Craziest Christmas ever! Won't give details here, just want to document a few pictures for family. Christmas morning at home, then drove down to Salt Lake for Hill family fun, then to Logan for our sweet Grandma Floy's funeral, then back to Salt Lake, then home. We needed a vacation from our vacation.
Christmas morning, 7:00 a.m. SO EXCITED!
Beth FINALLY got her robe! (Like the decorated-halfway-up tree?)
How Oliver spent Christmas - reorganizing our spice cupboard. Little boy heaven!
Grandma & Grandpa Hill's house - LOVE IT. (I think we're watching a cool documentary on a sea turtle? Maybe?)
Still a little boy, despite his pant size, wink.
Games at the Hill House! This is the best!
Putting on makeup with the girl cousins. Beth lives the year for this!
Dance Party at the cousin's house! Shake it.
COOLEST TRACK EVER. I need to find this for Oliver's birthday so that Connor can play with it, wink.
Salt Lake at Baby Jacob's grave, explaining to kiddos what each part of the gravestone means. Too personal for blog, but very very cool.
Beth & Aunt Hannah picked out the flowers. Gorgeous.
Temple Square with Hill cousins!
Our family picture for the trip, and so us! Dave & me - keeping it together; Connor - being a good sport after killing himself in the rosebush; Beth - working it; Tyler - the wilder the better; Oliver - "It's going to get better, Mom, right?!?!?"
Our temple, big big smile.
Logan - Special moment for me, watching my daughter walk up the same beloved hill behind Grandma's house that I grew up walking/running/rolling down/pretending/wrestling. Sigh, perfect moment.
Grandma's living room - how I'll always picture it. Those couches are so soft.
One of Grandma's dressers with pictures of Grandma Floy & Grandpa Walter. Love it.
So them.
Gorgeous, gorgeous day. The Bishop joked that Grandma had already become the angel in charge of weather - 55 degrees on December 30 in Logan, my word! I think it just reflected how happy she was.
Stu & Grandpa. (Did I mention the gorgeous flowers? Gorgeous!)
Oliver - Why am I wearing a hat when others aren't even wearing coats?
That's better!
The famous Christmas cactus! My original one was trimmed off of this one Grandma got for her anniversary 50? 60? years ago (Gotta get the true story on that, anyone know?!), and now there are four of them in my home. This one bloom was gorgeous on Grandma's day.
Scrubbing feet in the bathroom in Logan!
My sweet cousin-in-law helping and being a good sport. Thank you! It was appropriate, Grandma had the softest skin of anyone we know - Why not soften ours in her bathroom? Perfect.
These boys would rather play chess than do their feet.
Back at Hill House for New Years. Oliver is working it with Aunt Andrea and not going to bed.
I don't know what story I'm telling here, but it is mesmerizing!
Thanks for all the family we got to see! It was crazy, wonderful!
...snacks are handed to us at random places by a tired mom who is just happy we took a seat.
...Sunday evenings are spent watching Backyardigans on Mom's kindle just so there is peace in the house.
...we regularly spend an entire hour in a tub/swimming pool pretending to get clean.
...another hour is spent playing with the bunnies on sister's bed and not realizing that we're learning anything, wink.
...our neat daddy builds the coolest rabbit hutch we've ever seen, and we actually take for granted that he does these wonderful things for us because they are sweetly commonplace.
