December. What's not to love about December? It's a beautiful month with a special little uplifting spirit about it. Here are a ton of photos of our activities and day to day life.
Getting our Christmas tree!
This year we went with our dobles and Crawford's just down the road and each of us picked out our own tree. The kids LOVE this every year!
My mom gave me these cute snowmen that were my Grandma Alders that she had made,
My tree may have been bare, but my windows and other parts of the house are decorated nicely. Thanks Gwen.
She gets most of her decorating inspiration pant-less.... ;)
The kids saw a glimpse of a snow one day. It barely stuck to the ground, but it was pretty while it fell.
Otis... our little cutie! Otis at 7 months....
He used to wrap his legs around my arm when I fed him. :)
During church one Sunday, I stopped and couldn't even handle how cute this kid was. AND how
grown up he looked.
I can never get enough of sleeping pictures.
Quinn can NEVER get enough of her little Otie bear!
A friend of Gwen's was having a little birthday party and Gwen wanted me to make him a Batman hat.
My younger self was very annoyed with me this day. ;) Twins!
Otis is a favorite in my primary class..
Our Primary put together a cute little program for our ward Christmas party. I made these three hats; two cows and a donkey. These three did their part perfectly!!
Coen, Gwen & Finn
We went to a cool Nativity museum type thing that another Stake puts together every year. It's a gym full of different nativities from all over the world. It was pretty cool.
When hanging out at Grandma's house... we MUST have a bowl (or three) of cereal. :)
We also went to the Portland Runway in the Dobles motor home and enjoyed a bunch of Christmas lights.
More of Otie Coyote!
Woke up with his arm out :)
Elder Ricker the 4th came home from his mission in Sweden. We were all SO excited to have him home.
Otis with Jade
Some of the Ricker clan...
The kids and Santa Clause...
Kathy and John gave us an early Christmas present... passes for Cosmic tubing up on the Mountain. Soy and Finn joined us and Les & Josh.
Amber and Shawn's wedding! Amber was beautiful and it was the cutest little wedding.
The happy couple...
Another Sunday... Oscar with Teri's necklace and Leslie's treats... AND that's Oscar ladies and gentlemen. ;)
Otie's a rock-star in my class... ;)
Christmas Eve at the Rickers
All ready for bed full of excitement!
The kids Christmas morning...
We go each other boots!
Christmas at the Rickers... this is Gwen holding her new horse set she got from Santa
We had Quinn and Avie over a few times during Christmas break. Enjoying their new little table
Dinner with friends...
Me, Sara Winn, Amy Lambert, Les, Tara Gunderson and Tiff Holwedge
Oscar! :)
Oscar wanted to hold the ipod while going to the bathroom and I told him no. Next thing I know he's multi-tasking... ;)
For how chubby his cheeks are, we were cracking up at his fish face... his sucks those cheeks in pretty darn good. ;)
Gwen always comes home with cute little projects and if it's a hat, she'll wear it all week. :)
And that's December! Minus photos from Jay's phone... I'll post those soon.
