CHRISTMAS

I’ll end the year with my favorite cute faces from Christmas. I love Katelyn’s surprised face, Owen’s surprise/Katelyn’s joy in giving to him, Emma’s concentration😂, Whitney’s and Maris’s excitement, and sisterly love. 
Here’s to lots more happiness and love in 2018!

Maris got a camera!! and spent the whole day taking pictures haha.

 

 We got the kids Pass of All Passes for the first time ever; we'll see how it goes.

 The kids and I made Eric a cool handprint craft. :)

 Grammy made the kids cool hangers!

 Emma reading her note from Grammy haha.

 We had fun in Fruit Heights with cousins Cleo, Vivi and Naomi.

These are my top 9 most liked photos from 2017. And they do represent my year pretty well! The only thing missing for me is all the sports and outdoor activities... which is maybe a sign that I don’t take many good pictures of those events....which is a good thing, because I’m too busy enjoying them to take pictures! Yay for life and a new year. It’s going to be great.

December happenings

Around mid-December Emma suddenly started crawling and pulling herself up to stand!  SHe never really army-crawled or scooted or anything, so it was crazy to go from being stationary to crawling and standing in a matter of days!

 This girl.  I love her.  she's in the Primary Presidency with me, Casey Roberts.  They are just renting in our neighborhood, but they've been here almost 2 years and I'm so grateful for her!  This was us at the Night in Bethlehem Primary activity we did during church the Sunday before Christmas.

 We had a big Hansen gathering that same day, and actied out the Christmas story!   With my giant Camel prop I had made for the Primary thing haha.  Karl got the best costume award, all the wise men looked great!

 We had some shepherds...

 angels....

 an adorable Mary and Joseph and Whit was the donkey....

 and an innkeeper and his wife.

 THe angel coming to Mary

 travelling to Bethlehem, hold on!!

 knocking at the door of the inn.

 in the stable, the baby was born!

 angel and shepherds

 choir of angels

 wise men presenting their gifts...

 holy family and donkey....

 and Eric was the narrator. :)

 Emma the riendeer

 audrey and Maris making mangers for preschool....

 We went to a BYU basketball game without Kate!

 gingerbread....

 Emma crawling.....

 Maris' gingerbread house...I guess I missed the rest somehow!!

 I made Emma's stocking, our display is complete!
I FINALLY finished Emma’s stocking!! Just in the nick of time lol. Literally EVERY day in December, at least one of the kids would say to me “mom, Emma really needs a stocking!” They were so concerned for her 🤣. Since she cares so much about presents! But I got it done and it might be my favorite one! Good thing I’m not having any more kids, because I used up every scrap of matching fabric. 
Now I’m excited to have a chill Sunday Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas everyone. Hugs. ❤️❤️🎄

 we made tied-edge flannel blankets for refugees in Bangladesh or Jordan. It was a perfect Christmas Break project!

 Christmas church clothes!

 And more cute pics of crawling EMma!
Eric reminded me this is our last first Christmas 😭 and then he took some cute pictures of Emma to make me feel better. Merry merry Christmas everyone!