The Rest of 2019

Madeline gave Todd a drill press for Christmas.  Some day he'd like to get a bigger one.  :)

 I took my little boys on a date to Coconut Kenny's while the other people went to Star Wars.  We had fun!

My cute kiddos watching something ...

 New Year's Eve was a fun fun day.  We had Yorkshire puddings for dinner made by Grandpa and Madeline

Some with beef stew

 Some with cinnamon whipped honey and jams.  Mmmmmm

We had hot chocolate with these fancy hot chocolate toppers

 and of course bubbly

and before bed, a dance party with light up gloves!

Happy New Year!!!

Our Christmas

I woke up with so much joy and gratitude for Jesus Christ and I seriously cried so many times throughout the day because of how blessed and happy I felt.  It was such a wonderful day.  I am so grateful for my Savior and so grateful for my family.  Every good thing I have is from God.  I felt that joy on Christmas this year!

Kissing his Santa present

a GIANT giraffe

Hugging his GIANT squid

Ethan got lots of books and some board games

Goat coloring book!

Goat calendar

Todd got a new Apple Watch

Fishing in the tub

Cooper said I should post that this Christmas was "The BIGGEST day ever!"  :)

huntress Madeline

I got a new beautiful temple dress

a this gorgeous KitchenAid bowl

Merry Christmas 2019!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve morning always starts with decorating our candy houses!

 Madeline made the temple.  She's about to go!

 Cooper made the Empire State Building

 Todd made a lighthouse

 Ethan made our house.  Madeline's window is the pink one.  :)

 Oliver made a hospital

 and I made a little scene of cabins by a lake

We went to Grandpa and Nana's house for dinner.  We had prime rib and pork roast, twice baked potatoes, rolls and jello and veggies and every good thing.  We had a wonderful program and sang Christmas songs.

And I made a Christmas Baked Alaska!  It was super fun to make and turned out really yummy too.

 Chocolate cake, peppermint ice cream, and white chocolate Oreo ganache.  Topped, of course, with Italian Meringue.  Which I blow torched.  

Then we went home for Christmas Eve presents.

 Gasp!  New pjs.  Didn't see that one coming...lol

Good luck sleeping tonight!

So Many Good Things

So many festive things made at preschool!

 And it was oh so fun to eat the ice cream cone Christmas tree!

This made me giggle so much and I was happy because then we didn't have to save it.  LOL!

Oliver was also my little buddy while I went around getting the last of the errands done before Christmas, so of course we had to stop and get a treat!

 Our family had a great time going to our friend's house for dinner and decorating cookies.  Here are a few Madeline did.  The others weren't worth photographing.  haha.  It was lots of fun though!!!

 The table is set for our special Sunday night

Madeline made this cute sugar plum fairy for her friend who took her to The Nutcracker!

 And she made this sweet nativity for her primary teachers.  She will miss them!  YW here she comes!

 Her beautiful Christmas dress made by Nana!

 We have too many treats, but I really wanted to make sugar cookies anyway!  I love making Christmas trees.

 Ethan gave me an early gift of playing all the Christmas hymns so I could sing them!

 And we drove around delivering piles of goodies to friends and neighbors!

Tis the season.  I'm feeling happy and excited and blessed!