The tail end of summer has been so much fun. The weather has been fantastic and we've all had special occasions to look forward to. First up, a family party for Natalie's softball team that included pizza, whiffle ball, and seeing the girls just have a good time together as a team. Here's my favorite photo from when Michelle helped her friend, A, celebrate her 16th birthday. Although she has been friends with A & Z since her time at the Waldorf school, Michelle ended up hanging out with a lot of strangers and had a wonderful time. I love seeing her branch out and make new connections while maintaining her core friend group. Homecoming week included a BBQ, Powder Puff game and drone show, parade past the middle school where I was volunteering at the Rattler Run, plus a very exciting football game that even Hubby attended by being one of the basketball parents to man the concession stand. Danny did a great job tossing candy instead of throwing it and the basket...
The drive to church on Christmas Eve was gorgeous, helped by snow and that we were heading out for a 10am meeting instead of the usual 9am one. (: Since a visiting grandma took a video of the entire song, I thought it was ok to sneak a quick photo of my children singing Away in the Manger. After church D and M were very excited about the pies from Sprouts they bought with their own money and had to pose with them in front of the Christmas tree.
Somehow my parents got away with not having any nice pictures taken of them when they came over for a fancy dinner and to spend the afternoon and evening with us. My mother did a wonderful job with buying the children presents. I think she tried extra hard since she knew Hubby and I told everyone their Disney cruise was their Christmas present. Thank you, Mom!
The children had a slumber party on our bedroom floor on Christmas Eve and miraculously slept well and didn't wake us up to see their stocking Santa had stuffed until 7am. Lucky us!
My favorite photos -- nice work, Santa.
And the cousins mailed great stuff out from Utah that brought lots of smiles Christmas morning as well.
Meigo came with us to drive around seeing Christmas lights that night. I loved this picture of N and the dog enjoying the family time together.
I have to say N and I mastered GF/DF cut out sugar cookies and GF/DF peanut butter blossoms this Christmas! Next year we want to conquer allergy friendly gingerbread.
The boys put together the puzzle Hubby's grandma mailed to us. She is so good at remembering us. We felt loved and relaxed and grateful for the gift of our Savior this Christmas.
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