First Daugs gathering of the week....homemade donuts at the farmhouse.
Dad and I enjoying a minute at a favorite spot by the wood stove.
So very tasty! And a favorite tradition for sure!
Love these two angel boys! Getting a picture with them is a challenge for sure! For some reason this night Cole thought everything was hilarious!
Rachie headed up the donut making. Thanks Rach!
The boys being weird. Trying to find a ball, apparently hidden somewhere on Ammon.
Five of the seven sisters. Missed the other two northwest sistas!
Rachel planned the party, and it was perfect! The most calm, organized Christmas party EVER!
The kids each got to decorate graham cracker gingerbread houses.
Cole was walking all over the place! I had no idea he could walk that well. Nate says he only does it at church for the drinking fountain! Ellie played "Silent Night" on the piano, and I recited an on-the-spot poem.
So glad Jeff and Mary were there to represent the Whyte family! They are always awesome to drive far for a short party!
Final party game was in indoor paper snowball fight. It was so funny!
Somehow Naomi got Kim to bring her two tins of homemade raisin-filled cookies! What?? I had to eat one!
On the 30th, some of us headed to Salt Lake to brave the elements and spend some time together. First stop was for dinner at The Lion House Pantry. Yummy food, and great place to sit and eat together. It was our little family, Nate and Naomi and three kids, Ammon and Alison and two kids, and Jeff and Mary.
We braved the cold to see the lights at temple square. It was only eight degrees! 8!!
The Joseph Smith Memorial building is always a fun stop. The huge parlor room, and of course the 10th floor view are the best. The kids kinda liked the elevators too!
We walked through City Creek and made a couple of stops.
These two girls sure have a great time together! 100% GIRL!
After we had our fill of the freezer, we headed to the Hyatt in Sandy. Naomi had three free rooms for us, thanks to food bank donations in November!
The kids headed straight for the pool. The OUTDOOR pool! Yes in the eight degree weather! Darin and Ammon went with them. I could hardly stand being out there to snap a few pictures! The rest of us stayed inside chatting.
Game time! We left all the kids together in one hotel room to play games together. (Cutler and Bailee stayed with the adults.) And the adults played games in one of the other rooms. Jeff and Mary didn't sleep over but it was so fun and funny to play games with them!
Besides swimming, the highlight of all hotel stays, for the kids, is breakfast! It was a great breakfast buffet with made-to-order omelets, and snacks for the road.
Too cold to do anything outside....even winter activities were out. It was freeeeezing!! So we explored Scheels for an hour. Rode the ferris wheel, checked out the exhibits, etc.
Last stop, the Kaysville dollar theater. We saw "Alexander and the horrible Day". Dollar theaters are the best! Even the concessions were low cost! But here's the shocker for the day....Ammon had not been to a movie in a theater in over TEN YEARS!! Avery had never been to a movie in the theater with his dad! Ammon was thinking it was all so expensive! Wait til he goes to a regular priced theater! Well, he probably never will!
Our last couple of days in Utah we were with the Jones family mostly. But we are lucky to have both sides of our families blend together so easily. Earlier in the week Ada spent time at the Jones plantation. And near the end of the week Shay spent part of a day there, and Ada and Avery came over for a movie. Jurassic Park! That was the first time my kids had seen it! Another quick trip to play at Shay and Wyatt's house, and that was it! Cousin time done for this time around. So sad!
We had such a great time with our Daugs family. Wish we could have seen more of them, for a longer period of time. But we'll take what we can get. Time for everyone to get up to Washington to see us!!
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