Thursday, February 16, 2023

Christmas hoopla




Grandpa decorated his dunes sleigh with lights!
We borrowed it to cruise around and look at Christmas lights.
Even better that the girls got picked up from dance in it.
Everyone came running to the window with their ooh's and aah's.







The girls had their Christmas dance recital.







Olive was in the Nutcracker.
She was a ginger kid and did an amazing job!





Kindergarten Christmas sing!
Since Marcie home schools she enjoys bringing her kids to things like this. 






We went to the Evans for our annual dinner, cookies and Christmas light watching in the back 
of the truck!

We added some service this time with making caramel dipped pretzel sticks to give
to the kids church leaders. 

They wrote notes and  loved every second of it! 




I made festive Disneyland inspired drinks to go with dinner!




Winnie was loving on Casey.
The man who hates dogs the most. 
She could sense it. 
Trying to win him over. 



She moved on to Lane who would give her the love she was wanting!




We drove around Agritopia this time.
David and Abbey live in here and said the neighborhood goes all out!
They were right!







Grammy had a Whoville Christmas party!







Poor Rusty was sick at home. 




Winter sing for Lindi



I was tired one Sunday and could only muster up random
things from the fridge for dinner.

Made them look festive to spruce it up. 



Our ward Christmas party was different than the usual.
We had a concert in a cul de sac and invited the neighbors to hear Matt Farris perform .

They used to live in Nashville, but moved a street over.

He holds concerts all over the place. 
He is not a member of the church, but loves to involve the community as much as possible
and was more than willing when we asked. 


His trailer stage was pretty sweet!



At the end the kids got to see Santa and Mrs. Claus. 



There is always something going on with dance.
This time was their RED photoshoot. 





Temple lights!
The only 2 willing to say cheese. 



 

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Rusty's B-day + Thanksgiving at the Dunes





Another Thanksgiving spent at the dunes!

Casey, and actually both boys, found watching all of the trucks and trailers stuck
 in the sand pretty amusing! 

His morning view, for a good 30 minutes.
"oh, they are digging themselves deeper".
"don't do that, rev gently back and forth with the wheel turned".






Rusty ends up with a Thanksgiving birthday every once in a while.
This year was one of them!

No better way to celebrate your 13th birthday than at the dunes! 






It was windy all day, so not much riding happened.
We did have a big dinner with all of the trimmings thanks to Nates Big BBQ!





He requested a salted caramel cake.
Anything for my Rusty boy. 






The wind died down and we had more people joining us by the minute!
The Figs, my parents, some of my brothers and some friends of theirs
who happen to live in our neighborhood! 












The weather was top notch.
Kids lived in the sand like it was the beach. 




Casey treated everyone to smash burgers!