Year: 2016

My boys were itching to have a sleep-over at Grandmama’s house and so we made it happen over Christmas Break. Kevin and I took that opportunity to host a party.  I made some very dear friends when I was in junior high (or earlier) and while we’ve spent years apart, we still feel very close. […]

We don’t usually plan a lot for Christmas Break – I like the boys to have downtime to play with their new stuff – but we do throw in a few extra special adventures.  Some of those had to do with the end of the year coming and our Wanna Do List not being completed! […]

Christmas was a Sunday and we had 9 am church.  Things were a little rushed that morning! But we still had time for a Before-Everyone-Comes-Downstairs Picture… Like I said, it was a little rushed and things didn’t get picked up for a while! We woke up to snow.  It was just like Christmas should be! […]

I think it is all the little extras that makes Christmas such a fun time of year. There is the pile of presents that I had shipped to our house rather than going to the actual store… There are “winter break has begun” binge tv watching events …. There are homemade bows for my hair […]

I had a dream. The dream began when I was young.  Maybe 6 or 7. I went with my parents to watch my brothers and sister perform in a living nativity.  A family in our ward did it every year and the youth played the roles.  I thought it was the most magical and amazing […]