skip to main |
skip to sidebar
I am way behind on my blogging these days...and it's a new year! About a week before Christmas we went to see the temple lights with our good friends the Buckwalters. There was a ton of people there who had the same idea as us. We went to Pete's Fish and Chips before (which we are going to have to make a tradition...it was delicious) and then headed over to the temple to see the lights. 
Our friends the Buckwalters. 
The lights were beautiful and we were so glad we went.
It looks like I passed on my love for cooking to my daughter....she loves to be in the kitchen helping. She knows where everything is...spices, oven mitts, mixing spoons, cups, etc. Yesterday she helped me make cookies. Yes, whatever is out usually gets mixed together, it takes me twice as long to add ingredients, and stirring usually results in foods everywhere, but the smile on Ryan's face makes me love every minute of it!
Can you tell Ryan loves the camera. She recently learned to say, "cheese!"
We usually stay home for Thanksgiving, but this year we flew to CA to spend Thanksgiving with my family. We also came for a special event, the marriage of my Dad and Donna. My dad met a wonderful woman named Donna and they were married the Friday after Thanksgiving (11/26). They got married at a place called Cannons Seafood and Grill in Dana Point. It was a beautiful wedding with an amazing view of the ocean. Donna has 2 children both around my age and it was fun having everyone together. We are happy to have them part of our family. Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of the happy couple, but I didn't manage to get pictures of mine and Mindy's families! My sister Mindy with her cute family. Pyper and Ashton got the flu the night before...they were darling at Grandpa's wedding, but didn't feel too good.
Since Halloween fell on a Sunday this year we decided we wouldn't go trick-or-treating, but would let Ryan go to the neighbor's homes on both sides of our house. We knew they would love to see Ryan in her costume. Apparently you only have to go to a few houses to get a bucket full of candy. At one of our neighbor's house they told her to take as much candy as she wanted....she kept putting candy in her basket that I had to stop her. :)We learned that Ryan LOVES suckers.
I sitting at my computer right now while Ryan is taking a nap. I just uploaded a ton of pictures from my camera and there is A LOT of updating I need to do to our blog. I'm really late at posting these, but here are pictures of Ryan at Halloween. She was a fairy and loved getting candy. She was so cute in her costume. We went to our ward trunk-or-treat and she didn't quite know what we were doing. After she got candy from 1 person she was on board. She went to each person and said "treat" and "thank you". Helping Daddy pass out candy. We participated in the chili cook-off and pumpkin contest. Billy carved this pumpkin that's supposed to be our bishop. I love those big eyes!
We headed up to Lancaster late Christmas Eve. Ryan loved playing in Grandma's garden. 
Ryan enjoying a piece of See's candy chocolate. Yum!
Ryan loves to color and believe it or not, didn't have a coloring book. Mommy and Daddy fixed that problem for Christmas. Ryan enjoying coloring with Grandma. 
Ryan happily enjoying her toys on Christmas morning. It was a lot of fun seeing Ryan get all excited about her toys. She knew the tree was special, but didn't really understand that you got presents on Christmas. It only took opening a couple of gifts to realize that she got new toys. She would start opening a present, smile, and exclaim, "Toy!" It was really cute. 
Billy checking out what Santa brought. We had a wonderful Christmas. We enjoyed spending it with family and reflecting on the birth of Our Savior, Jesus Christ. We are so grateful for the gospel and our many blessings. We hope you had a great Christmas. 
