Christmas 2023

 

Christmas was all the things this year - busy, fun, traditions, gifting, partying...etc.

We got these photos from Brother Guerrell at church from our Ward Christmas Party. 😍

Ollie and Santa

Tim and Aaron being brothers

Cora Jane

Cora with christmas lights

The whole fam, and Ollie with his two front teeth missing :)

Cora and her peeps: Candice and Vanessa

The Wild Shot

The Angel Shot

We sang Shephard's Carol with the Primary (Cora and Ollie). I played a short flute intro and led the song.  Caitlyn was on oboe.  Aaron was on bells, but forgot his mallets!  You wouldn't know it though because he homemade some out of Caitlyn's screwdrivers she had handy for her oboe. :)

The youth (Tim and Aaron) also sang a song with a little Nativity that was very sweet

The little kids enjoyed Christmas Parties at school in their classrooms

The pictures are not in chronological order, but here's what else we did this Christmas.

We made cocoa bombs one night

A huge highlight of Christmas Break was having Allie, Sanchit and Salil over

We really enjoyed spending time with family

And introducing Salil to Pac Man

And some fun stories

One of Cora's gifts was a new rug.  

She couldn't put it out until her room was clean though, and she worked hard to get it just right!

She also made a picnic for the kids one day

Visiting Bass Pro Shops

Tim was our driver to and from our post-Christmas Camping trip.

He learned the art of passing very well and got 3 hours of driving on his chart!  Woot!

The backpacking trip was a great success

A few pictures of Christmas Morning

And our Christmas Eve Bethlehem Dinner

Bella was around for the whole shebang, laying eggs in our stockings right and left!

On the last day of school, Ollie had 4 friends over and we hiked and made gingerbread houses.

Another interesting note....Ollie finally got his spacer in.  It will likely be in for 6 years!

His teeth were impacted and he had to have 5 teeth removed under anesthesia.

My first baby to get put under.

A few Christmas Gifts I ordered for friends.  12 gifts of the Savior.

I thought they were really cute :)

Hope you had a very Merry Christmas!