Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning 2016

Christmas Eve was really productive at our home this year.

We meant to have a big dinner and read the nativity and watch a fun Christmas show together as a family,

but the day really got away from us. 

Sweet Girl and my Sweet Husband played in the snow for a while. 

Sweet Girl loved to eat the snow!

 Sweet Girl insisted on an entire family, 

you have to look closely but there is a mom, a dad, and a baby.

My Sweet Husband said she wanted more people, but he was getting tired.. lol!

 I went outside with them for a little bit, but since I don't have snow clothes that fit at the moment I opted to go in and make hot chocolate for all of us.

They still let me be part of the snowball fight.. lol, look above my Sweet Husband's head and you'll see the snowball they threw at the window at me. Plus the one that already left its mark on the window.

After playing in the snow we worked on texturing the walls, 

if I remember correctly, my Sweet Husband also worked on the counter tops.

And I think he worked on a few other things.

So we had a very special dinner of McDonalds and watched If You Give a Mouse a Christmas Cookie while we ate. Then we read the nativity in our New Testament Illustrated Reader.

And quickly put Sweet Girl to bed because it was getting pretty late.

Even though it wasn't exactly how we planned, it was a wonderful day together as a family!

Santa came during the night and we woke up early Christmas morning 

and opened presents before church.

 Sweet Girl was so excited about everything, it was so fun!

 We had plenty of time, so if she wanted to play with her toys in between opening more presents we let her.

 

 Then we tried to take a family picture with the Christmas tree

and remembered once again we forgot to take it before we opened presents.. lol oops.

Also, sometimes your belly is so big that's all that makes it into the picture.

 Take 2

It was a wonderful Christmas morning with our little family!

Survival

As I was thinking about goals for 2017, I started thinking about the goals that I set for 2016... and I honestly couldn't remember exactly which goals I set... which made me realize that I probably didn't do very well with them. But as I was rereading my post about my 2016 goals, I realized I did pretty well in some of them and ebbed and flowed in others.

I trained for and ran a half marathon! It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed running with my Sweet Husband and Sweet Girl! I hope that sometime during the year I get to start running again, but I'll get to that in a minute.

My Sweet Husband and I weren't super consistent with dates, as in we didn't have a certain day every month or week that was date night, but we did pretty well. And I think we were able to spend a lot of time together this year, so I think we can count that as successful too!

I definitely ebbed and flowed with the putting the phone down goal. For a while I was really good at only looking at my phone when Sweet Girl was sleeping, but then she started taking fewer naps and I started to get lazy with that.

Blogging... I struggled but I did catch up there at the end. I have a few house project posts to write but other than that I hit the main things from the year.

Reading the Bible, I started off really strong and then lost where I was and forgot what was going on... and yeah.. it didn't quite happen.

Thinking and speaking well of others will always be a work in progress I think.

And we are getting super close to having house projects finished!

My word for this year... survival. Lol, my Sweet Husband and I were talking about goals for 2017 and we both said that was our main goal for the year... lol! But I do have other things I'd like to do this year as well.

1. Our stake is challenging us to read the Book of Mormon this year, so I want to do that.
2. I want to work on putting my phone down more again.
3. Get Sweet Girl potty trained.
4. Have healthy baby boys.
5. Have a positive attitude.

I hope you all have a wonderful 2017!