The very beginning, a very good place to start

I feel so behind on everything, including blogging and that is my excuse for this short summary of our wonderful Christmas vacation.

We celebrated Christmas Finnish style with our friends (Fisher served in the Finnish mission with the father). It was my first attempt at Finnish cuisine. I made these traditional prune filled pinwheel cookies and a meat filled scone. We also had Karelian pies, berry soup, and rice pudding. It was a fun and delicious evening.




We exchanged family Christmas gifts for FHE before Christmas. As was tradition in my family, the children have a treasure hunt to find the family gift. The treasure was the newly remodeled and furnished doll house. It was a hit.














On Christmas eve we left our house at 6:45 to travel to Idaho. Four and a half hours later we landed in Idaho Falls. We may have looked like the circus getting on and off the plane with 4 suitcases, 4 backpacks, 4 coats, 2 kids, a baby and a carseat - but it definitely beats driving for 15 hours!

We celebrated Christmas with my family in Rexburg. It was a very low key event. The two newborn babies and snowy roads gave us an easy excuse not to go anywhere. On Christmas Eve we enacted the Nativity. Fisher made a great donkey in his retro 80s snowsuit. On Christmas morning we enjoyed delicious quiche as is tradition and exchanged gifts. The rest of the time we visited, ate, played games, sang, lounged and just enjoyed being together. The Wii "Just Dance" game was a great form of entertainment and exercise. If I didn't think I would lose my inheritance, I would post the movie of my dad "dancing."

I am not sure why this collage is blury, but if you click on it, the pics are clear.
More to come...