but mostly for our sweet Teach who is so far away in New Jersey. Her body has rejected the tiny life they saw on the ultrasound less than 2 weeks ago. We are all grieving with her but we know the Lord has a bigger and better plan for us than we know.

Please send prayers and warm thoughts for her little family.

Hope for the Holidays Tonight on Channel 2 - KUTV (Utah)

Hey, watch this show tonight and keep an eye out for our family! We show up twice; once under the hand-washing challenge and again in the finale with all the tiny zoom cubes. 

Honestly, we haven't seen it yet either, but we have been told that we can be seen in both places. Let me know what you think!