Christmas 2023

We only had an hour of church on Christmas Eve so our traditions started right after church. Decorating cookies was first up! I love the minion cookie!

Some cuddles and naps happened before we moved on. Jilly just thinks shes a small little dog and will squeeze into any hole she can find whenever we are touching. 

Dinner was our typical fondue night! I love this tradition. Everyone helped this year and that was so nice. 

Later that night, the magic happened! 

Our tree was stunning this year and gave off the most beautiful white light. 

I know our kids didn't sleep much but I appreciate they let me sleep till at least 6! Stocking time!

J even walked away with some goodie! Look at her in her cute jammies!

Present time!

Jilly got a blanket and she would not move off of it for so long!  I think she loved it!

Troomi phones were the hit of the holiday this year. 

Carter and Mollies faces were hilarious when she opened a Gabb Phone! (It was actually Carter's old one since they got new ones!)

Carter couldn't wait to try on his clip shoes and put his new plate on his bike. 

The rest of the day was spent crafting and building legos. 

Chad and I got some goodies too!

Dinner was steak and pasta! Delicious!

 Merry Christmas to my family. You are so special to me and I love celebrating this season with you!

December Things

My mom surprised me and sent me a cute christmas sweater. She has one too!

Jilly always gets plenty of snuggling with the girls. I always laugh when she's wrapped in my blanket. Its hard to tell where she begins and the blanket ends!

Rylee loves wrapping presents and wrapped anything she could find! 

I went to an ornament exchange party. Eveyone brought a charcuterie board of a certain color! We needed about 100 more people to help eat the food everyone brought! It was so fun to see what people came up with! And I walked away with a pickle ornament. 

I hung it right below our tooele temple ornament!

We took our kids to the movies with the fancy recliners. They were in heaven. 

Many puzzles were done this month!

An advent puzzle was a highlight of the season. 

Chippy got into some mischief!

G&G Hymas did the twelve days of christmas for us. It was so fun! On this day we opened blankets! There were many other fun things such as flash lights, freeze dried goods, scones and more. A highlight was a book on the final night with their testimonies in them. Chad and I both wept as we read to our children. It was a very special gift!

The best we could do for a family pic this year!

Cute Brielle with her friend, lucy. 

I love this time of year and the traditions and special feelings it brings. I love Christ and that he gives us this beautiful season to celebrate. 
 

Parties and things

This year for a service project we decided to do snack packs for kids in our community. We were able to put together over 100 packs with help from our friends and neighbors. We were humbled as we delivered them and were told how great this need was. I know its a drop in a bucket, but I hope our small effort was able to bless someone!

We really had fun putting them together. 

The ward chirstmas party happened. Prime rib for adults and dino nuggets for the kids. Complete with Chubbys mac n cheese! Yum! How cute is this table of teenagers?!

And I loved the Primary kids singing. A favorite of mine. 

We held a soccer party at the new Ken's Gym. A good time was had by all! Even though they wouldn't look at the camera!

Family night out!

Brielle played her recorder at a school assembly too. She loved playing that thing and would practice often and was pretty good at it!

 

Brielle is 10!

Brielle also wanted a glow party for her 10th birthday! So we piled into Rage again and partied!

This age group of kids had lots more fun I think than Mollie's group, although they did have fun. These one's didn't want the party to stop. 

She had cupcakes and drinks and a gummy glow stick for her friends to take on the road!

Holy candy!

Cute girls who went a little crazy 

The dance party was a hit. Especially for Taysom!

She was spoiled with lots of gifts! Happy birthday cute Bri! We love you lots!!

 

Stansbury/Rage Showcase

The girls had their first official Rage team performance! Its been very exciting being part of a new gym and getting new outfits and being all sparkly! 

They did so well and it was fun watching my girls perform together!

Great job girls! Love you!

 

Here's some cute shots from Rage.