Pretty Pepper's pretty and crooked smile.
Pepper sporting one of her many hand-me-down Christmas dresses and doing one her favorite pastimes, hogging all the snacks!
The other night at dinner I decided to take advantage of Pepper being trapped in her booster seat and painted her toes. Now everytime she sees them she squeals, "Pretty toes." I love my girly-girl!
Morgan loves to bring home and show off his artwork from school.
He also loves to show off his crazy smile and killer outfits. He's now added a button down collar shirt under his pirate jacket to the "indoor outfit."
The first weekend in December, I decided to surprise Cody with a weekend trip to Columbus and the temple to celebrate his half-birthday. We didn't really do much for his birthday this year and I was feeling bad so I wanted us to do something special. I told him I was doing a girls' weekend shopping trip to Ikea in Pittsburg but I really dropped the kids off with friends and surprised him when he came out of work. He was really confused but happy. We got to go to the Friday night and Saturday morning sessions and stay in a nice hotel. As you can tell from his enthusiastic smile he really enjoyed himself!
Both the kids did fabulous and we enjoyed all the peaceful, child-free conversations. We felt very blessed.
Last week and this week we have been getting quite a bit of snow around here. Morgan is loving it and is always trying to get outside, with his shorts on but luckily I've managed to keep him bundled up.
Pretty Pepper's pretty and crooked smile.
Pepper sporting one of her many hand-me-down Christmas dresses and doing one her favorite pastimes, hogging all the snacks!
The other night at dinner I decided to take advantage of Pepper being trapped in her booster seat and painted her toes. Now everytime she sees them she squeals, "Pretty toes." I love my girly-girl!
Morgan loves to bring home and show off his artwork from school.
He also loves to show off his crazy smile and killer outfits. He's now added a button down collar shirt under his pirate jacket to the "indoor outfit."
The first weekend in December, I decided to surprise Cody with a weekend trip to Columbus and the temple to celebrate his half-birthday. We didn't really do much for his birthday this year and I was feeling bad so I wanted us to do something special. I told him I was doing a girls' weekend shopping trip to Ikea in Pittsburg but I really dropped the kids off with friends and surprised him when he came out of work. He was really confused but happy. We got to go to the Friday night and Saturday morning sessions and stay in a nice hotel. As you can tell from his enthusiastic smile he really enjoyed himself!
Both the kids did fabulous and we enjoyed all the peaceful, child-free conversations. We felt very blessed.
Last week and this week we have been getting quite a bit of snow around here. Morgan is loving it and is always trying to get outside, with his shorts on but luckily I've managed to keep him bundled up.
Pepper is not a big fan of the snow and cold but we are...sometimes.
Last Thursday night, I helped coordinate the Relief Society Christmas Dinner. Becky helped plan everything and headed up the food ladies. They did an awesome job!
We spent the morning decorating and getting things ready. The theme was Christmas Traditions so our center pieces were tree toppers from ladies at church.
And we collected nativities to display.
Once again we had a great turnout and lots of fun. We tried to include as many traditions as we could into the night. Some other ladies and I caroled during dinner and we hid a Christmas pickle ornament on one of the servers.
We also had our kids do a nativity scene while we read from Luke. It took a lot of convincing to get Morgan into his shepherds costume but Pepper loved her angel costume.
But when the time came this is what we got from our cute little angel.
Neither kid would go without me so this is what our nativity looked like.
Abby and Ben were our sheep. She was a little nervous but very cute.
We set up the other half of the gym like a living room and sang carols while we had hot chocolate and cookies. It was a really great night and I'm so grateful for everyone who helped make it so wonderful.
I am so grateful this Christmas season for wonderful, beautiful friends and for the awesome women in our Akron 1st Ward Relief Society. 
2 comments:
Jerry wants to know why there are no pictures of him?
You have such great ideas and fun activities. We have great activities too, which I don't have to plan, so I am incredibly grateful for that. Your kids are adorable. We miss you guys. I love all the snow. I have a lot of sand in my backyard, that looks like snow. It just has red ants in it. Not the same!!!! Stay warm!
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