Happy Birthday Chippy!
Chippy has been in our family for one year! We celebrated with a banana cake covered in sunflower seeds 🙂 She loved it!
Family | Traditions | Travel
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve was on Sunday so we all got up and went to church. The music was beautiful, but the talks were strange. One woman talked about the iron curtain and the other man just told his life story. It was an interesting life story, but didn’t have too much to do with Christmas or…
Holiday | Traditions | Travel
Pre and Post Christmas fun
Our Utah trip was a whirlwind of family, food, fun and head colds 🙂 Here are some of the highlights: Halle and White reunited! Swimming with cousins at the Lehi Pool Throwing Kristin a surprise bridal shower at Harvest House at TG Point Going to Candlelight Christmas at This is the Place Heritage Park. This…
Cornell Family Pictures
We got my mom and dad new family pictures for Christmas. And it was quite the adventure with all our little ones. (I’m talking to you, Simon. And BLAKE. 🙂 I am actually quite amazed at how well they turned out. I’ve got to hand it to the photographer–she worked magic! She had this feather…
Advent 2017
It was a fun, and busy season leading up to Christmas. We are so grateful for all the amazing opportunities we get to have, and the beautiful memories we create together. Here are some of our favorites: Our Tsum Tsum Advent Calendar. They’d race down each day to open up their cute little figurine. We…
Halle and Tara do Christmas in NYC
Halle could not think of a single thing she wanted for Christmas this year. So….I schemed a trip to NYC so we could do all the fun Christmas things together. Halle was totally on board. She paid her plane ticket (we scored $180 round trip out of JFK), and I paid for the rest for…
Parade of Lights 2017
The warm weather keeps on coming! We didn’t even need our coats this year. So weird. And so great. We got to the hotel early so we could have lots of fun before the parade. First up? Snacks and soda from the Club, of course! Then on to the swimming pool. Everyone had a blast. …