Christmas 2012

playing tic tac toe with Dad

 

One of the major positives of Justin being a student right now is that he gets a big Christmas break and we get to just hang out together for some time around Christmas. We're loving every minute of having him home.

 

We had dinner at a cute little diner here named "Uncle Jim's"

 

 

we worked on a big puzzle

 

 

wore old Christmas gifts to church (Ariane made me this necklace a few years ago- love it!)

 

 

watched lots of Christmas movies

 

 

made sugar cookies for Santa

 

 

Davy's frosting job:

 

 

 

 

 

we got ready for our 2nd annual formal Christmas Eve dinner

 

 

 

 

I took this picture about 2 mintues before Davy spilt his sparkling cider all over the table

 

Santa came!

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

we went to Grandma and Grandpa Bunn's house where David helped get the chicken feed ready

and Audrey made some beautiful yummy mini pink cupcakes

 



 

 

It was a great Christmas!

 

The Nutcracker

 

Awhile ago I found a video of the Nutcracker Ballet and picked it up thinking Audrey would enjoy it. Enjoy it is an understatement. She loved it. So we picked up a Nutcracker book at the library. She loved it. So...when we saw that there would be a live performance of the Nutcracker at ISU, we had to get this girl there to see it in person.

 

Justin stayed home with David and let me go with Audrey since I've always wanted to see it as well. And, well we knew Audrey would love it but the surprising thing was how much I loved it too. Turns out I love ballet. Like, really love it. Who knew?

 

Audrey whispered in my ear through the whole thing. "There's Uncle Drosselmeyer!" "The Mouse King!" and then when the lights came on and the curtain came down for intermission she turned to me horrified and said, "Mom, it can't be over yet!"

 

 

It was a great experience and we're big time fans.

Definately seeing it again next year.

 



let's start at the beginning

watching the snow in pajamas

Wow I'm behind! Our lives are just busy right now, there's no other excuse. Two kids, one in school, the apartments, Justin starting grad school- we're just busy. Occasionally I've been tempted to forgo blogging altogether but this is sort of like our family journal, and I know that Audrey's birth family likes to keep tabs on her and so.... here we go. :)

 



Davy loves his "choo choo"s

Mr. Giraffe joins us for lunch

we put up our Christmas tree

And Davy helped hang up lots of ornaments in a nice little row right at the bottom

when did someone let my little baby turn into this big boy?

we visited Temple Square

 

and the Joseph Smith Memorial Building

 

and City Creek

 

 

gingerbread houses have been made

Audrey caught a stomach flu

 

and kindly shared it with David.....and then me......yuck

Justin threw a Christmas party for Thi Alpha Theta at ISU that can only be discribed as "swanky"

 

Audrey requested a ballerina doll from Santa and Davy refused to sit on his lap

I've got 5 vacant apartments which has kept me busy cleaning at night

 

And we've had snow which has kept Justin (and his helpers) busy shoveling the sidewalks