Happy holidays - With Ash and Paul going on a cruise over Christmas with her in-laws we all enjoyed celebrating a wonderful early Christmas together! Though it has been a tad odd not being surrounded by our own decorations and ornaments, making candy and baking, and all of our Christmas Eve traditions it has been delightful celebrating with the kidlets and enjoying their lovely hospitality!
We've enjoyed attending three of Ashley's students performances as music truly ushers in the magic of the season in my opinion. We had a lovely family night and pre-Christmas morning - such fun being with our little snickerdoodle guy and his fun toys from Santa!
Also Ash surprised me by making one of my long held dreams come true! She arranged with a friend to allow me to actually operate his humongous excavator! Since I was a kid I have longed to experience operating some sort of backhoe or something!! I was taken completely by surprise thinking we were off to take some family pics with some cows LOL and low and behold her friends had it all set up for me to experience this wonderful opportunity! She also made another wish come true - sending us off to Michael McLeans live performance of The Forgotten Carroll's! We have LOVED this music for years and to actually see this stage performance live with he and his family members performing was incredible! It's truly been a delightful on-going Christmas; the best part has been living with Ash and Paul these past few months while our home is finished; we love them with all of our hearts!
Fun card class with Ash!
12/25 Merry Christmas again everyone! Sunshine and palm trees await us. Christmas
with the Christeson's soon to begin. It has been very exciting to meet up with Cameron and Sarah in Vegas to also celebrate Christmas. We've had a terrific Christmas Eve with Cam and now Sarah arrives in time for a
sumptuous family dinner, gift sharing and a special family night
focusing on angels and blessings; and then we are all off in the morning
to do a temple session in the Las Vegas temple! Our spiritual focus
followed by crazy fun for the days to follow. This has been very unique
and exciting holiday thus far.
On our way to meet up with our California kids we enjoyed stopping by our home to see how it is coming along - I am SO EXCITED and can't wait to move in!! All of the fun with Ashley, Paul and Connor combined with Cameron and Sarah plus our recent visits back and forth to our home has made this holiday season very unique and oh so special.
Me and my dear fairy god-mother (literally!) Jane Robinson! I have loved her since I was a child; she was a dear friend of my mom's and over the years she has been such a magical, whimsical influence in my life.
We're in Vegas baby and having the time of our lives!! We miss Cam so very much though very happy for his successful relocation to California with regard to his career in Palo Alto and now engagement to Sarah!!
