Pride Before the Fall

I took this picture about thirty seconds before she tipped that milkshake over and spilled it all over the table and her clothes.  I would have taken a picture of that, but I was busy cleaning up sticky strawberry milkshake.

Painting Fun

Building Hogwarts

Helping Daddy build the Hogwarts board for the Lego Hogwarts game.  It was actually a pretty fun game!

So close!

Making Christmas Memories

She's only six, but this has become one of my favorite yearly traditions: waiting at the top of the stairs while her daddy starts a fire and gets the camera ready.  It's the epitome of Christmas morning anticipation, complete with her trademark crazy morning hair.

Cookies

The cookie Rachael made just for me. 

Family Picture

We took our own snapshot with the remote.  Believe it or not, this is the picture we didn't use.

School Ornament

Love love love homemade ornaments!

Cookies

We all chose one treat we like for Christmas and Ryan chose sugar cookies. (Rachael picked cake pops, and I picked English Toffee.) Since those were his pick, I made a few Millennium Falcon cookies in addition to the Christmas ones!

Chinese Chocolate

This is how Ryan and the team survive long days working in a factory!

Daddy's Home

Ryan had some extra time in Hong Kong on this trip, and he managed to find this robe ("dressing gown" if you're a fancy girl) for Rachael.  She loves it!

First Annivesary Cake

Last year our friends Josh and Jessie were married in the Louisville Temple.  As a wedding gift I made their wedding cake, my first ever four tier cake.  Jessie had planned to keep the top layer of the cake to eat on their first anniversary, but somehow it got lost, no one knows what happened.  So when their anniversary was coming up she messaged me and asked if I would mind making a new top tier.  (It was much easier to make one six inch cake!) She was thrilled with the cake and I'm excited they were able to celebrate their anniversary without year-old frozen cake.

Sleepover

Since Ryan is in China, we decided it would be fun to have Rachael's friend Madi over for a sleepover.  This is Rachael's time to have a friend over at our house.  The girls had a great time!

More Star Wars Fun

Han Solo Peppermint Bark

Laundry Helper

She dragged this entire basket of clothes downstairs all by herself!

Paper Snowflakes

The snowflake love continues...

Fancy Fingernails

Holly painted fingernails!

Crooked

I'm starting to think this tooth may actually fall out out at some point...

New Ornaments

Can't resist new snowflake ornaments... even though I don't need any more!

Lighted Snowflakes

These are my lighted snowflakes (there are 10 total) that I hang on the front porch every year.  They are one of my favorite Christmas decorations!

Uncle Wiggly

We played the Uncle Wiggly board game for FHE.  It's fun to have Rachael old enough to play!

A Cozy Fire

Marching

So much more fun to march down the street dressed like an elf and twirling a baton when there is someone else to do it with you!

Traditions

I posted this on the family blog too, but I just love how ridiculously happy she gets over the train at Southern Lights.  Every year.

Christmas Countdown

Let the countdown begin!