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Sunday, January 14, 2024

Christmas and Tanner's Birthday

We had a great Christmas and Tanner turned 11!


On our family walk


Ward Christmas Party
Maddie is up there with the youth doing a song


Cute girl


We had our Christmas devotional on Christmas Eve


And Secret Santa



Christmas morning




It was awesome!


Christmas break was so nice. We did lots of family activities, including having an Uno tournament. Tanner won 7 bucks


Kinley loves to wear these glasses as a fashion accessory


New Year's Eve party!
We stayed up until midnight partying. Our friends are from Wisconsin and love the Packers so we tried on their cheese head hats


Maddie's first dance!
Trevor took a bunch of kids to the dance so he was up there with her.


She had a great time!


Tanner's Birthday!



He got a few Rubix cubes, a new chess set, a gift card, and a boomerang ball






And a Nintendo Switch!




Can't believe he's 11


Kinley staying home from church with Dad.
Trevor got Covid and has been super sick all week.


Trevor replaced our basement door.
This is the old one.


This is the new one


Since Trevor was sick, he couldn't go to the Welcome Night for mutual and do the media, so I went in his place and got it all set up.


Our Come Follow Me lesson about the Tree of Life

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Utah Trip and Other Fun

We had a great trip to Utah and are getting ready for Christmas!


Made muffins with Kinley


Trevor and Tanner played football with other guys from the ward Thanksgiving morning




Tanner scored a few touchdowns




Raked the leaves


Got the lights put on the house


Had a few warm cozy fires


Made a Yule Log for Maddie for mutual


Got the tree set up


And decorated



Ready for Santa


More decorations


Updated family picture


The basement is coming along!
Trevor got all the drywall finished, including the ceiling


Heading off on our trip!
Trevor had a conference in SLC so we all went with him



Got McDonald's at the airport



Made it to the hotel, and the Embassy Suites breakfast


The kids loved it


Tried Cream Worx Ice Cream.
It was delicious!


Went to Luminaria at Thanksgiving Point




It was super fun!



Trevor met up with us at the end.
Luckily the manager let him in 


Got to check out Orson Gygi and the Food Nanny store.
I met the Food Nanny's husband while we were there!



At Orson Gygi





Watching "A Christmas Carol"


My mom took the kids to Grant's house to play video games so Trevor and I could go on a date


They said it was one of the highlights of the trip


Trevor and I worked out at Planet Fitness and then got an acai bowl for a treat


Tree at the hotel


We swam in the hotel pool most nights



We went to BYU to check it out and show Maddie


Yummy truffles from the bookstore


Ordering a Jamba Juice




The BYU campus has changed so much!
It brought back so many memories and was fun to walk around


Helping Grami organize her cookie cutters


We went to see "A Christmas Carol" at the Hale Centre Theater


It was so good!


Met up with Tyler and Chandra and their kids for a (free!) day at Thanksgiving Point


Went through the ropes course


Tried out all the attractions



In the Lego play area




Playing in the water area


At the Dinosaur Museum


Digging for fossils


We all swam at the hotel pool for a few hours and then came back to our room for hot chocolate.
Reagan lost her tooth while they were there!


It was such a fun day!


Went Christmas shopping at the gift shop


Helping Grami make cookies


And frost them


Our last dinner together


Heading back home.
Trevor was on different flights from us so it was just me and the kids on the way back.


Maddie was in front of us


How we all felt


On the Skylink at the Dallas airport


Finally made it home!
The first day back to school was a 2 hour delay!


Tanner's snowman


We had a cookie contest at the school and I won!
I made frosted snickerdoodles


At Maddie's choir concert.
Trevor had to go on travel again so I was solo with the kids


Maddie did great!


Tanner solving the peg board game