Fred Elfie the Elf

An Elf appeared at our house on December 1st along with this note... 

We named him Fred and he came and visited with us each day. At night he reported back to Santa. The kids had so much fun trying to find him each morning. Above are just some samples of where we found him. 

Hopefully he come back and join us again next year. 

Gender Reveal

We decided to do a gender reveal for this baby since this is most likely our last. And I found this really cute idea online. John and I found out at the Ultra sound so I bought some silly strip and wrapped the cans in black paper and then we invited our family over to reveal the gender. It was SOOOOOO MUCH FUN!!!!!

What will it be???? 

It's a GIRL!!!!

We also served cupcakes and ice cream. Our cupcakes were filled with PINK filling.

Christmas

We spent Christmas Eve here at our house with the Garthe Family. Grandma started a new tradition of reading the kids a Christmas story. They all LOVED it!!!

We spent Christmas morning at home. It was very mellow and perfect!!!

 

 

 

John's Mom made Memory books of his dad. It was a nice surprise filled with lots of great things about Papa Garthe. Somethings we knew and somethings we did not.       

John surprised me with an L.A. Temple photo

(This was my clue, I had to unscramble the letters)

And I surprised him with a trip to Houston for his brother's surprise 40th Birthday party.

He was pretty excited!!!

Later that day we went to my parents house for some more Christmas fun! And we were once again spoiled!