19 Years

Yesterday Mike and I celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary. We went out together Saturday night but spent yesterday celebrating with the kids. Throughout the day we were asked quite frequently "what were you doing at his time 19 years ago." Over the day we shared with them a lot of the happenings of our wedding day. It was fun to think back. Mollie loved that we had the fancy dishes to celebrate and the "appling cider" made the celebration complete. I love having a best friend to share life with and am excited for the many years to come. Happy Anniversary Mike, I love you.

Hope You Had a Wonderful Christmas

On Christmas Eve we had a wonderful dinner with family and then had a great program listening to the story of the birth of Christ, singing carols, playing with wind up toys and of course eating. I absolutely loved our cast who acted out the Christmas story for us as it was read.

The Three "little" Wisemen

Mary with baby Jesus. Yes, there is a real baby in there.
Ava, 2 weeks old, played the part beautifully.

The Angel and the Shephards

Megan, Sam, and Mollie hanging out in their new pajamas getting ready to head to bed and eagerly awaiting Santa's visit.



Christmas day was nice. Very quiet and enjoyable. Everyone loved their gifts and we had fun playing games and working on a jigsaw puzzle at Bob and Lucy's house.



We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

One last picture. After the igloo the next project was a couch. Right in the middle of our front yard. It has started raining so the snow is quickly melting.

Happy Birthday Megan

Yesterday Megan celebrated her 15th Birthday. Although Mike and I are amazed that we have a 15 year old we are more amazed by Megan. She is a great kid and a wonderful example in our family. I am continually impressed by the many things she does and accomplishes. We went to lunch at La Palmera and then to see Bolt the movie. We had a fun day together. Happy Birthday! WE LOVE YOU!

A New Home

What started as building a snow wall with an old laundry soap bucket turned into a five hour project and one great igloo. The kids spent the better part of the day in the back yard creating their masterpiece. It was great to see them work together and have them out of the house for so long. They hauled snow from the side yard, front yard, and neighbors yard. After they were finished it seemed the perfect place to enjoy a cup of hot chocolate.

YES, we live in SEATTLE!

What a crazy week. More and more snow. The kids are loving it. Lots of fun things to do. I have enjoyed being hunkered down at home. Pretty much everything has been cancelled since last Tuesday. However, I'm not sure that I enjoy the extremely lived in house with all of the dirty/wet snow clothes.

For FHE on Monday night the kids decorated gingerbread houses. It is one of their favorite traditions. Every year Grandma Lucy makes the houses from scratch (THANK YOU). I get the easier part of glueing them together. Megan, Sam, and Mollie love picking out the candy, decorating, eating the candy, and hanging out with their cousins. We already have talked about delaying gingerbread houses next year one week so that the older BYU cousins can come after school is out. Very fun memories.

WOW!

After the Santa photos we walked over to the Sheraton to look at the gingerbread house competition. The theme was "Super Heroes." the houses were amazing. Our favorite two were the Nintendo DS with a cool rainbow road and Batman's house. It was a very fun few minutes that I would highly recommend.