My girlfriends in the ward took me out for dinner a few days before my birthday. Olive Garden! yay! I love girls' night with my friends!
November 30, 2012
The OG
My girlfriends in the ward took me out for dinner a few days before my birthday. Olive Garden! yay! I love girls' night with my friends!
November 25, 2012
Decorating
The day after Thanksgiving was spent putting away our fall decorations and bringing out the Christmas decorations. Ava would hand me hangers for the ornaments and then try to put one on herself...resulting in precariously balanced ornaments. She is still twisting and twirling them on the branches to see the reflection of the lights off the glass and glitter. All we need now is for Lyle and Sean to put up the outside decorations and lights! I love Christmastime and the warmth, love and peace it brings into society and my home.
November 24, 2012
Thanksgiving 2012
Thanksgiving this year was amazing! It's always fun to get together with family and recognize your blessings. One thing I'm grateful for every year is that I don't have to or choose to go shopping on Black Friday; I choose to buy throughout the year so I don't have to face that madness!
Started Thanksgiving day out by baking an Apple Pie. Boy did it make our house smell delicious! When we finally got to Lyle's parents house I realized I left my memory card for my camera at home. Boo! I had rushed around frantically at home trying to get everything ready to go and grabbed my camera at the last minute, without thinking to check if the card was in it. So, the rest of the holiday was captured with my phone. But, I'm grateful Lyle recently bought me a new phone so I had a good camera on it to be able to capture these moments with!
Lyle wanted me to do Ava's hair down on Thanksgiving day. So, I obliged and left it down. We blow dried it and straightened it so it cascaded down her back. Everyone complimented her on her beautiful hair and I love how gorgeous it is too!
The kids and Lyle spent most of the beautiful afternoon outside playing basketball with Dad. It was gorgeous weather until about 4, then it started to get cold.
We had waaaay too much food, of course. There was so much it didn't all fit in one location and was relegated to additional tables.
Ava loved Aunt Vicki's delicious grape/toffee salad. She had three helpings!
Sean is at the age where he loves to bug everybody and then get tickled, or sat on...depending on who he's bugging. Luckily, Lyle's family enjoys every minute of it.
Uncle Scott came over and told everyone about a fun new game on the iPhone. Hill Climb. Everyone wanted to play it and they were all downloading it throughout the day. At one point there were 7 people in the living room playing it on an iPod or an iPhone! They spent hours playing the game. It was insane!
In the end, the day was full of warmth, joy, laughter, peace and lots of food. What better way to spend Thanksgiving?
Started Thanksgiving day out by baking an Apple Pie. Boy did it make our house smell delicious! When we finally got to Lyle's parents house I realized I left my memory card for my camera at home. Boo! I had rushed around frantically at home trying to get everything ready to go and grabbed my camera at the last minute, without thinking to check if the card was in it. So, the rest of the holiday was captured with my phone. But, I'm grateful Lyle recently bought me a new phone so I had a good camera on it to be able to capture these moments with!
Lyle wanted me to do Ava's hair down on Thanksgiving day. So, I obliged and left it down. We blow dried it and straightened it so it cascaded down her back. Everyone complimented her on her beautiful hair and I love how gorgeous it is too!
The kids and Lyle spent most of the beautiful afternoon outside playing basketball with Dad. It was gorgeous weather until about 4, then it started to get cold.
We had waaaay too much food, of course. There was so much it didn't all fit in one location and was relegated to additional tables.
Ava loved Aunt Vicki's delicious grape/toffee salad. She had three helpings!
Sean is at the age where he loves to bug everybody and then get tickled, or sat on...depending on who he's bugging. Luckily, Lyle's family enjoys every minute of it.
Uncle Scott came over and told everyone about a fun new game on the iPhone. Hill Climb. Everyone wanted to play it and they were all downloading it throughout the day. At one point there were 7 people in the living room playing it on an iPod or an iPhone! They spent hours playing the game. It was insane!
In the end, the day was full of warmth, joy, laughter, peace and lots of food. What better way to spend Thanksgiving?
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