I am so picky about my Christmas cards actually saying "Merry Christmas" and this year there were hardly any to even choose from! I finally found one I liked though. 2 of my most favorite things during Christmas are getting Christmas cards and the yummiest homemade treats from neighbors. I look forward to them way too much!
This year, for our neighbor gifts, we freeze dried a bunch of candy! Skittles, Salt Water Taffy, Big Hunk and Bit O Honey. I'm not a fan of freeze dried candy, but some people must be because 4oz bags sell for $10 online.
2022 Ornaments
We added more than a few new ornaments to our collection this year! 2 from our cruise to Skagway, Alaska and Seattle, 1 from our family trip to Waco, Texas and each of the kids got a new one. Chase for Kohen, Ballet shoes for Tai's first dance recital this year, and Pikachu for Kasen. We usually just get one new family ornament for the year, but this year we got to visit more than one new place!
We also had a successful round 2 of going to see the Draper Tree of Life! Kohen started a snowball fight while we were there, which Tai ended up losing and then Kyle got me sweet potato fries on the ay home cause Apollo Burger has them! They are all I want right now.
The next day was the First Presidency Christmas Devotional and Kyle made us Oreo cake balls while we watched it together!
With Kyle's family we went to the World of Illumination at the Utah State Fair Grounds. Kohen got to sit on Kyle's lap to help steer the car and was having so much fun dancing to the Christmas music.
Kyle and I also celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary on the 16th!
My parents divorced right before their 11th anniversary, so making it to eleven years was my personal standard of achievement, which is why 11 years feels like a big deal.
I told Kyle he's not allowed to die before we're 73 so that we can celebrate a 50th wedding anniversary together now too!
We celebrated our sealing by going to the Provo City Center Temple to do sealings and then across the street to Comedy Sportz. We also went to dinner and tried Dirty Dough! The Dirty Scoop that comes with ice cream was SO good.
The kids got to go see some lights in Spanish Fork with their cousins while we were on our date and had a blast poking their heads out of the sunroof.
We got to go watch Kasen and Tai sing at the Christmas Sing with their elementary school and my favorite part is watching them come in, looking all over for us, and then as soon as they see us their faces light up and are so happy to see us there! It is the sweetest thing ever.
I also got to go help in Kasen's class with their Christmas party!
They have been the cutest with their prayers this month too. "We know Christmas isn't about the presents, but about being with family and the birth of Jesus."
Tai got to go on her first ever Krista birthday date and got so spoiled! She got to go to Build a Bear and make this cute rainbow bear, which she named Happy. She also got her first lip gloss and a couple cute Christmas sweaters. Thank you Aunt Krista!
Kelsey Degraffenried invited a bunch of neighbors over for hot cocoa, cinnamon rolls, a story and a song again this year and it's my favorite! Heidi and I have even had a couple Hallmark movie nights too. She also invited us to go write uplifting post it notes for the kids to stick on people's cars in the Maceys parking lot. For a few minutes we sat to watch people come out to their cars and smile at their notes. It was so cute to see how excited the kids were to leave notes for people!
We went to Coconut Cove, shopped for sibling gifts, and picked a few of our favorite houses to go watch the dancing lights at! Kasen told our primary class that it's his favorite tradition.
We also watched the Christmas Oranges movie while we ate oranges and bless Tai's heart, she was crying during multiple parts of the movie! It was the sweetest thing how emotional the movie made her.
We also make some snowflakes and stars that the kids hung in our front windows! I love how Kasen was teaching Tai how to make a star and then turn it into a snowflake.
Kids make life so magical!
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