The lead up to Christmas was filled with decorating, cooking, cousins' breakfast, concerts, dinners out with friends, church Christmas programs, birthdays, temple preview tours, MOA visits, dinners out with family, sledding, Ann's stout cake, cousins' sleepover, and daily walks.
An encounter with Santa at La Casita in early December
Cousin Millie and SKT at cousins' breakfast in SLC
Such a beautiful mountain
Sunrise on a morning walk
Downtown Provo on a morning walk
Baklava is fussy but delicious
Timpview High School concert
Most of the Ensigns at Max's concert
New photos all carefully hung with a 13th addition
Dinner at La Jolla Groves with the Group
Meeting every month for almost 50 years
Riverwoods all decked out for Christmas
The infamous bonding bib made a hilarious reappearance
Maxwell sang in a quartet at the 5th Ward program
Madeline left her teen-age years behind this year
The contractors turned the new temple over to the church and
the fences all came down
The Ostergars gave us a sneak preview
We visited the MOA to see the work of Norman Rockwell
Group selfie at the museum
Dinner that night at La Casita
We almost filled the entire back room
Madi and Max keeping Gavin entertained
A beautiful morning snow storm that turned into a
freezing blizzard on a morning walk
Sledding at Rock Canyon Park
The sledders
Gavin caught the crazy old man at work
Finn and Holden just centimeters from a dangerous crash
The Taylor cousins enjoying Ann's stout cake
Phillip and Meagan hosted a sleepover for all the cousins
Good times with more to come. That's all for now.
OXO
D.
