Christmas Eve

We had a quick trip down to my parents for Christmas Eve. Coult was on call Christmas day, so we had to head home late Christmas Eve. We had a great time! We were finally able to meet Jodi and Jordan too! Here are some pics from that night:

Tortilla snowflakes

Natalie saw this dessert idea in one of the recent Friend magazines. We decided to give it a try for our FHE refreshment a couple of Mondays ago. We each had fun making our own snowflake and then eating them! They are so easy to do and the girls have wanted to make them several times since that night. You just sprinkle a few drops of water on a tortilla and heat it in the microwave for a few seconds--just long enough to make it pliable. Then you fold it the same way you would to make a paper snowflake. We used our kitchen shears to cut out our designs on the edges, unfolded the tortillas and then cooked them in a little bit of milk free margarine in a skillet. Then we sprinkled some cinnamon and sugar on top. Yummy!

Snow!

We awoke to a wonderful surprise on Wed. It was snowing! It snowed for a while and then stopped. The snow started to melt and then we were surprised again when it started to snow even harder that afternoon! It was snowing pretty hard when I picked Natalie up from school. She was so excited! That time, the snow was able to accumulate quite a bit. It was at least 3 inches deep by the time we went to bed last night. The girls made a small snow man Wed. morning before school and our neighbors were able to build a full size snow man by late Wed. night. The girls really enjoyed the snow! I have a couple of videos of them throwing snowballs at each other that I will try to add later. I still can't get my videos to upload for some reason. Anyway, Lily was so sad this morning when she found out the sun was going to melt the snow and that it wouldn't be snowing any today. She told me she was going to "make the sun go home" so that the snow wouldn't melt. LOL She has really been wanting to see snow! Natalie said the snow brought back memories for her of when we lived in Utah about 9 yrs ago. She loved the snow then and she still loves it now. I love seeing everything looking like a winter wonderland outside. Who knows, maybe we'll get some more snow before winter is over.

Happy 12th B-Day Natalie!

Natalie turned twelve this past Tuesday! It's hard to believe that she is twelve yrs old now! She had her first ever slumber party Friday night. The girls seemed to have lots of fun! She had a Hawaiian Luau themed party. Coult did a great job on her cake (as always)! I tried to upload a video from her party, but it wouldn't work. I'll try again later. Until then, here are some pics from her special day: