Neighbor's gifts

At the beginning of December we went and delivered our neighbors' Christmas gifts. Brittany and Abigail tied ribbons and a note that said, "We think you're an incredi"bow" neighbor!" to each package of Christmas bows and then Wyatt hitched up the horses to a wagon with wheels instead of sleigh runners because back then we didn't have any snow yet, and we went caroling to all of our friends and neighbors. We had a lot of fun and will definitely do it this way next year!

Abigail's 6th Birthday

Abigail chose a beehive cake complete with little bees! I had so much fun decorating it and it was easy (that's the mandatory requirement for all the children's cakes).

Parker got to come to the party at Kindergarten too! Here she is with her teacher, she chose to bring cupcakes for her class and she put the frosting on all by herself with a decorator bag and fancy tip, she had a lot of fun and the class loved them!

She chose Lucky Charms for her special breakfast cereal, and she chose pumpkin pancakes for her dinner, easy day for me! She got to eat on the "red plate" and said she had a wonderful birthday!

Christmas and Yellowstone

Last year I made these just like the rocky mountain chocolate factory sells (caramel, then white chocolate, then toppings like nuts, toffee, chocolate chips) and I had so much fun making these fancy caramel apples I just had to take a picture!
We are so excited to go use our saucer sleds!
Christmas Eve was fun with Grandpa and Grandma Penfold reading the Polar Express, we acted out the nativity and opened the cutest PJ's and then exchanged the siblings gifts.
Here we are in West Yellowstone. We went right before Christmas because the children were out of school for two weeks and we needed to go do some family things with them. We are trying to make memories because that's what they'll remember later, the happy family times! We left Sunday night and got back Christmas Eve in the afternoon. We swam in the very nice indoor pool two times each day (yes our skin was DRY, but it was so much fun), played in the snow, snowmachined, went to the IMAX and saw a Lewis and Clark movie, saw animals at the Bear and Wolf Discovery center, watched movies and played games in the condo. It was super relaxing and we really had a "vacation."

Recital

On December 21, Brittany and Alex had their Christmas recital, this was Alex's first recital since he started piano. He played Little Drummer Boy. Brittany played two songs, Pat a Pan and The First Noel. They both did very well, we were so proud of them!