Sunday, December 30, 2012

Pre-Christmas 2012

On December 18th, we started the long drive to Grammy's house!
We stopped in Park City, Utah on the way to have a little fun-
Dad went skiing with Uncle Harry and we girls shopped and went to the movies!
Hooray! We made it at last!
Baking cookies with Grammy & cousins
Nice work Aunt Becky!
Dad set up his train and felt like a kid again :)
Ellie loved on this cutie
We made gingerbread houses!
We have to convert the garage into a living room for enough space for our big brood. Ellie helped with a little cleaning. How do you like them stockings?!?!
On Christmas Eve, we got to participate in a service project for a needy family in the area- the girls loved getting to wrap gifts for some little boys in need!
Then came the white elephant exchange! Papa Perry actually got a white elephant!
Christmas Eve evening, we got to spend a little time with the Douglass side opening gifts. The girls got new pillows and pillowcases from Grandma, which led to an impromptu pillow fight. The girls wailed on Grandma while the rest of us were laughing to hard to help her!
New Christmas Jammies! Thanks Grandma!
One more sleep 'til Christmas!

Sunday, December 9, 2012

PreFinals Vacation

Ben's classmate, Chris, was kind enough again to let us use her town home up at Copper Mountain for a little R&R before school really heated up for Ben with finals.
There was a lot of this going on:
We woke up to this!!!
Our friends' little boy, Callum Foulger, and the girls were all buds
There was just enough snow to play in for a few minutes. Unfortunately, it was like a thousand tiny ice crystals, so no snowballs fights or snowman building could ensue :(
Skiing with Dad is always fun!
Some of the humorous events of the trip:
Vacation: by Ellie Douglass
The drive home was sad, but beautiful!
We feel so blessed to have such wonderful friends who are generous and kind! We had a wonderful trip and it was much needed! Thanks Chris!!!

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Christmas Cookie Exchange

We love to make Christmas cookies!!! I had a great reason this year too- we had a Christmas treat exchange for our relief society activity this month. The girls had so much fun helping.

Brook mixed in some red food coloring
Ellie did what she does best: smashed!
Both girls got to roll out and shape candy canes
The final treat plate to take to the activity-
Candy Cane Cookies (My momma's recipe)
Chocolate Dipped Macaroons (Paula Deen's recipe)
Brook was so excited with how her cookies turned out!
And she was thrilled that they tasted even better!