Sunday, December 27, 2009

Christmas three times over!

This past week has been busy for us as we celebrated Christmas with my family, Mark's parents, and had our own family Christmas too! On Sunday, December 20, we went out to my parents house and celebrated with my parents and two brothers. It was a great day! Each of the kids got one gift from Grandma and Grandpa that they loved! Mark took out his model airplane and flew it around my parents property (120 acres). On his second flight we had a major mishap, he was flying the plane upside down too low and when he went to turn it back right side up he couldn't climb fast enough and ran the plane full speed into the barbed wire fence. :-( It was a very impressive wreck, the whole plane blew up into a bunch of little splinters of wood. Needless to say, the plane was beyond fixing. It was great to spend time as a family, even with the plane crash. On Monday Elijah and Emmaline went out to Mark's parents house to spend a couple of nights. Then on Wednesday Mark's parents brought the kids back, had dinner with us and opened gifts for our Christmas celebration with them. I made the dinner and they brought dessert, a fabulous French Silk pie. Yum! Again, the kids had a great time! The weather was beautiful and snowy with icy roads so it was very festive! On Christmas day we stayed home and celebrated with just us, it was sooo nice. This is the first year that we have been home and alone for Christmas since we got married. We slept in a bit (as much as you can with little ones), then opened our stockings. I wrapped the stocking gifts as well this year and the kids had a blast opening all the little things. :-) Then we had a special breakfast and after cleaning up the kitchen and dishes started our present opening. We take turns opening gifts one at a time, going from youngest to oldest, so our gift time lasts for quite awhile. The kids had so much fun! We spent the rest of the day relaxing and playing with all the new gifts. It has been a great holiday season!

Monday, December 14, 2009

Christmas Tea

For the past several years my mom has put together a ladies christmas tea at her church. Last Saturday was the big day and Emmaline and I were able to attend! It was a very nice tea, we were served savories and sweets with two choices for tea as well. Their were lots of little girls to play with so Emmaline had a good time as well. I was able to sit with my mom and sister-in-law, Kayla. That was nice, it gave me a chance to get to talk to them a little bit and catch up on all the news. It was a very nice day and lots of fun!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Wedding!

My sister got married this past weekend, Saturday, November 28. She lives in San Diego so the day after Thanksgiving we left at 6 a.m. and drove out for the wedding. It was a 19 hour drive for us with all the stops we had to make for the kids. We stayed at Mark's grandma's house Friday night then drove down to San Diego for my sister's wedding on Saturday evening. She choose to have a small, informal wedding on the beach and the Navy chaplain married her and Ty. (She is in the Navy). It was very pretty and very cold. :-) On Sunday we relaxed and spent time with Mark's Grandma and her husband. On Monday morning we left California and drove straight through back home, arriving back in Colorado on Tuesday morning at 6:30 a.m. It was a long trip but I'm glad we could be there for the wedding.

Emmaline's 4th Birthday!

Emmaline's 4th Birthday was on November 23 and we had a party to celebrate on Sunday, November 22. We did a princess theme, her choice. She had a great time! It was a little difficult to get everything ready since I was still sick but everything went together without a hitch. :-)