Friday, January 31, 2014

November through January 2013: A mixed bag of family and friends

A winter wonderland fell softly and quietly in our backyard in November. It was so pretty! It actually snowed several times this fall and winter--a wonderful surprise and delight to us all.

We took our rabbit, Bunny (no photos here), into the lower shed and fixed up a cozy condo for her before it got too cold this winter. As much as Mike dislikes having a pet, he's been wonderfully good to our adopted Bunny. 

Snow on our backyard lawn one November morning
Dear friends, Rob and Marie Sorensen out to dinner at Cheddars with me and Mike
      
                     January 4th: Jess and Seb enjoy our new 3-D TV downstairs

  
                  
    The accent wall that Sam and Kiley created and decorated with family pictures

                  
                                           Proud Papa Sam with beautiful son, Joseph ("Joey")

                   
                    January 16th: The Dunlap trio hang out at Grandma's house for some playtime fun

                   
                           Hudson was excited to show Mama the train tracks he'd set up by himself

                   
                                             Our beautiful Jessica and her handsome little boys

                   
                                                         Busy baby Beau entertaining himself

                               
                                           Standing up to furniture and not quite walking yet

                  
                                        Hudson's play table--away from baby brother's hands!

                  
                                      The train station--complete with wood block structures
                                                          that he and Mama built together
                              
                  
                                   Hudson did not want to leave their colorful creation behind
                  
                   January 17th: We went to lunch at Firehouse Subs with the Dunlap's one Saturday. What a darling little face!

                 
                                                                 Junior Firefighter Beau

                  
                                          Oh no, Beau hit his chin on the edge of the table ;-(
       
                  
                  
                                               Hudson hamming it up for Grandpa's camera

                  
                                        Wow--look at the pile of meat in those sandwiches!
                                    Cute shot of Hudson and Grandpa in their firefighter hats

                  
                       January 25th: We went out for dinner at Pacific Paradise for sushi with some
                      Cherry Hills Ward friends to celebrate Maggie Naegle's belated 50th birthday

                  
                                     We also wished Bishop Jake Devenport a happy birthday!

                  
              Wish we had taken pictures of the rest of the party! There were four couples altogether: 
                                  the Naegle's, the DeGolyer's, the Devenport's,  and the Hobbs'

                  
                                                          Blowing out the birthday candles 

                  
                      After dinner, we all went to the Naegle's home to play games and to eat dessert
                      It was one of the BEST evenings Mike and  I have had with a group of friends!

1 comment:

Jessica Dunlap said...

What a fun posting! I LOVED all of those pictures. Thanks for taking care of Hudson - he really had a wonderful time with you guys (as always!)

I can't wait to meet Elise. She is so dang cute!