Christmas Eve Celebration

I made Quiet Books for Tyler and Kinsey for Christmas. Londyn was going to get one too, but her mommy wanted to be the one to make it for her so we worked on the books together.



Ella really wanted Disney Princess Barbies for Christmas... here she is opening up Snow White. Christmas morning she also got Cinderella and the Prince. Mindy is now hoping for another Prince since Ella wants a Prince for each of her Princesses.


Jeffrey loves Play Mobile. After all the packages were open Dave sat with Jeffrey and helped him get his new people all put together.


Mindy modeling her new winter coat!


Oma and Opa are always so sweet to each other. There is always a kiss to say Thanks!, I love you!, or just for no reason at all!


Lynn has been busy with my dad all week long. They built a work bench together and with his Christmas Present he can organize his tools now too!


I love my present! I get to have pictures of the kids and grandkids all year long! I wouldn't mind a present like this every year! (hint, hint)


It is always fun to have Nick and Diana join in our Christmas Eve festivities! We missed Michael, Tami, Brandon, Cameron and Hanna!!! Wished they could have been here too! (Get well soon Brandon and no more surgeries right before Christmas next year!!!) Of course we also missed Kim, Rand, Avery, Trey and Kinsey!!! Why is the world so big and people live so many miles apart?

Gifts to Share

OK, so this post is late. I should have posted it last week but I guess better late than never. Lynn needed co-worker gifts for work so I decided to make these Carmel, Chocolate Pretzel rods.


I like how the packaging turned out. But, I did these again later for my Young Women class and I omitted the carmel and added white chocolate swirls. Much better!!! For some reason, the carmel got very hard and that made eating a little bit tricky!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Lynn and I were very grateful to be able to spend Thanksgiving with Kim, Rand, Avery, Trey and Kinsey this year. Visits are always so short with too much to get done, but we enjoyed our time together.


And what a yummy dinner we ate! All week Trey was asking for turkey and today he finally got it!


Since Kinsey wasn't at the dinner table I thought I would throw in some pictures of her with Poppy!


And one more, just for good measure, with Omi!