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Monday, January 2, 2023

Christmas!!

 It's the end of Christmas break! We are sad that it is over. 
We did so many fun things together!


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I started working as a tutor at the kids' school! 
It is the best job.


Ice skating!


It was Kinley and Tanner's first time and they both did great






Eating at Mexican


New pjs from Grami


Made THE chocolate cake, after Maddie begged me to


New shoes from Grami for Christmas


Making truffles for neighbor and friend gifts


We did a progressive dinner with our friends and I was in charge of appetizers


At our friends house


Maddie reading to their granddaughter


Decorating a real gingerbread house


Built this Lego car


Lego Advent calendars!


Putting up the tree


Another party at our friends house


Our friend got Kinley a new nightstand, painted it and made it nice, and bought her a new lamp for her room


Maddie made the Principals Honor Roll!


We went to Gilbert Run Park to walk the trail, and, of course, throw rocks in the lake


Parts of the lake were completely frozen!




They finally fixed the bridge, now it is really nice



Went to the Air and Space Museum at the Dulles airport. 
It was awesome!
This is the SR-71 Blackbird



They even had US Navy missiles, Trevor's favorite


THE Enola Gay


The Discovery Space Shuttle



We finally got to eat at Shake Shack!
We have been wanting to try it since we moved out here but there aren't any that are close to us. 
We all agreed they had the best chocolate shake of anywhere



Christmas Eve devotional and Secret Santa gift exchange


Santa came!


Rushing for their presents


The chaos


Tanner got a Rubix cube


Maddie trying on her new dress


I had to speak in sacrament on Christmas Day!
I was pretty nervous but it ended up going really well



Made pizza for our Christmas dinner


Trevor has been working on finishing part of the basement.
He made a closet under the stairs and finished it all himself!
This is the before picture






All done!
We moved the freezer and my extra food storage pantries on the wall so now there is more space


Got a TV for the downstairs so the kids can play Nintendo on it


The kids trying it out.
We love the way it looks now! Trevor did such a great job and our basement looks so much nicer.


Did this Lego minifigure puzzle over the break


Trevor and I waxed our nose hair.
Had never done it before but it was pretty fun! And we got great results.


Doing ab workouts together


Trevor had Tanner for Secret Santa this year.
Tanner was feeling sick over Christmas weekend but is mostly recovered now.


Trevor solving the Rubix cube for the first time!
Since then Tanner has solved it like 10 times.


Ice skating fun!

Not pictured was watching Survivor, the kids playing happily together, staying up until midnight on New Year's Eve, and Trevor and I going on a date every day! We mostly went to the gym together to do Body Pump. We ate so much good food and after the absolutely freezing cold front we had, the weather has been really nice. We are all sad that the break is over. 


2 comments:

  1. Great update Nat! The basement looks awesome!

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  2. Looks like a great Christmas!! Not sure I would describe waxing nose hair has fun... but I've never tried it so maybe you're on to something! Basement looks great!

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