A Good Gift

These pictures might not mean much to you.  But to me, they are awesome! You see, our city put an enormous bike lane sign right in the middle of our yard.  At 3 feet wide and 2.5 feet tall and mounted onto a 10 foot pole, I was annoyed with the way it commercialized our home.  It also ruined our landscape as an ugly eyesore.  I pleaded with the city back in October to move it down to the edge of our property instead of smack in the middle.  They gave me no promises or indication they would help me.  But around 2 months later, they moved it down to the west edge of our property.  And they even had to dig through snow and cement to move it.  Yay for a good view again and that it's not in my vision every time I look outside the window!!

December 2015

 The first part of the month was mild.

Then 27 inches of snow came down all at once. And they didn't even cancel school!

We celebrated Aunt Lisa's birthday at Cowboy Grub.

Built trains at Home Depot.

We ventured to the Festival of Trees where we had a good time and Lincoln got to talk to an elf.

Sterling's class decorated gingerbread houses.

And Grandma Vickie helped Makayla create one too.

Breakfast with Grandma Bjarnson was a wonderful time.

Santa came to our ward party.

And to the Hebdon party.

We went on a date to the Tabernacle Christmas concert.  

The concert was festive and uplifting.

We had 13 extra guests for the weekend because Scott's family joined us for the concert.  We don't see that side enough.

We visited the 'Tree of Life' up the street at the cemetery.

We worked most of the month on this puzzle and never finished.  1500 pieces is just too many!  We are more of a 500 to 750 piece family.

Lincoln enjoyed his class party.

Nickelmania was great!

Sterling lost another tooth on the 29th.  This is tooth #2 lost for him, although his first tooth was really lost, like he never collected from the tooth fairy.  This was his first paid tooth :)  The going rate is $2 around here.

We spent as much time as we could with cousins over the break in between sickness.

The girls got together for a lunch at Cheesecake factory.  We need to do that more than once every 10 years.

We played with toys.

And Scott made a yummy nougat candy just like one from the store.

We hosted the New Year's Eve party at our home for my side of the family.

At midnight, Scott lit a huge firework.

We hope 2016 is a better year than 2015.

Our family by Makayla.