Welp…I got the flu for Christmas. Me and Blake both. And Nat and Simon. Then, we passed it on to Grandma and Josh. So, that’s super exciting. We had to delay our Christmas Eve dinner and jammies so we wouldn’t infect the rest of the family. Everyone was so sad. Josh said, “You mean I…
The Banks Christmas party was a lot of fun with never have I ever games, meat pies, and an epic ping pong battle. Carson won the grand prize of $50! Christmas Eve started off with the annual skiing trip, at Brighton this year. It was a lot of fun and we had a good time…
It was just us this Christmas. But thanks to the magic of Zoom, we still had fun connecting with our family. The day started with opening cousin presents. It was late morning for us, and almost bedtime for the Schofields! I’m glad we did it this way–it was fun to see all the kids and…
Rusty here. Christmas Eve skiing went so smoothly this year! The secret is preparing ahead. I had gotten out the ski stuff a few days prior and made sure everything fit. Tara made sure everyone had coats and gloves. We got up and were off to A-basin. It was an easy drive with 0 traffic.…
It started out as a rough day. We decided to expand our horizons this year in part due to Brighton’s Kids Ski Free policy. It took FOREVER to get up the canyon and parking was a mess. We finally got to the rental center, only to be greeted with a 1.5 hour line WOAH. Here’s…
Many nights of Dec Josh goes to bed licking his chops, dreaming of Christmas Eve dinner. Ribs and Cheesy Potatoes. His FAVORITE! And it lived up to every expectation. So yummy. My mom even changed up her recipe a little to make it Gluten Free for me. She also went to Cravings and bought me…
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…
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