Friday, December 31, 2021

New Year's Eve...

Today the four of us went to Idaho Falls and had lunch at Cafe Rio then did a little shopping at Big Al's and Costco.  Cole went snowmobiling with some buddies.  That night we made Waffles and some more of the butter syrup.  It was really good.  We watched some football then Kacie and I started a Peter Pan puzzle.  It was pretty fun when Scott joined us.  Cole didn't make it to midnight and our little toast.



Cheers!!! Happy New Year's!
We love it when we get to visit Cole and Kacie and it never lasts long enough.  We headed home Saturday the 1st and we had clear roads all the way.  We were pretty lucky since it snowed the whole time we were in Rexburg.
 

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Kacie's 23rd Birthday...

We originally planned to leave early morning of the 29th to go to Rexburg so on the 28th I woke up and ran my 52nd 5K, showered and went to work.  I was pretty proud of myself for completing my goal of running one 5K a week for the year.  It only took me all year to run it in 30 minutes...haha! While I was at work we decided we better leave a day earlier because of the snow coming in so I closed the office at 1:30 so I could go home to hurry and pack and head out.   We ate in Burley at Costa Vida and had clear roads until we got to Blackfoot where we had about 20 miles of black ice which was a little scary.  We finally got to their house around 9:30 which wasn't too bad.

On the 29th we took some birthday pictures with Kacie, had lunch at Mill Hollow then we went to Idaho Falls for a little shopping and Dutch Bros.  Later that night we had a reservation at the Teton House in Menan.  It was really good!  We then went back to their house for some Cake and Ice Cream.  We were sure glad we left the 28th to travel because it snowed all day long on Kacie's birthday.






I can't believe my girl is 23!!
She is so cute and we love her sooooo much!!!
The next day the two of us got pedicures which was fun!  Then we went to see Sing 2 while Cole was at work.  It was a cute movie.  That night Scott grilled us some chicken and made some pork fried rice.


 

Saturday, December 25, 2021

Christmas...


Brady's main gift is our trip to Disney World at the end of January!  But he also got a blog book which he loves, a couple of calendars, an Under Armor sweatshirt & T-shirt plus some chocolate covered raisins and his stocking full of stuff.  One of his calendars has a daily history lesson which will be fun!

Brandon got a magnet board plus some cool magnets about music and sports balls plus a family picture, an Under Armor backpack, sweatshirt and T-shirt, 35 pack of Coke zero, Linder balls, 2 playstation games and all his stocking stuff.  The best gift he gave us was being so happy, not swearing and sleeping from 9:00 pm until 7:30 am on Christmas Eve.  The next night he slept from 11:00pm until about 3:00am then Scott stayed up with him.


We are hosting the Talbot Christmas party so Scott was stressing over it for a little while especially because this is his first time cooking a standing rib roast and Yorkshire pudding.
Cole and Kacie came around noon and we exchanged our gifts.  We got Cole the nice Fox bag for his gear when he goes motorcycle riding.  Kacie's gift is our trip to Disney World.  Brady got Cole some Under Armor slides and a 4 pack of sugar-free Red Bulls.  They gave Brady a cute Stranger Things sweatshirt.

They gave Scott a nice pair of Oakley sunglasses and for me a really cute pair of white with black camo brooks running shoes.  I love them!  Mom and Dad also came over and gave the kids their gifts which was money for Disney World and Cole got some bi-pods.



Gift from Grandpa and Grandma Schulthies
(unfortunately it was too big so I had to exchange it for a medium and they only had it in the army green color and they had to bring it in from another D&B Supply store so he won't have it for awhile.)

My gift is another great family picture!(:

They gave us all money for our trip to Disney World.  And they were really nice to watch Brandon for us during the Talbot party.  He just doesn't do well with big groups.





Our food turned out so good.  I don't know if I have ever had a better roast and Yorkshire pudding.  After we ate and had pie we did our gift exchange.  Brady got a nice Stanley mug and this picture from Dumb and Dumber but ended up trading Ryan the picture for some M&Ws.

Such a cute family.  I loved how the girls warmed up to me.



Wanda opened up my Harry Potter 1000-piece puzzle and 2 bottles of butterbeer but I think Lindsay ended up with it.  We loved having Alex and Kevin's family with us.  They almost didn't come because of all the snow.

Stacie opened my big case of Body Armor drinks and Dots pretzels but Tyler ended up with it.  Kacie stole my Christmas Pig book written by J.K. Rowling and a $15 gift card to Dutch Bros.  I read the book prior to make sure it would be worth giving and I thought it was really cute.


Cole opened up some beer nuts and a set of knives and I think he ended up with them.




This was hilarious when Coleman opened this bubble wrap with Ryan's face all over it.  I think it also had a Bath and Body Works gift card with it.  It was stolen a couple of times and Wanda ended up with it.

Scott stole this Christmas Nativity with a Texas Roadhouse gift certificate.
Kevin was adding a spotlight with music!
Cuties!!!

Anya kept wanting to see all of my Disney snow-globes so I picked her up so she could see better.  She is so cute!
I made a coconut cream, two sour cream lemon and a cherry cheese pie plus we bought a pumpkin pie from Costco.  They were all super yummy.  I was so happy everyone liked them and there was enough.  The party was a lot of fun and the food was delicious, what more could you ask for.  I gave Stacie a photo stick and a gnome.  I gave Kris a sweater and a gnome and I also gave Alex, Rachel and Farrell gnomes.  I hope they liked them.  Kris gave me some Bath and Body Work soap and a $50 gift card to Nike.  (I got a army green sweatshirt with camo on the sleeves and some tights.  I had to add $26 for my purchase.)  Stacie gave my a nice Christmas blanket pictured below.
It was a great Christmas!!