The Holidays

Winter is here and so is the new year. Another year come and gone. The holiday bustle is finally over. I thought I would share a glimpse into our holidays and more importantly, pictures. Let's be real, that's what you really want to see, right?



HALLOWEEN

Growing up, I use to LOVE Halloween. The spookiness, grimness and dressing up. But, as I've gotten older and have kids of my own, I love and hate it at the same time. It's fun to see the boys dress (and I still do dress up). But I hate the candy aspect. I want to throw that part out the window. Why? Just why? What justifies getting a ton of free candy and eating until we are sick? I don't understand and I'd rather find a new tradition.



















THANKSGIVING

We had Kathy (Adam's mother) and Natalie (my sister) over for Thanksgiving dinner. I cooked the turkey, which was really moist and delicious. But, I don't want to go through all that work anymore. From now on, I'm just going to buy turkey breasts and call that good. Then, the rest of my family came over and brought pies. My favorite part of the Thanksgiving season though, was the Thankful Tree we did this year. I made a chain for each of us. Each day, we took off a chain, wrote something we were grateful for, cut it into a leaf and taped it on our tree. We all loved it. It was kind of a shame to take it down. A tradition to keep going for sure.








CHRISTMAS

We spent Christmas morning at our house. Plus, we started a new tradition. Adam and I went into the boys room, and before we even went out for gifts, we knelt down in prayer. We prayed for the gratitude of the birth of our Savior and that we may be grateful for all that we were about to receive. It really set the mood and it was one of my favorite parts of the day. We later went to my parents house and opened some gifts there. It was then a very relaxed day and just hanging out. Then we decided to go see the new Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse. Which was awesome. We all loved it. I love Christmas. I love my family.







NEW YEAR

Did we stay up until midnight? Of course... not. It is extremely rare for us to do late nights. But, we did buy pizza, breadsticks and cookie dough from Papa Murphy's and watch a movie with the boys. Which was fun and they enjoyed eating on the floor. They still went to bed on time and so did we. And guess what? The new year still came. We are perfectly content with not staying up late and upsetting our bodies and minds just to ring in the new year.

There you go. Our Holidays.