Guess who went on a date?! If you guessed me you are right! It was so much fun to go out to eat and socialize (thanks to our neighbor Eula who gave us a gift card).
Here I am getting ready
Hallie loves to help with EVERYTHING! I love her chesser in the top picture.
The happy couple!
P.S. I just wanted to brag that I got a love letter for Christmas from the handsome man pictured above! He’s so WONDERFUL!
The week before Christmas we got a HUGE storm. It snowed and snowed and snowed. In the three total years I have lived in DC we have never got this much! The area seriously does not know how to react to this much snow. Everything shut down including church. I LOVED it!!
Ben helping a neighbor get his car in his spot. Don’t ask why he pulled it out of his spot just to put it back in! NO one knows how to drive in the snow out here. Ben was getting so frustrated with this guy who just kept spinning his wheels.
We played outside for a while but Hallie only has the cotton gloves that don’t work well in the snow. She played until her hands hurt then I took her inside. As you can tell she wanted desperately to be back outside.
Christmas morning breakfast! I asked Hallie to smile and this is what I got. Silly girl!
I didn’t have any presents under the tree until Christmas morning. (I knew Hallie would try and open them.) She was really excited!
Opening her first present. I think the wrapping paper was the highlight of her day. 🙂
And another one. At first she would tear off little pieces at a time. It only took a few presents before she got faster and much more efficient.
One of her presents was a softball glove. We had to teach her how to use it because first thing she did with it was put it on her head and call it a hat. haha
We were able to skype with both of our families on Christmas. Hallie decided, without any encouragement, to give kisses. It was hilarious!!!
At our ward Christmas party the primary children acted out a little nativity scene. Hallie insisted on going on the stage so I gave her an angel’s halo and up she went. Let me just tell you she stole the show! She walked along the front until she placed herself perfectly. Then she looked out across the crowd and gave them the biggest cheeser grins (the picture doesn’t capture it fully). She knew she was cute and that everyone was looking at her. lol I was drying I was laughing so hard. Don’t ask me where she gets it from!
Beautiful Hallie in her Christmas dress. Thanks Nanna Romrell!
When you are sick and don’t feel like doing much you will try anything to entertain a toddler.
For example: I made jello pudding and let Hallie play with it in the tub. She loved it and it entertained her for a good 30 min while I just sat there and watched. HAHA Well, and took tons of pictures of course.
Just getting started and a little unsure.
First taste test.
Evidence that it tasted good.
Getting a little more into it.
Really into it now. P.S. I had a little fun writing on her.
More eating was involved.
The final result=good times and fairly easy cleanup.
You can consider this an announcement!!
It snowed in Virginia!!!!! I was so excited. We pulled the blinds up in all the windows and just stared at the beautiful snow flakes. It made me feel like I was home (Utah).
We took Hallie sledding. She is so funny! At first she seemed really nervous but then she finally started to smile. Silly girl!
We had another wonderful Virginia Thanksgiving this year. We were blessed to join Ben’s second cousins the Stoker’s for their feast. Boy was it good. Carol really goes the extra mile and makes everything from scratch. I mean even the stuffing came from homemade bread. We were spoiled to say the least!!!
Here are some pictures of our meal
I’m kicking myself now because I didn’t get any pictures of us!! DUH
That same Thanksgiving weekend we went up to the Shenandoah mountains where the Stokers were camping for the weekend. We only stayed for one day but we had so much fun. I seriously LOVE camping. Hallie really enjoyed herself as well and she even did great in the car (which considering her history is a HUGE deal!). YAY, thanks for inviting us once again Randal, Carol and Rachel.
Hallie riding in the wagon on our walk.
After awhile Hallie decided she wanted to help dad pull the wagon.
So beautiful!!!