Christmas and new stuff

We had a great christmas this year. My brother and his family came from New York to be with us for christmas. We started out going to a light show in town on Monday. Then Wednesday we went swimming at our fav. Swimming pool. On crhistmas eve we had some friends from our ward come and we put on the story of Jesus' birth for everyone. Nate and I were wiseman. Lilly and her cousin Garrett were sheep. Brooke was mary, Crystal was joseph. Grant was a donkey and Shepard, Aleisha a wiseman and Alaina the angel. Even though it was kind of crazy it was fun. Then nate and our friend bro. Dalley played the guitars and we sang christmas songs.


Garrett the sheep





Christmas Morning



Lilly on her new dinosaur from Grandpa and Grandma. She loves it!


This is a ragged quilt that I had been working on for nate's parent's for christmas. It has all the grandkids handprints and some blank ones for new grandkids. I had to wait to post pics of it til after they got it. But I had fun putting it together. They have 21 grandkids and 1 on the way. Its made out of flannel. When I was thinking about what I wanted to make it out of I wanted it to be comfortable, something that you would want to cuddle up in. So I thought of flannel pjs and I went with that.

Quilt upclose, I embroidered " Families are forever" on the front.

The back

Christmas morning


Garrett and Lilly at the pool


This is my salon that we had been building in our basement for the past year. Nate and I worked on it together. I can now say I have Drywalled and plastered and painted, and laid flooring. It was fun to do together and to have it done. I really enjoy having it in my home where I can stay with lilly but still make some extra money. The salon name is Colette's Salon de Cheveux. I went with a french theme and high fashion. I have coutour pictures on the walls. The phrase "Salon de Cheveux" is french for Hair salon. So I just added my name, so in french it says " Colette's hair salon." My name is also french that's kind of how I got the idea. I hope that makes sense.

Thanksgiving

So this year for thanksgiving we went to Billings, MT where Nate's family is. I'm kind of upset at myself b/c I didn't take any pictures. But we had lots of fun. Nate has 4 siblings that live in MT. Only one that lives in Utah. We were able to visit all 4 families and spend some time with them individually which was really nice and Lilly had so much fun with all her cousins. She loves little kids and trys to hug them everytime she sees a little kid like her. Nates nephew Kade who is just one month older than Lilly was scared of her the first time he met her but lilly went right up to him and hugged him than he started crying. Every night lilly went to bed sweating from playing so much. We appreciate all the families and nate's parents for having us!! Nate got up at 4am in the morning on Black friday to get a pistol for 200 when it is usually 400. There were only 50 of them. So he was pretty excited to get it and I'm excited b/c now I don't have to hear him say how much he wants another gun, and that he didn't have to pay 400! But we had a great time!