I didn't have Rock's video of the bonfire being lit with tannerite, so here you go:
He spent New Year's Day at Echo and then at Mission Ridge. He ended up stuck on the lift for over three hours, until after midnight, because it malfunctioned. He finally decided to rest on Friday but only because we made him.
He wasn't the only one.
Saturday was a hockey day. They had their first game at 11:30, and then we had to wait around until 7:15 for the second game.
They had quite the cheering section with Nama and Hampa, Rissa's crew, and Rock's flight instructor.
Sofia loved the cheering.
Rock and Hampa want to buy a plane, and there was a plane for sale at the airport. We checked it out, but the financing on a plane with a timed-out engine and a 16-year-old pilot is pretty tough to get.
I don't know why, but we decided to measure the family's guns.
We love this YouTube channel called "Thumb Follow Me" that's a cartoon with thumbprint characters. It is meant for younger kids, but we still made our kids make Thumb Art to email in.
Even Schnoogies and I got in on the arting.
I think the kids thought we were bluffing, but we really did send in their artwork.
DeA made it clear that I had better not be bluffing about sending hers in.
We have very effective scripture study here, especially with all gas, no brake Rock.
DeAndra decided to give me something really wonderful to unwrap this Christmas!
She's more beautiful today than when she wore this dress the first time.
DeA and I decided to head down to the temple on Boxing Day. It was a beautiful drive down, but mostly because DeA was with me.
She was especially stunning in front of the pretty sunset.
Thanks to life and the kids, we hadn't been to a session in too long and it was great to be there with her.
The kids are really taking advantage of their vacation time.
DeA's favorite Christmas tradition is the "clearing of the junk".
As cozy as a beautiful bug in a rug.
Did you know that a stick of butter is a 1/4 pound and not a 1/4 cup? I used to but somewhere along the time that knowledge escaped my brain. Thankfully DeA was around to help quadruple the no-bake batch.
Ryker was pretty wild this New Year's Eve.
DeA will say that she stayed up until two, but she took the hours of 9, 10, and 11 off.
Rock had a bonfire with his peeps at the loading area in the snow, it looked like they had fun.
Christmas Eve has to include homemade pizzas and Ryker makes some very good ones.
Rissa hit the bottle pretty hard.
Rock spent all night engraving RAE onto every piece of the toolset that he got Grandpa
Mrs. Claus was busy wrapping and preparing and gathering Christmas.
The kids waited until 6:30 to start the fun. Gpa and Gma stayed until Rissa texted to say that the more fun kids were ready to open their presents.
It was a fun morning and I was thankful that the kids were thankful.
Teenagers
Ryker is evolving into the Nutty Professor.
Leo is running out of places to sleep in his room.
Chayo surprised us with tamales! It was a Christmas miracle!
They were still pretty hot.
Leo Boy said he wanted "help" assembling his Legos, but what he really wanted was someone to sit by him while he did it and to tell him how great he was a Legos.
Rock received a new regulation size goal but ran out of steam during the assembly process when he had to string the net. Ryker helped out while Rock was sleeping. It was a selfless act of love by a brother that only wanted to be the first one to use the regulation size goal.
Beautiful DeA in her Christmas jammies
It did not take long for her to start pulling out the junk and burning it down.
It almost could be a sick album cover or something.
DeA was excited to gift the butt calendar to her nephews. It was a big hit.
The Christmas cheer was too much for some of the kids.
