We Are a Happy Family

CHER...being a mommy. reading. blogging. chocolate milk. photography. languages. pizza. enya. milk shakes. traveling. friends. crafts. cooking. summer thunder storms. ollie

OLLIE...being a daddy. hunting. reading. smoking bbq. history. dinosaurs. traveling. guns. gardening. classic rock. camping. beef jerky. cooking. gummy bears. cher

LULU...18/ crab. flute. books. candy. astronomy. friends. lemonade. tomatoes. spicy cheetos. piano. school. art. marching band. memes and reels.

HAMMER...16/ chalk roads. tennis. potato bugs. coding. pickles. friends. sandwiches. storm drains. choir. frozen burritos. minecraft. mustard. candy.

TJ...14/ lemurs. coati. tennis. strawberries. sour candy. alligators. kindle. fish. backpacking. gorillas. games. puzzles. fried eggs. minecraft. swimming.

A...11/ apple sauce. roblox. titanic. candy. friends. burgers. cheese. shopping. swimming. minecraft. strawberries. making youtube vids. kindle.

PLUTO PLEIADES...Pointer 13/ people. his bed. peanut butter.

Thursday, December 31

Where was Freddie?

 Hi guys,

We had fun finding our little Freddie friend each morning huh? A, you especially loved guessing where he'd be the next day and reveling in his magic. You watched a show at your friend's about elve's caught on camera and you were a liiiittle scared that you'd see Freddie move and it would be creepy. It was all that you could talk about. You could have sworn you saw him move his head one night. However, we never did catch him in the act of moving on camera, but here is proof that we was in a new place each morning.

He always shows up on our tree on Dec 1st, and he usually has a gift for us under the tree:

He wrote little tiny Christmas cards for all his friends, and left them shiny gifts:
This note says that he is King of Candy Mountain. He gathered lots of sugar around him:
There is an advent ornament stuck to him as he hides here:
We can always find him here one time:
Holding on to his buddy and checking out the countdown doors, which unfortunately were all empty:
In the grips of a real Polish nutcracker:
He loves the gnome:
Tubby time with a dino:
He brought us treats to make candy houses:
He gathered all the treats on the counter, ate some of one of the cookies, and stuck bows from neighbor gifts all over his hat:
Staring out creepily from a Christmas glass in the cupboard:
Powdered donuts for sale:
Drinking the chocolate syrup in the fridge:
Is he a bat or an elf?:
Trying to hide behind the tissues:
This time he found all the candy on the mantle:
Fruit bath:
Trying his own cereal:
If you look closely you can see that he has a sticker on his nose and that he put one on every ornament with a kid's picture too:
Santa!! I know him! and I love him!:
He found the bed in Lulu's Interior Design project:
He wrote a little poem about brushing your teeth:
Lastly, he is always holding baby Jesus when we wake up on Christmas Eve:
So, that's it! We had a fun Freddie season.
Love you!
Mom

The Best of 2020

Hi!
After much deliberation, I present you with my 10 favorite photos of 2020 (pictures with people in them!)











And 2 bonus pics, to prove I was part of this journey!

We did some really fun things, especially considering it was a pandemic year. I loved all of the time that we spent together.
Love, 
Mom

Tuesday, December 29

Christmas

 Christmas Eve Eve

We celebrated Christmas and Grammie's birthday at Rashelle's this year. Kayleen's family couldn't come because they had Covid at their house. That was too bad. We had a delicious Maddox dinner and sang to Grammie:

We wore our masks when we weren't eating and we ate at separate family tables. We want to keep cute Grammie healthy!

Christmas Eve:

It started with an unplanned trip to the grocery store because there was a sale on ground beef and I came home also with lots of strawberries that needed immediate attention:

I spent about 7 hours in the kitchen this day. Jam. Jello. Sugar Cookies. Manger scenes. Tamales from scratch. Lunch. And more dinner prep. It turned out to be lovely and so yummy:







After dinner we facetimed with Nana to play some piano Christmas songs for her. She loved it:
Then it was downstairs to open new pj's and watch the Grinch:
We ended the night with hymns and Come Follow Me and the story from Luke 2. It was nice:
Time for bed! So excciting:
Christmas Day:
4 stockings are filled:
Ready for kids to come downstairs!:
Let's check out the stockings and open some gifts:














A, Dad let you practice a little shooting into a box at the end of the hall. You are so happy with this gift and you didn't shoot your eye out!:
We opened gifts at Gramma and Grandpa's house. Gramma got a game called Keeping it Saxy:
Grandpa got a book called Crap Taxidermy and it sure made him laugh:
You guys got gifts too, and you're already snuggling with your new blankets. Also Laura's dog is snuggling with Dad:

Still laughing at Grandpa's book:
After lunch we did the bells:
Then it was time to go home and give Pluto his special dinner that Santa left him. He couldn't wait:
Lastly, just a cute pictures of Pluto by the tree for his Instagram account.:
I miss the lights now that it's all put away. The lights on people's houses and on our tree just makes me feel so happy. I love Christmas time. It's so fun to watch you guys enjoy it and see the magic in your eyes.
Sure love you guys!
Mom