Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Ward Christmas Party and decorating a gingerbread village!

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Heading out the door to go to the ward Christmas party!

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Dayna and I! 

 

Gingerbread Village!

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Girl’s Night!

My adorable friend who I love to pieces, hosted a wonderful Girl’s Night at her home!

Dayna is amazing; and the most talented lady!

Dayna was hiding from the camera…..he he he I was too! 

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She prepared the most delicious food!

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Oh and the Grinch punch was so yummy!

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This is Emily and Lisa!  Emily is my Second Counselor and Lisa is my First Counselor in the Primary Presidency!  I love these ladies!

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This is the fun game Dayna made for us to play!  We had a great time getting to know one another better.

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Dayna taught us to make these adorable word blocks.  Great food, girl talk and making crafts, does it get any better?  Smile  We had the best time!

Thank you, thank you Dayna! 

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This is the set I made!

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We finished the evening wrapping the teacher gifts for all the teachers and those that we serve with in Primary!   Just call us Christmas elves! 

Steven’s Birthday!

 

We went to Steven’s favorite restaurant for dinner.

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While there he opened his birthday card from Dad! (he is on the phone with dad while he opened his card)

   Dad surprised him with a $700 check so Steven could buy a new lap top for school!  He was so excited!

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Robert and I got him a new mouse! 

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Thirsty boy

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Chocolate brownie Sunday!  Especially for the birthday boy!

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Birthday cake and present time

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Happy Birthday Steven! 

Thanksgiving at Mom’s house!

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I love setting and decorating a table during the holidays! 

Mom let me set the table with her antique china! 

I also used her vintage cooper Jell-O molds as tea candle holders! 

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Robert, fixing mom’s new popcorn maker so we could have fresh popcorn!!! 

Steven is the man when it comes to cooking and making his famous dinner rolls!  Here is the fun process from start to finish! 

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Step one….. kneed the dough

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Step two….Cut and let the rolls rise!

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Ready to eat…yummy!

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I was in charge of salads.  Layered green salad, divine cream cheese raspberry salad and frog eye salad!

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the turkey, stuffing and sour kruat!

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Oh dinner was sooooooo good!

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Steven carving the turkey!

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Time to eat!

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Festival at the Riverwoods!

I have neglected my blog for too many months now!  LOL  I started feeling guilty sense this is the one method I use to journal family events. 

So please sit back and catch up with the Boulter family’s comings and goings! 

 

I have to give it to the Ronie family that completely remodeled the Riverwoods shopping area.  They also are fantastic at organizing fun family events that are free.

  We attended the Riverwoods lighting ceremony!  There were so many gorgeous Christmas lights!  We listened to live music, had cookies and hot chocolate, watched a man carve ice sculptures and saw Santa go by in a horse carriage! 

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it was a fun evening spending time together as a family and enjoying the delights of the Christmas season!