Sick Day

So sickness has caught up with us this season. Adelia has been throwing up and has a fever. She has handled it well and we have watched WAY too many movies in the last few days. Hopefully it will be short-lived and the rest of us won't get it. Cross our fingers. I am just glad that Christmas wasn't this weekend.

Meeting Santa

This past weekend we attended a family Christmas party and Santa came! Adelia and Tucker were so excited to see him, but less excited to sit on his lap. Adelia did pretty well but Tucker did not want to get near him. Christmastime is so fun. Adelia and Tucker are so excited!

Mormon.org

We love the "Our People" section of the mormon.org website. It is so interesting to learn about different people's lives. They all have such different personalities and interests. Some of them talk about their testimonies of Jesus Christ and why they have joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but most of them just talk about what their life is like. We LOVE it and have watched every video within a few days of it being posted. If you have some time to look at something worthwhile online, this is it!

Funny Story

I have been trying to get Adelia to turn off lights by telling her that we save money that way that we can use for fun stuff. The other day she went around the house and turned off all the lights and said, "Is our money safe now?"

Our Christmas Tree

Hooray! Christmas is coming. I LOVE this time of year. Adelia and Tucker (and Andrew and I) were excited to get a Christmas tree. Adelia thought it was so funny that we put the tree on top of our car to take it home. She said it looked like our car had a hat on it. We had fun decorating, however Adelia and Tucker still haven't grasped the concept that decorating was a one-time thing. They are often moving ornaments around or playing with the candy canes. It is so much more fun to have Christmas with them though. They are the perfect age to get excited about everything but not disappointed about anything. So fun!

Post of Gratitude

I am so grateful for good people. I made the dumb mistake of leaving my wallet in a cart in a parking lot the other day. Yikes! Somebody turned it in and nothing happened (except I had a very stressful hour) but it was a good reminder for me of the good in people. It seems like we hear so much about the other side of people in the media and it was just the reminder I needed as Christmas is approaching and I want to love others more.

Tucker's Birthday

Tucker loved his birthday. We actually had two parties but I only have pictures from our small little family party. We love having him in our family. He is so much fun!

We couldn't find our birthday candles so we just used tealight ones. Tucker didn't actually blow out his candles, he asked Adelia to do it. However he was willing to pretend for a picture!

His Elmo Birthday Cake. We were pretty proud of it but it was really easy becuase we just used a Cricut Cake. The hardest part was that we bought all white fondant and had to drop-by-drop dye it the color we needed. It was fun!