New Years Eve 2015

Sunday, January 31, 2016

We had a little fondue party on New Years Eve! Mmmm fondue is so yummy and fun...


I made a cheese fondue and served steamed potatoes, mixed veggies, chicken, and bread for dipping. We also had a salad.... But who wants salad when you can dip bread into cheese and call it dinner? :)

I made a chocolate marshmallow fondue for dessert and served it with pound cake, graham crackers, marshmallows, and strawberries for dipping...

We started a tradition that if your food falls off the stick into the pot you have to kiss the person next to you... Claire gave out LOTS of kisses...

Happy New Year! At 9 we let the girls do some party poppers and then put them to bed! 

Then we started another round of Castles of Burgundy! So fun! 

Instagram says these are my top photos from 2015! 

2015 was a really rough year for us. We are hoping and praying that 2016 is a much better year for our family! If nothing else we have another fondue party to look forward to on NYE 2016! :) 

Our Christmas Morning and Brian's Birthday - December 27th 2015

Saturday, January 30, 2016

The day after we went to Knott's Berry Farm, Brian came down with the flu. I have NEVER seen him so sick! Shortly after Claire got sick, then Kenley, and then I finally got it too. It was the worst sickness to ever hit the Ronk house! Christmas Eve I knew that we were all too sick to "do Christmas" so we decided to postpone a few days and ended up celebrating Christmas on Brian's 29th birthday. We were all still sick but felt like we couldn't postpone any longer. Especially since our poor tree was totally dead and falling apart! 

Everything all set out on our Christmas Eve... (The guitar and violin weren't presents)


Some of the stuff that the girls found under the tree...

An Herb Fairies Book Club Membership. This doesn't start until March and it is going to be a great supplement to our Homeschool! 


Playsilks that I scored at an awesome yard sale, the Waldorf Heavy babies I made, baby beds (One of them was made by my great grandpa for my mom!), baby pillows, baby mattresses, and knit blankies...

Their planners came with these totes! Made for perfect wrapping! They also received a Lego friends set and knitting dolls from us and then lots of stuff from Gramma & Grandpa and Grammy & Gramps!



Even though our Christmas was pretty rough, the only thing I really wanted was for the girls to love the baby dolls that I made for them and they do! 

Thanks for the toaster set Auntie Amy! 

We took the bungee cord off the tree for these pictures! haha...


Thanks Justin and Ella! The girls LOVE their bath stuff! 

Gramma and Grandpa arrived the day before so they were able to celebrate Christmas morning with us! Kenley made this melting bead creation for Gramma...


The girls LOVED their Lilly planners and immediately began checking off all the days that had already past! This is totally going to be a tradition! 


Stockings may be my favorite Christmas thing to shop for! I packed lots of little tiny things into the girls stockings (felt ball craft kit, wooden mermaid doll, toothbrushes, some other little trinkets and a stuffed dog that looks like Moxie for Kenley, and a stuffed deer for CLO). I filled my stocking with the free goodies I got with the girls Lilly planners and I filled Brian's stocking with beef jerky and circus peanuts. I saw an idea on the Dating Divas website to make shopping for each others stockings into a date and I think we will do that next year! 


Kenley and Brian were feeling a little bit better at this point so they went to Church with Fred and Terri while Claire and I stayed home and napped...

Sweet Christmas...

Happy 29th Birthday Brian!! 


We finished the night with a game of Castles of Burgundy! The Gjertsens gifted us with this game when we moved from NC and we are obsessed with it! Brian and I play after the girls go to bed all the time now! 

Christmas Week 2015

Friday, January 29, 2016

Last night as a 4 year old!! 


Happy Birthday dinner at Mexican with Grammy and Gramps! 





After dinner we came home, made gingerbread houses, then the girls got to open their presents from Grammy and Gramps...


Tired random crying girl... This was the first sign that she was maybe not feeling well...



Sad goodbyes...

At Claire's birthday party, Asher found one of Timillian's lost collars in our yard. Sweet memento of our kitty...

The girls played with their new toys while I finished up my Christmas present projects... 

Having lots of deadlines for finishing up presents suddenly made me need to stick pictures on the wall of my craft room... haha! I am totally the "if you give a mouse a cookie" kind of crafter... 

hmmm... she may not be feeling well....

Kenley read me this book... I cried. I cry every stinking time even though it is kind of a creepy book! 

Kenley and I snuck out for a date while Daddy and Claire were home sick...

I finished the girls Waldorf Heavy Babies...

I also made the girls mattresses and pillows for their new (to them) baby cradles...


I suddenly realized that the girls didn't have enough healthy play food so I made them some lemon salmon with broccoli which is a regular on our dinner menu...

I played with different stitches on the backs to make the skin of the salmon... I made a few other play foods to gift to them for Christmas but I can't find pictures of those so I will have to do a separate post on that! 

After I finished up all of my Christmas sewing and crafting I finally caught the bug. :( 
We were all so sick on Christmas day that we postponed "doing Christmas" but the girls each got to open a present from Grammy in between naps and throwing up...


Our tree was so dead at this point! Hanging on by a bungee cord attached to the lamp. This was our Christmas.... I can laugh about it now... a month later :) 

Sweet baby. This is why I ended up getting sick too. I can't resist cuddles from this sweet face...

 
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