Snow Day!  

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Pretty much since we moved home, Henlie has wanted to build a snowman. Every time it would snow, she would ask if there was enough snow to build a snowman. Finally, we got a storm that left enough snow to actually play in, so we had a snow day on December 15th :)

First we have to bundle everybody up and test Henlie's old toboggan to see if Andrew can handle it since he doesn't actually sit on his own yet :)



We started with some light Andrew sledding, then we tried to make a snowman, but the snow was too powdery. We managed a tiny ... mound? haha It was good enough for Henlie, though. Then we wandered around our buidling and the next playing make-believe things. We went to Bear Island and visited the bears. We also had to stay away from the germs (read: bushes; Yeah, I don't know either. Kids. :))

Andrew checking out the snow.

Henlie showing off our "snowman."

This little story amuses me. I let Henlie pull Andrew for a minute. (She did really well!)
Andrew's all content, but then she turns and drops the rope to cheese for the camera, and he starts wailing.

I would have taught Henlie about snow angels, but she didn't have any snow pants. Fortunately, she had a lot of fun wandering around playing pretend in the snow. Henlie also tried to make snowballs. Fortunately, being so powdery, the snow just fluffed in my general direction when she tried to throw it ;)

Snow Selfies

Finally wearing his little booties we got him in Peru!

Henlie trying to make a snowball from the snow on the bush.

Andrew standing next to our snowman.

After some "skating" and icicle observing, I managed to get Henlie back upstairs where we warmed up with some hot cocoa. I don't really love the snow, and bundling everyone up is kind of a pain, but I love it when my kids are so happy. (Okay, kid. Andrew didn't love it or hate it, but he did get over being in the sled, so I had to pull him out and pull the sled behind me still :)) Next, Momma needs some snow pants!

Henlie "skating" on the sidewalk.

Icicle Bush 1

Icicle Bush 2

Icicle Bush 3

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Little Tidbits - Part 33  

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12 02 15 - Henlie decided we all needed one of Dad's hats.
12 03 15 - Henlie now can eat real cereal, besides Chocapic (in fairness, she got over that ages before we moved from Peru). She loves Lucky Charms and calls it "Colors."
12 04 15 - Andrew got to start eating food for real. He's a huge fan, and likes to play with the spoon after :)
12 05 15 - Playing with Dad on his phone :)
12 06 15 - Henlie helping Daddy shine his shoes :)
12 06 15 - My birthday at Larry and Carrie's house :) 
12 06 15 - Andrew nomming on some play bread at Grandma's.
12 08 15 - Grandpa and Grandma Erdmann stopped by for a visit :)
12 08 15 - Andrew and Henlie helped me walk Mocha. It was a nice day, and Henlie always wants to go to the park, so we hung out for a bit while Sis played.
12 11 15 - Andrew hanging out on the giant caterpillar in Henlie's room.
12 12 15 - I told Henlie to find some clothes......this is what she found.
12 13 15 - Laundry basket baby
12 14 15 - I gave Andrew another faux-hawk :)
12 14 15 - Andrew loves Munchkin. Also, he loves to see himself in the camera or a mirror :)
And he loves to stick out his tongue :)
12 14 15 - Henlie and Daddy dancing to Pandora.
12 15 15 - 9 months old!

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Sugar Cookies  

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In my Christmas decor, I had some cookie cutters/stamps. Henlie found them and thought we should make cookies, so we did on Sunday, December 13th. Church was a 1pm, so we made them before church. We used Pillsbury dough...and I had to add SO much flour in order to actually roll it out and cut it. Also, because the stamp cutters were so shallow, they got a little overbaked, but they were still yummy. Besides, the important part was making the cookies and decorating them with Henlie, which we totally did :)

Cooling Cookies

Henlie with our frosting.

Adding sprinkles.

Fun story about the bottom middle picture and the bottom right cookie....Henlie decided to try to do the sprinkles herself. And they didn't have a shaker. And she's three.... Most of the rest of the cookies got decorated with rainbows after that.

Trying the fruits of our labors.

When we got home from church, we discovered we'd lost a plate to (most likely) the dog. Stinker. The rest we took to Grandma's house to share. They went pretty quickly after that :)
Bonus - we also had popcorn at Grandma's house :)

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Christiansen and Ward Christmas Parties  

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Saturday, December 12th, we had the Christiansen Christmas party. The tradition goes food and then presents. This year was no different :) That being the case, I'll let the pictures do the talking :)

Andrew wasn't too happy about going to Aunt Kayla.
Michelle and Braden
McKade laying behind the tree reading a book.
Great-Aunt Janelle and Andrew.

Food!
Aunt Camile and Andrew
Present time!
Henlie getting a hug from Great-Grandpa Chris.

Ryan and Andrew
Emily and Andrew
Me and Kasen

 We were able to stay through presents (the grands and great-grands got BYU shirts. Henlie liked her "present shirt." Luckily, it has Baby Cosmo on it, or we'd have to return it ;) The adults got backpacks with 72 hour kits in them.) However, we had to rush home to swap out our jello salads (lucky for us the assignments were the same!) and head to the ward Christmas party. We did pretty well with being on time :)
Henlie and Auriel

Andrew liked the spoon.

 We sat next to the Flores family to feel "at home." I still don't speak Spanish, but at least I can still pick up on some of what is being said haha. Henlie had SO much fun running around and being a crazy with her friend Auriel before we got started. We had dinner and then we had a program. Then we packed up, got our salad, which came home full with the leftovers of another person's jello too...., went home, and put the kids to bed. A very successful day thanks to happy scheduling on the party planning end. 
Primary nativity
My friend, Deanna, singing a solo.
Henlie and Mommy funny faces :)

Deanna singing
Daddy and Andrew (playing with the spoon, of course)
Walkyria holding Andrew and her daughter, Sadie

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ZooLights 2015  

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On December 11th, we met up with Jason and Camile to go to ZooLights! at Hogle Zoo. We were running behind our planned schedule, so they'd done probably at least half the zoo before we got there, but they went back through everything to hang with us. Henlie was super excited to see her best friend Charlie. She misses Charlie since they've moved to Layton.  It was cold and wet, and due to the cold, wet, dark, late nature of the outing, we didn't see many actual animals. If we did, they were sleeping haha. But we had a fun time wandering through, looking at the lights.

 Snow leopards...asleep.

 Henlie and Charlie in front of the Tiger exhibit.

 Henlie heading toward the tunnel.

 Jason with Charlie, Henlie, and Danica on the polar bear statues.

 Seahorse lights.

 Henlie checking out some lights.

 Charlie and Henlie on a rhinoceros statue. 

Adding in Camile and Danica :)

 We got back around to the front of the zoo and said goodbye to Jason and Camile. We opted to eat dinner in the Beastro. Henlie was super tired, but we had a pretty fun outing enjoyed warming up inside before heading back home.
 She was so sleepy.
Also, that orange was awful. Super hard to peel and very slippery.

Tired Henlie and Daddy at the ZooLights! sign outside the zoo. 

Family shot! (Andrew was in his stroller, hence he's not in any of our photos.)

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