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Friday, January 24, 2014

Random January

Abi was able to start Miss Manners back up with her grandmother. (Doug's mom) 
There were a few weeks that they couldn't do it so she was really excited to be going back.


Last Friday Abi came home and told me that a karate place had come to her school and done a first lesson for gym. That night they were invited to come to the studio and do the second class for free.
Obviously they are trying to get people to sign up but she really wanted to go so I took her and Maddy over.
She really enjoyed it.
By the end of the class she broke the board and earned a white belt.



The kids got free pizza, water bottles, and cookies too.



Last Saturday Brent (my brother) and Karen came over to play games and have pizza with us.
They brought a yummy dessert and this Boom Boom Balloon game.
It was pretty fun.




We also played Wits and Wagers.

Monday I had an appointment with my first doctor and the girls were super excited to go to my sister Steph's house while I was gone. 


Tuesday, Maddy fell down the stairs and landed on the kitchen floor flat on her face. 
Her face and especially lip were swollen and there were cuts on the inside and outside of her mouth.
I called my sister to see if she had any popsicles and she did so we rushed over to her house (up the street) and she gave us an entire box of Otter Pops. 
That's pretty much all she ate that day because it hurt to eat food.
This first picture is crazy because it doesn't even look like her.

I have somehow given the girls the idea that if they get hurt, they need to sleep because it will make them feel better so it wasn't long before I found Maddy asleep in the front room.

Yesterday my mom came over to have a Doctor Who marathon with me. 
I have slowly been getting her over to watch the whole show because she has only seen a few episodes over the last few months.... but she is now on season 3.
I have had a crazy busy week with all of my doctor appts. so it was really nice to have a day where I could just hang out with her and watch a fun show.

Abigaill got baptized!


On January 4th 2014, Abigail was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
We gave her her own copy of the Book of Mormon last summer and she has been working her way through it herself. She made it to the very end of 2nd Nephi.
We gave her the choice of if she wanted to get baptized and she wanted to.


Abi wanted CTR cookies and pink lemonade for the after party. So, I stayed up late making these cookies. It was hard but totally worth it when I saw the look on her face the next morning.

It was awesome to see her baptized by her dad. 
Many of our family were able to make it. It was very special.
Afterward, everyone came back to our house and had treats. 
Abi opened a few gifts.

My parents gave her a really nice triple combination with her name on it and scripture marking pencils.
Doug's parents gave her the cute pink scripture tote, tissues, bracelet, and articles of faith card.
Brent and Karen's family gave her the baptism memory book.
Dan and Steph gave her a cute card with gumballs. 


We decided to get a picture of Abi with the men that were in the circle with her, but most of them had left already. We decided to at least do it with those that were still over.
My dad, Doug and Abi, my brother in law Dan.
It was a very special day!

New Years Eve

This year I was really excited to be back here for New years Eve. My family used to always get together for a big bash. But now that everyone else has teenagers, they tend to do their own thing.
So, I asked my parents if they would come over. 
We were so happy to have them.
I did our yearly tradition by taking the ornaments off of the tree and decorating it with purple and silver balloons filled with anywhere from .1 to $1. Then we took turns popping them throughout the night.


Doug and I usually have appetizer type food for New Years so we made some and my parents brought some. I made chicken wings and jalepeno poppers and had chips and cheesy salsa out.
My mom made little crescent smokies and crackers with a yummy cheeseball.
She also brought stuff to make Ice cream sundaes.

I had glow bracelets for everyone to wear.
We played a few games. 
The first one we played was one my parents gave us for Christmas: Wits and Wagers. It was a lot of fun.

Abi did a little show for us using my May pole.

Of course we opened our English crackers.



It was a great night capped off with sparkling cider and a confetti rocket. 

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Christmas Eve

We love Christmas Eve!

We spent the afternoon relaxing and watched Muppet Christmas Carol

Then we dug into the Christmas Eve bag


Abi gave me a cute gift.
We opened our new pajamas and books.



We opened our new board game and played a round.




We got on our new jammies and the girls headed off to bed.

Abi almost caught Santa Claus as he left a stuffed animal next to her in bed... so it was an exciting night!

Van Wagenen family party

We did a progressive party but I don't have any pictures from Steve and Samantha's house or our house.
Each house had to do food of some kind and an activity.
At Mark and Callie's house they had a young woman from their ward there doing face painting.


Abi and Kassandra


Strauss did this mask and then a few of the other boys did as well.


Kassandra and Abi did the same design on one of their cheeks.
Then we went to Doug's parents house for the rest of the night.
We played Bingo.


Then we opened gifts.
We got a rocket launching set from Robert's family.
The kids got Christmas jammies from Doug's parents.


Maddy put both of the huge stockings on her legs.