Christmas Wish

My wish is that everyone is able to sit back and truly enjoy Christmas Day. Enjoy being with your loved ones, and remember why we celebrate Christmas. Merry Christmas.

We had a surprise guest show up at the Collins Christmas party. Emilee was so excited to see Santa.

Temple Square

We had so much fun walking around and looking at the lights this year, even though it was only 9 degrees the night we went.

Festival of Trees

Every year we try to go as a family to the Festival of Trees, an event to help Primary Children's Hospital. We love to walk around and look at all of the amazing trees, wreaths, and gingerbread houses that people donate. Emilee got a little tired towards the middle, so we sat down and ate a treat. We bought some of the scones they sell there. The scone helped Emilee make it through the rest of the trees. She really loved the ones with all of the babies.

Elves Scavenger Hunt

We decided to go to Gardner Village and look at the elves this year. Before we went I found that they were having a scavenger hunt for the little kids. I printed off a list of the elves we needed to find, and off we went. It was so much fun to look for the elves while we were shopping, Emilee really enjoyed seeing Santa's Elves. Once we found them all, we took the list to the Candy store. Emilee was able to choose a candy stick, and of course she went for peppermint, it was pink.

Halloween Weekend

Halloween was fun this year, Emilee started to understand what was going on. On Friday night we carved pumpkins. I was the lucky one that helped Emilee. I cleaned out her pumpkin, and I carved the face. The things we do for our kids, I hate cleaning pumpkins, yet I did it for Emilee. I haven't cleaned a pumpkin in about 15 years. Unfortunately Emilee wasn't feeling well, so we decided to start early on Halloween. We went to Grandma and Grandpa Yorgasons house first, and trick or treated with Maylee and Ryan. While we were there we got to see Sam, but we didn't want to hold him, we didn't want to run the risk of getting him sick. Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa Collins house. We arrived at the same time the pizza arrived, so we all ate pizza before we went out trick or treating. Then we took Emilee, Matthew, and Lily trick or treating. Emilee started to wear down and we had to carry her most of the way. Matthew enjoyed it so much, he was running as fast as he could to the doors. After trick or treating we came home and watched a movie. As we watched the movie we ate all the yummy treats that everyone brought. We had such a fun weekend.