More Christmas memories and some 2015 birthdays!!

 Emily and Brandon's matching sox

 The holidays would not be the holidays without mexican food at Los Arcos. 

 Kids went to Dart Warz.  For some reason I can't find any other photos from that afternoon!?

It is Sam's 14th birthday celebration!   We had dinner at The Outback I think partially because Joe is in Australia!  

 Then we went to Night at the Museum II at the amazing reclining chair theatre which is Southglenn!

 Sam getting her 1st semester "honor roll" award with the other kids. 

 Dad and I having a birthday dinner date for his 46th!  Shanahan's.  ABSOLUTELY DEVINE and absolutely expensive.  Worth every penny. 

A different Christmas morning...

This year a few things were missing from our Christmas morning, Joe and our home.  Those are some BIG things missing!   But we made do with what we had and counted our blessings.  

 Emily and her winter coat (to get ready for the freezing temperatures in Rexburg, ID.)

 More stuff to keep Emily warm in Rexburg.  

 Sam has wanted a fish but figured we will start with fake ones first and see how she does.

 Brad and his display of gifts. 

Made trip to visit Papa's grave at Christmas time.  

 

Christmas Eve and Elder Acker Skype time

Our evening revolved around getting through to Joe.  We had some technical problems that turned out to be on his end.  We couldn't hear each other for the first 15 minutes!  Finally we figured it out and had a wonderful, wonderful chat with him.

Once we were done, Brad took him downstairs and passed him around to the family.  It was really sweet. 

His companion jumped in for a few seconds!

Christmas with the Wilsons/Haydens

Our Annual Holiday Cookie Baking Party

 This year we were at Nanny's so it was a little different but still a lot of fun!  We had the Aaron Acker family and The Singer family.