The Break

I can’t believe that Christmas break is already over.   I cannot describe how great it was to get 2 and 1/2 weeks of Casey all to myself.  No homework, no work, nothing! We had a great time doing whatever we wanted, and spending a lot of time of both of our families. 

This year was the first year in 3 years that we didn’t fly somewhere during the break.  It was AWESOME!  I loved not having to stress about how Carly was going to sleep or travel. 

Here’s a short photo recap of our break.

I got to meet my nephew Bentley for the first time.  He is such a cutie.  I am officially baby hungry.

We spent Christmas Eve with my family this year.  All the kids dressed up and acted out the Nativity.  Carly was the Innkeeper.  She even got her lines down and said them at the right time, “No room!”

Little Thomas was dressed up as a Wise Man. 

 

On Christmas morning Carly got to open presents from both Grandmas and Grandpas and she was very surprised to see everything that Santa brought her. Carly even gave us a present this year, she slept in until 8:30 for two weeks straight!

 

A few days after Christmas a blizzard hit Provo.  Casey shoveled snow for 3 hours straight. Carly had fun trying out her new snow pants that Santa brought her.

AND we got a Hatch family picture!

 

I hope everyone had a great Christmas! Here is our Christmas Card from this year.  I wanted to send it to everyone but we ran out of copies.

THE first Santa experience

Santa came to our ward party last Saturday.  Carly was so excited to see him.  She even sat on his lap and told him that she wanted a puppy for Christmas! 

Waiting in the line to see Santa…

 

BYU football

I was looking through the pictures on my phone and found these pictures from one of the BYU games that we went to.  We were lucky that Casey’s parents let us go with them to the home games.  Carly absolutely loved the games.  She cheered, clapped, and sang the BYU fight song.

   

 

Happy Thanksgiving…a bit late.

We had a very fun Thanksgiving.  I made the turkey for Casey’s family’s party.  We had a few “problems” while trying to transport the turkey from Provo to Centerville – Ray (our old-time friend) ended up with a lap full of raw turkey juice, and then the spigot on the cooler that was holding the turkey froze open (it doesn’t sound possible, but it did happen).  Nevertheless, we did get the turkey to Centerville.

Kreg got to carve the turkey this year.  Can’t you tell by the look on his face how confident he was? 

All the nieces loved playing with Ray.

  

Carly’s 2-year pictures

 

BYU fight song

Carly is obsessed with the BYU Cougars.  Whenever she sees a Y anywhere she wants to start singing the BYU fight song.

Things I love Fridays - “Homemade” popcorn

 

I love microwave popcorn.  I don’t love the butter lovers way greasy types but I do love the lightly salted and buttered ones.  In the past I would buy the light butter popcorn because it’s not  drenched in fake butter.  BUT a few months ago I was picking up some popcorn at the grocery store and I saw that a few brands had new homemade flavors.  I was curious what this homemade flavor would taste like so I bought some.  I tried it and now am a huge fan.  The homemade flavor actually has real, tasty butter in it.  It’s definitely not as buttery and fattening as the butter lovers/movie theater kinds but it has more butter than the light kinds, so it’s perfect in my opinion.  It’s really good and what’s even better is that I don’t feel like a chunk o’ lard after I eat it!