Instagram Recap

A boy, his Daddy, his balloon, and a bag of marshmallows... what more can a kid ask for?

Shopping the new outlets with sisters and cousins.

Sarah dumped chocolate milk all over everything, so I ran to find a bathroom... luckily, we found Santa too! This Santa was such a sweetheart and was so kind and cute to Sarah and Benny.

Primary kids' birthday present wall-hangings for 2013.

We finally joined the "Elf on the Shelf" ranks. We loved having "Rosco" around for the season.

A peek inside one of Sarah's purses. I love her little "things".

Reading the instruction manual like a fairy tale book is adorable.

We were invited to the zoo with some friends. Seriously, it was such a perfect day! The weather was great and we got to see all the animals get fed. The polar bear was especially active. It was awesome.

Blaine as Santa at our ward's Christmas breakfast. We had to laugh that Jake and Sarah didn't even realize their daddy was missing... but they made sure to tell him that Santa was wearing "Daddy shoes". Hilarious.

Busting out "Guitar Hero" was maybe one the best things that could have happened to Jakey and his inner-rocker. This boy is so funny.

The kids loved having their own tree in the basement to decorate however they wanted. (So did I, actually.)

One of my very favorite parts of Christmas is using my pretty Christmas dishes for a month. I love them!

Major track-building.

Shoveling snow together. We didn't finish and I only fell twice. (And haven't attempted to shovel snow since!)

The cutest take-home from preschool ever. (Allie's--not mine.)

Two kids all shopped out after a day at University mall. (Their Santa sucked.)

The McFlurry. Delicious.

Sisters are for following each other to various errand destinations so they can run into a store and not have to haul their kids in too.
Here are Kaiya and me hanging out while Michelle was in Home Depot... with Jake and Sarah asleep through it all. :)

My little shopper-elf at Target.

One of my most very favorite things about the holidays is getting Christmas mail! (Peltekians' card killed me this year.)

And the Shermans win for feeding my McDonald's love.

A fun F.H.E. night with Hardys and Hadleys at Gardner Village.

Very cool green tree at Gardner Village.

Waiting for the OBGYN and reading about Christmas wrapping.

My own Christmas wrapping.

I helped to throw a baby shower for my cute friend, Heidi. I'm so happy we are both having baby boys together.

Oh, Sarah... you are such a snuggly sweetheart.

Impromptu lunch-time picnic.

More Rosco shenanigans. And, no... I didn't realize the phallic thing until it was pointed out to me on Instagram. Oops.

Finally getting my "White Christmas" on. Probably my very favorite Christmas movie ever.

Rosco eating cereal.

Michelle outdid herself this year with Kaiya's Barbie birthday party. This life-size Barbie box was amazing... if only it lasted longer than fifteen minutes. 

Temple Square with the Carters. Why I don't have any pictures of Doug, Jen, Brent, Markelle, or any of their kids is beyond me.

Family picture.

Pretty lights.

And a Starbucks snowflake on the way home.

My new H&M ten dollar kicks.

Christmas neighbor gifts: Hot Fudge. I gotta say, I am still pretty proud of how these turned out.

My favorite (received) neighbor gift from our sweet widower across the street. He actually made this!

And finally, Snow White for Snow White. Thanks Aunt Jen (I mean--Van) for this darling doll for Sarah... I don't who is more excited about it though... Sarah or me.