The Moss Family: December 2015

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Thanksgiving

We did Thanksgiving with my family this year since we are going to spend Christmas up in McCall with Craig's family. Everyone in my family was there except Tiffy's family went to California. All of my Dad's brothers were in town so we decided to just do a huge Thanksgiving dinner all together. I think there ended up being 43 people, including all of the kids. We had to do it at a church building but that allowed the kids to run around, which was nice. Brooklyn loved having Sunni's family in town, she is absolutely obsessed with Kobi and Kira. Everyone was assigned a few food items to bring and everything turned out great. We had plenty of leftovers to split between all of the families. it was so good to see so much of my extended family. I really love Thanksgiving and thinking about all the many things that we are blessed with. I need to be better about showing my gratitude year round, because we have been truly blessed as a family by our Heavenly Father.

Do you want to build a snowman?

We had the opportunity to go up to McCall two weekends in November and both weekends there was quite a bit of snow. The first weekend we went up my parents were able to come up with us. The first thing Brooklyn wanted to do was build a snowman, of course. Luckily the snow in the backyard was great packing snow and grandma was willing to help her out. We also drove up to Brundage, the ski resort, and played around in the snow up there. Brooklyn was the only one with proper snow gear so the rest of us were a little chilly, but it was worth it to see how happy she was making snow angels and throwing snowballs. It was really nice to be able to spend the weekend with my parents and Brooklyn loved the one-on-one time she was able to have with Grandma and Grandpa and it was nice to see my parents actually relax.

We were also able to get up to the cabin the weekend before Thanksgiving and Diane was able to come with us. We had a lot of fun sledding. Brooklyn was a little nervous at first and wanted to go with Craig but after a few times she then wanted to go all by herself. One of us had to be at the bottom of the hill though so that she didn't end up in the lake. She kept wanting all of us to take turns sledding and even Nana took a turn. Once was enough for her though because she almost had to bail out when she was heading straight for the garbage cans. We went to Pancake House for breakfast one morning and while we were in there it snowed about 4 inches and it was the biggest snowflakes I have ever seen. Brooklyn and Craig of course needed to throw a few snowballs on our way to the car. One evening we went out to eat at a place called Lardo's. Craig's family used to eat there a lot when he was little, but they hadn't been back for a while so we decided to check it out. It was very good, but Brooklyn was not a fan of the green jello that came with the kids meal. She made the funniest face I have ever seen, I wish I had gotten a picture of it. It was at that moment that I realized my child had never had JELLO before, how awful is that? Now whenever we go out to eat she asks if we are going to Lardo's, I think she just likes saying the name. Brooklyn and Craig had a lot of fun making snowmen and Craig even made her a snow fort. Craig and I have decided that we really need to invest in some snow boots. We had a lot of fires and drank a lot of hot chocolate. It was a super fun and relaxing weekend. Can't wait until we get to go back up for Christmas!

Monday, December 7, 2015

Fall Fun

This fall we were lucky enough to have some really great weather. It was warm enough for us to spend a lot of time out doors, which was good for us because we are used to Memphis and being able to go to the park and zoo all winter long. We spent a lot of time at parks this fall and most of the time we would take a picnic lunch. We also spent quite a few Saturdays at the Eagle Farmer's Market with Paige and the kids when Craig and Mark had to work, they always had some fun kids activities. We were able to get to the zoo once before it cooled down too much. I have already been having a hard time staying inside with Brooklyn the last month and we still have a lot of winter left. Hopefully we can continue to find fun things to do inside. Luckily we have cousins that are close that we love to have play dates with.