Christmas Vacation!

Laex had two weeks off for Christmas/Winter break and we were busy having fun the whole time :)

Lots of  movie nights followed by sleeping in the living room on a blow up mattress!

Papa & Grammie came and spent 4 days with us over Christmas and the kids were in heaven!  Loa got to harass Papa all she wanted :)

We spent a day doing random acts of service --the kids had fun leaving candy canes on car windows, taping quarters to vending machines & passing out gift cards to people out shoveling snow.  We also enjoyed some Chinese food as is tradition in LeGrand's family at Christmas.

While we were out we went to Hooper Springs where we got to taste the fresh soda spring (which would be what Soda Springs, ID is named after) it was disgusting but we all tasted it :)

We had a little birthday cake and sang Happy Birthday to Jesus & Joseph Smith.

Spreading Reindeer food & Setting out Cookies & Carrots on Christmas Eve

 We had a fun Christmas morning, and a chill day

We went sledding in the afternoon, the weather was beautiful!

After all the fun, Grammie and Papa headed home the day after Christmas and LeGrand headed back to work.  It was a total let down :/  we had so much fun playing games for days and eating lots of yummy food that we had to take a couple days to get back in the grind!

December!

I'm obviously behind, I can't believe how crazy life gets around the holidays!

We had a fun month of December

Lytzi is cute as ever!  Growing like a weed and so much fun! 

I caught Loa on two different occasions making her name out of objects she found around the house.  She is SO creative, sometimes the creativity makes me CRAZY (like when she insists on playing with her food) but other times I'm so impressed!

I wasn't feeling good toward the beginning of the month & LeGrand brought me breakfast in bed --I had to document it because it is the FIRST time this has ever happened (and we've been married more than 11 years) he's getting better & better :)

We made yummy treats for our neighbors!

Laex played piano in his first talent show at his school and did great!

November!

A super cute growing Chunk!

A beautiful morning sunrise greeted me after a good sweaty morning workout!

Our First snowman of the season!

Laexin's school received an award for being one of Idahos most distinguished schools - only 7 out of 1800 schools received this award!

We had a great Thanksgiving in Vernal.  I always manage to forget to take pictures.  It was a fun time with all of the Hoopes clan and all of the cousins together.  The kids had a blast playing and we enjoyed lots of yummy food!

The 25th of November we put our Saratoga Springs home on the market, on the 26th we had a full price offer.  We were very worried when our renters gave us notice that they would be moving out in December instead of the spring, it's just not the best time to sell a home in the middle of winter.  But, we feel so blessed that things happened so fast for us, like it was meant to be. We are to close the 14th of January, hopefully all will continue to work out.

Kids had a dental appointment, Loa did great for her first time!