Happy New Year

We celebrated our new year by witnessing Ella's baptism into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was such a special occassion. I'm glad we were able to spend the day togther and enjoy it as a family.

Washburn Christmas

After Christmas we headed to Grace to spend some time with Matt's family. Glen, Julie and their kids came from Arizona. Tyler, Katie and Brayden made it up from Idaho Falls. I'm glad everyone was able to make it; that doesn't happen very often. We ate great food, played games, enjoyed a wonderful Family Home Evening, and loved every minute of it!

Merry Christmas

3 little Washburn kids awoke early in the wee hours of pre-dawn with much anticipation for the BIG day. They were sent back to bed until a more appropriate hour for present opening could be found.

Within a couple hours we were surrounded with wrapping paper, boxes, baby dolls, dishes, trains, nerf bullets, and a moon dough barn animal or two. We ate breakfast, or rather brunch, in our pajamas and spent the whole day together playing, eating, and lounging.

What could be more perfect than that?

Hope yours was just as wonderful.

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve 2010

Of course I forgot my camera to document our sledding experience Christmas Eve morning.
We drove up South Pass and found a really good sledding hill. We went with some friends that have kids the same age as ours, so we had a great time sledding and chatting with the Plaisteds.
Afterward we headed home and I started dinner. Most of it was edible. Some of it...not so much.
The pretzel jello salad remained in the fridge due to lack of appeal. I even triple dogged dared Matt to try it. However my mashed potatoes, broccoli casserole, and turkey were delicious, so I'm claiming dinner as a success. Jacks would only eat the turkey. He consumed almost half the turkey breast himself.

After dinner we opened our Christmas Eve present. Surprise, surprise! Everyone got jammies!

We read our Christmas story, scriptures, had our family prayer, then the kids effortlessly went to bed. They were all pretty tired from our long day. Matt and I were also pretty tired, little did we know we still had a long night ahead of us. I think I may possibly hate 2 little words "Assembly Required"

Happy Birthday!

I had another one this year

Sometimes it's depressing to think of how close I am to being 3 decades old.

But how can I be sad for long when I have these cute little things reminding me of how sweet life really is?

The Ginger Bread House

We made our first ginger bread house...

Well Matt did.

The rest of us mostly got in the way...

In the end, we all enjoyed the beautiful, edible, candy house.

Until Matt put it up high, where none of us sweet tooth cravers could reach.