Life as We Know It: 'Tis the Season 2014

This post is a general photo dump/musing about what went down during the days of December leading up to Christmas. It was a fun, busy time for us!

I was super stoked to make our Christmas cards this year using our new family photos!

Our traditional chocolate Advent calendars.

Ordering soap online to be shipped to ND in winter has its risks...it arrived frozen solid.

Ward Christmas party. Only Tucker would consent to a photo op with Santa.

People were very impressed with our spray snow window decor.

I made super delicious Symphony fudge and peanut brittle to hand out to friends and Kev's co-workers.

Kevin and I celebrated our TENTH wedding anniversary on December 11, 2014. We survived a decade of marriage...take that, you naysayers!

The closet made for a great hiding spot for gifts...I always put off wrapping as long as I can.

Seeing the light display at Spring Lake park is super fun! My little family loves it and tries to go to as many activities as we can.

Movies at Spring Lake with friends!

Kyan and Tucker had a Christmas concert for school and we couldn't leave Jaxon out of the photo.

The day came that I had been dreading since that call in November. Emily was moving to Houston and we decided to start our Christmas road trip to Vernal a little earlier than planned. Emily stopped by my house before we left to grab bananas and say goodbye. We managed one great photo and then dissolved into sobs. I basically cried until we reached Sidney, Montana. I had to force myself to stop when Kevin threatened to leave me there.

Utah here we come!

It was a long snowy drive.

We didn't tell my mom we had left ND earlier than planned but my dad knew. The drive took forever....and right as we got down to the last two hours of the trip, the road was closed due to a fatal accident. Argh. Called dad in a panic, and he rerouted us. It took a bit longer than planned but we pulled in my mom's driveway and called her and said, "Merry Christmas!" as we rang her doorbell....she was VERY happy to see her babies!

We had to have our most favorite breakfast of fried mush. MMMMM!!

We took Blue to the groomers and he looked ever so much better!

My dad's parents celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on December 20! I'm continually impressed at their love and dedication to one another. They are such an example to me! We all went to dinner to celebrate and then chatted at their home for awhile.