Holiday Happenings

Okay, so I've been off the blogging bandwagon for a little while, but in an attempt to jump back on this may turn into a "super post."

The holidays this year were particularly wonderful. It may have something to do with the fact that I now have someone particularly wonderful to share them with. Some of the best parts were spending time with family and friends, seeing old friends, shopping for Joseph (does it ever get better than spoiling your sweetheart?), eating mounds of delicious holiday treats, and enjoying the outdoors and a white, white Utah Christmas.

Seeing fall meet winter is a beautiful thing. An early snow in Virginia put us in the Christmas mood...
As the holiday treat cravings set in I invited some USU alum friends over and we had a great time making peppermint bark, caramels and other goodies.


I also got to catch up with an old friend, Anne Marie. I loved meeting her sweet baby, Jaclyn and enjoying some good laughs. Good friends and good memories are some of the sweetest parts of life.

Then it was on to Utah for the festivities. Snowmobiling.

There was a lot of this.....

and some of this...

And of course there was this.....

Christmas morn and the family pajamas (Designed and produced by yours truly...8 pairs of pjs...never again)!

Christmas Dinner

We've been friends since kindergarten, and even though we may only see each other once ore twice a year, we never skip a beat. I was so glad Shayla stopped by to say hi.
Getting all dressed up for dinner is the tradition at our house. Actually any excuse to get dressed up is tradition at our house :)
I also got to see my friend, MaryJo and her beautiful family. The Floyd Farnsworth family made a pit stop in Duchesne and had the famous pre-Christmas clam chowder. As well as Eric, another family adoptee.
And at the end of it all, I think this is how we all felt :) After all his hard work, the old elf was just tuckered out!