December

I haven't blogged in a few months so here are a few "catch ups"...


We went to Rancho Santa Fe to see The Living Nativity with the Parsons and the Fischer girls. It was such a beautiful evening. We were able to taste real Biblical Cuisines and the girls even rode a camel!

 

Our Motley Crew.

                                      Here they are riding the camel. The lighting was terrible for pictures so this is the best I could do. I wish I got a good one with the camel in it. They were HUGE!


                                                   PIANO RECITAL

 

The girls with their piano teacher, Rebekah Tolopelo.

  

SILLY LIBERTY!

  

  

  

  

MAKING COOKIES WITH GRAMMY

  

Mom bought me a Kitchen Aid mixer. Everytime she comes she gets us something really nice for our home. Growing up she always made cookies for our teachers. I asked her to bring her old recipes and make them with the girls for our local policemen and firemen. We delivered them on Christmas day. This will be one of our new traditions.

  

Tiff looks a little excited here. She always did have a major sweet tooth!

VISITING SANTA

Liberty begged and begged to go see Santa this year. We had to stand in line for hours to see him but it was all worth it. It was precious to see how excited Hannah and Tiffany were for her. Made the LONG wait totally worthwhile!

Waiting patiently.

She said she felt embarrassed here.

Big sisters always make everything better.

 

CHRISTMAS DAY

This was probably our smallest Christmas ever. The girls got only a few gifts. BUT, it was one of our favorites! This was the first Christmas where Liberty actually "got it." The Parsons and Fischer girls joined us for dinner. We ate the goose that Chad shot a few weeks earlier. It was very "gamey"~ a bit like liver. Only a few folks actually liked it, but it sure was beautiful!

Liberty and Grammy reading together. They really grew close over the holidays. They played Little Pet Shop for HOURS each day. Mom got us a Skype camera so they can play together on Skype. After mom went home she even went out and bought her own Pet Shops so she can play with Liberty. How sweet is that???

 

The beautiful goose.

Our special dinner guests.

  

The kids did a Christmas play for us. It was a bit silly (okay...VERY silly), but we all loved laughing together.

 

Chad's folks arrived late and they were starving so we made them their own little romantic spot at the table.

Sleepy heads...

                                                          More sleepy heads.

 

Jesse and Rachel came out on the 27th. Rachel made us all our own blankets. It was a sweet day. Oh how we love them!

TIME AT THE DUCK POND

  

  

  

COUSINS

Haley and Emma came down for a few days. Here are the cousins in Old Town.

The Nutcracker

Last night was the last performance of  "The Truth About the Nutcracker." The girls had SO much fun!!!

The girls and their grandparents.

Hannah Limon with Liberty, Tiffany, Hannah, and Taylor Fischer.

Our Little Angels.

                                                            "Here I Am to Worship..."

Out to dinner with the Limon's between performances.

More sweet angels... Hannah Limon and the girls.

Sarah Whitaker and the girls. They girls were in 3 dances, but the Candy Cane Dance was their favorite by FAR!

 

Hailee Whiddon, Tiff and Elly Whitaker

LOVE these precious girlies!

 

 

 

 

 

Dancin' Granny. :0)

 

The Gang.

Gettin' Nutty after the show.

A Day at the Park

     A few weeks ago our church had an evangelism "carnival." I missed it but Chad took the girls and got these great pictures.

 

Hannah and Jesse

Tiff, Hannah, Katie and Audra

My brave girl.

 

                                                                           LOVE her smile!

Tiffany took all these pictures of the animals...

 

 

 

Thanksgiving

We spend every Thanksgiving in the valley with Chad's folks. This year was no exception and we had a BLAST.

Eatin' the turkey leg...and LOVIN' it!

Family game of pool.

After a long day...

Liberty enjoying her favorite Uncle Eric.

The next day. On the way to ride horses.

Tiffany had a blast!

Liberty and her sweet cousin, Hailey.

Liberty was a little nervous at first and didn't want to ride but that soon changed!

I told Chad to put her on anyway and she loved it!

Can you tell?

Yesterday at dinner we asked the kids what they would do if they could do anything they wanted for a day, Liberty said she would ride horses! Hannah said she would spend the day at Disney Land, and Tiffany said she would spend the day in Heaven and be with Jesus.

 

Heading back home.

Christmas Dinner

Chad and his dad went duck hunting at Lake Henshaw last week. They didn't kill any ducks but they did get a goose! Chad is really enjoying learning to hunt and he says he seems to like duck hunting the best~ it keeps him on the lake!

Chad and his dad looking proud.

Our nutty girl acting like she's killing the goose herself.

Must have stunk pretty bad ~but they still stayed and watched.

Liberty and "Pop-Pop" with the final product. Liberty LOVES watching cooking shows, so this was no big deal for her. She can't wait to eat it!

Our Christmas dinner. HHMMMMM. I'll let ya know how it turns out.