Sunday, January 18, 2015

The Norm

Between all the Holiday festivities, there were school plays, basketball games, holiday preparations, recitals, and every day life.
Watching football with grandpa
Impressive! She gets her sleeping abilities from her dad
Cook out on the last warmish night of fall
No caption necessary
Sweet Dreams
The coach (me) with Lou's basketball team
Being the coach for Lou's team was very frustrating while at the same time being equally fun and rewarding!  These cute girls worked hard and improved a lot.

Lou as the "Littlest Snowflake"
 As a gift to their parents, Curly's class performed a musical.  Curly sang a solo in her role.  She did great!
Curly and the wonderful Mrs. Erickson
"Helping" mom bake.  One of the many pounds of butter we used!

Gingerbread cookies

Playing "Library"
Some of the happenings, weren't so normal.  Paisley graduated from BYU-Idaho!  She is on to bigger and better things.
Paisley's graduation
Nathan, Kristi and Diego arrived in time to celebrate mom's birthday.   We celebrated with sushi and Pineapple Dream Dessert.  It's a treat to be close enough to celebrate with her.
Mom's birthday
Our sun babies get to learn to ski this year!  All together, at the same time.  We have been a few times since this back yard ski lesson and they are doing great!
The first ski lesson

Thanksgiving with the Lakes

Prepare to be blog bombed!  You would think that with all the technological advances that make life easier, I would be able to keep this blog more up to date.  Maybe that will be a New Years resolution... oh wait, New Year's has passed...

We had wonderful holidays this year.  With Thanksgiving and Christmas combined, we were able to spend time with all of our siblings and their families.

Thanksgiving was spent in Utah with the Lakes.  We took advantage of the free zoo day and joined the rest of Salt Lake Valley for a gorgeous, sunny spring day viewing animals.
Thanksgiving dinner was consumed in the Waters lovely home.  Everyone contributed and everything was delicious!
Kids eat first!


Spud watching football with the guys.


After dinner, there was some football playing, visiting the park, crafting, and napping.  In the evening we enjoyed exchanging gifts with each other.

Uncle Steve and the April Fools Twins
Gifts from Oma
The day following Thanksgiving, we visited Thanksgiving Point to play at the Museum of Natural Curiosity.  It was an amazing place and we had a lot of fun!  I managed to get caught on the stretchy spider web (if you've been there, you know what I mean).  I looked ridiculous trying to get through all the layers, but I have not laughed that hard in a long time!
Spud in giant Lego heaven
Saturday, we visited at Grandpa and Grandma Woodbury's home with many of our Woodbury relatives.  It was really fun to see Nikki and her daughter visiting from Virginia.  In the evening we went to see the beautiful lights on Temple Square.

Cousins - Nicole, me, Elyse
It was a wonderful, long holiday weekend!  We are grateful that everyone made the effort to be together.