A Family Tradition

My Dad and Dianne arrived at our house on Christmas Eve afternoon, as well as my step sister, Michelle and her husband Matt. I'm so glad they decided to come spend Christmas with us in Utah!
One of the things that my Dad and I planned to do when he arrived was to make "lefsa"--its a norwegian thing. I kind of liken it to a potato tortilla, but you put butter on it, sprinkle white sugar on it, roll it up and eat it. Lefsa is something that I remember my grandma (my mom's mom) made all the time and we ate it on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I'm so glad that my dad learned how to make it over the years and has perfected the process so that he could teach me. We definitely had to make some for Christmas this year, so Josh and I made the dough the night before. We were ready to "roll" and cook it when Dad got to our house.
I was so happy Allie got involved and wanted to help make it, too. The tradition is being passed down to her now. It was her first time helping out...a very special day indeed!

Christmas Card 2013

Our Christmas Card Photo...

other family photos...

Kids Christmas Program

On Friday, Rob and Allie's school held their annual Christmas program. It was supposed to be the night before, but it was cancelled because we had a huge snow storm (and they were even let out of school early because of it)! 

Rob played an angel and an innkeeper. He was quite busy changing between his costumes! He did an amazing job memorizing his lines.

 Allie's class did a terrific job singing "We Saw Three Ship Come Sailing In On Christmas Day"

Making scarves

One night this week while Josh was preaching a men's discipleship class we made scarves!

Haley from our church came over and taught us how to do it. It is a pretty cool way to make a scarf because you don't use any needles-just your hands and arms.

Rob made one for his teacher, I made one for a Christmas gift, Allie made one for herself, and Marcus was just so happy to play with little Aliyah.

The next day Allie and I each made another scarf. She couldn't wait to make another one. Allie is pretty quick at it. She even finished hers before me! She's thinking of selling them to raise money for Africa. I love your giving heart, Allie!

Church Fellowship

On a Sunday night after service we had a special fellowship called "Coffee, Cocoa & Cookies".

We had tables set up with all the goodies, and even lots of extras to add to the hot cocoa. 

There was a cookie contest with 3 judges and Josh won 4th place with his chocolate chip cookies and Allie & I won 2nd place with my Grandma's recipe for sugar cookies.

(Liz's Snickerpoodle cookie-so cute!)