December

December looked like this:

In December:

-We decorated for Christmas, and by we, I mean "I".  

-Lost 39.9 lbs. Still haven't made it to 40.  Todd has lost 45!

-Took a last minute quilt for a friend whose husband is a firefighter/paramedic.  It was fun to pull this off for her.

-We got A LOT of snow.  More pics below.

-Dillon got a special award at school for being a good example.  Way to go Dillon!

-We attended Brayden and Caleb's orchestra concert

-It got cold. I had to scrape my car windows. It wasn't pretty.

-We saw the live Nativity at Tuacahn

-Justin sat on Santa's lap and asked for a "rainbow present"

-I Put the tree in a pot, and it only fell down twice. The kids tree was really endearing, and Justin especially loved the rainbow lights.

-I discovered a new painting of my 4th great-grandmother, Drusilla Doris Hendricks.  I got one for my parents, and one for myself (mine should be here this week...I can't wait!)

Our six inches of snow was the most our city has seen in a long time--I've heard everything from 75-150 years.  It will suffice to say that it was a once-in-a-lifetime storm, and we took advantage of it.  Church was cancelled, and we spent the day playing in the powder.

Christmas came and went, and we were spoiled rotten as usual.  There was a moment of panic when I ran out of scotch tape at 12:28 AM and there were still more presents to wrap, but Todd came to the rescue when he found an old box of office supplies in the garage.

We played hard, relaxed our day away, and then Todd continued to work on his gift to me.  He is building me a base for the hutch I bought at DI last year.  It will go in my quilting studio and I'll use it to store fabric.  It's almost finished, but we can't paint it until we get some of the work in our basement done.  We need the garage space to cut drywall.  So...I'll post more pics when we get it done.

Somehow Grandma escaped all the pictures, but we loved having Todd's mom with us for the day.  Now that she lives here for six months out of the year, we get to spend more time with her and we love having her close by.  She has been very supportive of our crazy diet, and for Christmas dinner we had fresh salmon, green beans, and baked sweet potatoes. Yum!