December

The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is usually pretty insane. My birthday is on the 4th, grandpa Heber's birthday is on the 2nd, and this year a big party was planned for him at the Border to celebrate.

Hanukkah started December 6 so it was earlier this year and then the annual EHS Christmas Banquet.

 I was testing out my camera to see if I even remembered how to use it. ;)

 Grandpa is 87!

 Mom, Jenna, and Danielle wanted to represent grandpa's love of his chickens and gardening on the cake.

 Britton is my crazy boy

 Clara is spoiled by everyone.

 Walking to school.

 Rehearsal night

 Clara doesn't like to stay up past bedtime.

 The next morning was rough.

 Lighting the Hanukkiah 

 I usually help decorate/ set tables both days for the banquets

 It snowed and the lights on the trees looked so pretty!

I ended up helping in the kitchen on the last night of the banquet.

Clara got an Elsa (Frozen) shirt for Hanukkah and it quickly became the favorite shirt that she wanted to wear morning and night! So we had to take breaks to wash said shirt, and she  wanted to keep track of where it was and when it would be done. 

Last night of Hanukkah

Christmas 2015

It snowed Christmas Eve, so we actually woke up to a white Christmas.

Gwendy brought a new puppy to brunch and the kids thought the puppy was pretty cute.

(A few of these pictures Sharon took, probably the good ones.) ;)

Our Christmas Dinner was small, we had a little under 50 people. I prepared the prime rib this year as well as helping with the decorating, and I did an herb rub on it for a few days, and then Janille helped me figure out cooking times. I think it turned out tasty, I got Dean H's thumbs up and that means something. :D 

Sharon made various flavors of ice cream rolls and that was yummy!

Thankfully, we had a lot of help decorating and it went really fast so we had time to work on other things....like the meal! ☺

After the meal some of the family congregated over at our house for fun and games!

Nativity Play and Candlelight Service 2015

This year Aidan was a wiseman,

Ella was Mary,

Britton was a shepherd,

and Clara was Queen Elsa Angel. 

(That was the only way we could get her to put the angel outfit on)

Ella danced while Kayli sang a solo.

Clara did not want to stick with the other angels.