Snowy weekend

We enjoyed the snow and cozy time at home over the long weekend!

Sadie's favorite place to sleep this winter

The girls helped make a tie blanket for veterans

We enjoyed sledding down to the pond!

We made snow ice cream with the fresh snow

Winter Break

Winter Break always goes so fast, but after our Christmas celebrations, we really enjoyed some down time at home.  Here is what we were up to:

Lots of Legos

Loved the smell of this simmering on the stove!

Norah's new guitar from Santa

Abby helped me clean and organize the toy room

Lots of snuggles with Sadie

We all loved our new quilts from Miriam!

Norah made a to-do list!

Cozy new sweatshirt from Aunt Lori

Abby did some gift card shopping

Norah had fun with her new Pioneer Woman cookbook

Her chocolate chip scones were delicious!

Face masks!

We finished a few puzzles!

Walks with Sadie

New Year's Eve games

Norah did some more cooking

Lots of reading time

We watched all 3 Pitch Perfect movies!

Norah did some decorating

Cleaned some rugs/carpets with this new toy!

New Year's spread

Christmas

For the first part of winter break, we enjoyed lots of Christmas celebrations.  After my last day of school before winter break, we went to the drive-through light show at Valleyfair:

We made cookies for neighbors and Santa:

We celebrated our little family Christmas on Christmas Eve day:

Dave and I both played for two Christmas Eve services, and Norah played ukulele at both for the prelude:

The girls woke up early Christmas morning:

We drove to Iowa on Christmas Day and spent time with my mom's side of the family.  The girls loved all of the baby time!

We spent that night at my aunt Miriam's and the next day celebrating Christmas with my dad's side of the family.  Miriam surprised us all by making each person a special quilt.

Due to weather, we had to leave Iowa earlier than expected, so celebrated Christmas with my parents and sister in Rochester that evening so that we could head back home in the morning to beat more bad weather.  The only pictures I took in Rochester were of my dad opening funny food-related gifts!  🤪