Christmas was different again this year with two college kids coming home. One for three weeks and one for one week. We tried to have something fun to do every day of the week of Christmas with everyone here. We ate well and played games, saw Santa and went to the Botanical Gardens. We did some services and had some good times together. Pictures show all the joy. There are some hard things not shown, but we are so very blessed with health and strength and courage and love. I love my little family. I love having a front row seat in each of their lives. I love supporting and listening, encouraging and annoying them! We are all learning and growing and working on being our best selves. Go Ravy's!
Welp, we never said we were good at making ginger bread houses, but there is laughter always when doing them!
We delivered poinsettia's to two nursing homes on two Sundays of the month. It was fun to go with friends and share some Christmas spirit with those who are a little more lonely.
Christmas Sunday obligatory photos!
Austin and Mel had a Christmas party at their house. I love my coworkers and what we do and how we support each other It's pretty amazing.
Drink up Kelsey!
Kristine and Lauryn
Kelsey, Natalie and Mike
Austin T and Armando
Erik, Travis and I
For the love of puppies!
Merry Christmas guys!
Pre Christmas/Natalie's bday celebration dinner and movie
Kedzie and the Christmas cow. Chicken for all!
The grinch? lol
This year instead of pjs, we drew names and purchased "bad" t-shirts for each other. Then we went to dinner at Costa Vida and went to see Santa! We laughed a lot.
Ethan made it to Loveland a couple times while he was home and took the boys and Alex with him
Family gifts!
Forced family fun was a Christmas Eve of playing games and winning gift cards and scratch off tickets. Everyone complied with mostly smiles on their faces!
Merry Christmas Eve!
Merry Christmas!
Travis tried to steal Ethan's jersey right away
What I wanted to make
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What I did make!
We returned the molds! lol
We had some more fun playing games after opening presents and then we all built legos for a few hours, ate lots of food and spent the day together. It was hot and sunny and a pretty great day.
A favorite gift from Travis
Cassidy and Emily at work. Wurd to yo mutha
I did take a nap sometime that week.
Kedzie let me get a tree pic
Delicious meal for the new year and the dogs wanting their fair share of course.
Laurie fed the Boyz. Everyone was home for a few days together.
Ethan got his third tattoo.
The only way I know how to celebrate my mom 14 years later. She sure is missed.
Ummmm Alex?
Happy New Year from our family to yours!
I don't know what to say about 2025. It was good and hard and phew it's done and yikes we are onto a new year. All the feels and anxieties and emotions. I miss my kids at the ages of 4,4,6&8! I'll be honest there. They are just growing up so fast. Kedzie will be teaching in 1.5 years. Triston and Alex will be high school grads in 1.5 years and Ethan is nailing college. They are such good kids, not without their personal challenges, but they are fighters and they just keep plugging along the best way they know how. I'm proud of them and grateful for them and grateful to be apart of their lives.
Nuf Said had a great year with Travis at the helm. We are so blessed with great employees and customers to keep our little company going every day. Travis is busy and happy and loves that things are going so well.
I love my job and my co workers. Yes it's hard and gets frustrating working with people and a broken health care system, but we are doing the best we can to help people who are needing assistance after the hospital. I love that I have a purpose in helping others every single day.
Travis is still the seminary coordinator for the stake as well as an Elders Quorum teacher He's such a great teacher and an example to so many around him. I'm the new young women president for our new ward after boundary changes. I love this calling and love serving with the youth. We are grateful for our Savior Jesus Christ and for the opportunity to learn and grow in the gospel and on this Earth. We love Jesus and we love God. We strive to be like Jesus every day.
We had some fun trips this year, not enough obviously, we just continue to learn and grow daily and do the best we can. Grateful for 2025 and optimistic for 2026.
