We spent Friday Afternoon the 23rd with mom and dad Netty! We exchanged gifts and played and snacked:
Grandpa and Ray had fun figuring out the flying monkeys! and I love Grandma’s smile behind Benji!
It’s so fun to have this time with the kids and their grandparents. I hope they have fond memories of these days like Ben and I do.
The Friday before Christmas was a BUSY FUN FUN day for us!
We started 10am with cookie decorating at the Hancocks. Then went to McDonalds 1pm with Utah Netty cousins. Straight from McD’s we went to Mom and Dad’s for our family Christmas. That evening 7pm we left and drove to Provo to see the Color of Lights show! And came home for one last Christmas Movie and bedtime! LOVED IT
McDonalds – the one in Lehi this year:
Rose lost her first tooth on December 20th, 2016 5:30 P.M. Kindergarten year.
and her 2nd tooth came out 2 weeks later on January 3rd, 2017!
Benji was an elf in his class play:
Ray let Rose give him a unicorn hair style:
Julia and Christian and Sam have been coming over to babysit and hang out on Monday afternoons!
We got a fun gift basket from our renters:
Wrestling is still going strong:
Thursday the 22nd was the last day of school and we got to listen to all the kids sing with their grades:
And the night of the 22nd Ben and I went to the Caleb Chapman Christmas Concert with Matt and Jamie and Michelle and Udine!
and then it was finally Christmas break!
12/19 We kept with tradition this year and visited Grandma and Grandpa Becker and did our puppet nativity with them!
Grandma and Millie both wanted to be Mary: Grandma won 🙂
The Hancocks are back and they took back the Wassail Party. They had tons of people over and we drank lots of yummy-ness and visited.
And then we went back on Thursday to watch the BYU bowl game! We like those guys!
We headed out on the morning of December 17th to go to ben’s cousin Megan’s wedding reception in Idaho. It was a sunny blue sky day but the further north the worse the storm got. Colleen was a couple of hours ahead of us and told us to turn around because traffic was stopped and it was very snowy and icy.
We were in Ogden when we made the decision not to go on to the wedding so we went to the Retrocade! and convinced the Falabellas that they wanted to do the same. We played for a couple of hours!
Then we waited an hour or two to eat hot dogs at “That Hot Dog Place”. They were good but SLOWWWWW.
We went home and had movie night to end our Saturday.
love this cute kid
needs a haircut
snotty winter time nose
always carrying around baby Jesus
Cali wanted a Moana cake this year. I took the easy road and bought the figures. She loved it.
AND Cali finally had her cousin party 2 1/2 weeks late. She shared the party with Ashlyn and had lots of fun dressing up and dancing and hanging out with the cousins.
Brady came to visit for the first time since he moved out 9 months ago. Millie was so excited to have her best friend back! She kept telling Brady that Kelsey uses his bed now but hims could still have hims shower 🙂
Now, a few weeks after Christmas, Millie brought me her pillow that Brady won this summer at the Boardwalk. She said, “I’m going to use Brady’s pillow cause hims my best friend and I miss him. ”
