Ava Gets a Daddy Date

 

Little Ava turns 5

 Ava is a treasure. She is so easy and sweet and fun and wonderful. She never gets in trouble, she just spreads all her love and joy everywhere she goes. 

Christmas 2017

Arbon family Christmas party with Family Feud and food. Christmas Eve dinner with the Englishes that included dinner, acting out the Nativity, visiting Granny, and The Night Before Christmas. Christmas Eve at home with cookies, letters to Santa and the most excited, adorable children in the world. 

Mason and Brielle both asked for hoverboards but we didn't think Santa would be willing to do something so expensive. Ava asked for a book and  Bus asked for a robot.

It was a perfect Christmas Day.

Granny turns 95

My sweet Granny moved out of my mom's house and into and back into an assisted living when my mom found out that she had cancer. Taking care of Granny would have been too hard, and Granny wanted to move back there. She has been moving around pretty frequently since she sold her house. Aunt Judy's, my mom's, back to Aunt Judy's, to the assisted living, but to Judy's, back to my mom's. Around and around. She's been slowly getting less and less independent, which makes sense. She is getting old.

She is still the sweetest Granny though. She loves having the kids come for short visits and they love seeing her. The way her face lights up and the way my kids hug and chat with her makes my day. We went to her place to take her dinner and birthday cake on Christmas Eve.

Perry friends holiday party

I decided that I wanted to throw a little party at my house for our friends from our Perry ward. Only one of the couples still lives there, but I get together with the girls about once a month for dinner and late night chats. Originally I wanted it to be a fancy dinner. Then we thought it would be funny if we really dressed up and wore prom dresses. So several of us went to DI and got some sweet 90's dresses. Then like two days before, Kayla Stoker informed me that she wasn't going to do that. So just just told everyone to wear their Christmas PJs.

It turned out to be a great time. We mostly just ate and talked but those are some of my favorite things to do! I love these girls.