My dad gave his two sisters, Dana and Susan, and their families Krispy Kreme doughnuts for Christmas. Susan ad her family got their doughnuts from Krispy Kreme door dash just fine but Dana's had some complications. The door dash dude gave it to the wrong address. So Dana got a dozen doughnuts free (but they had to pick it up themselves the next day) and daddy got a refund! Then Dana's neighbor (the one who got the doughnuts) dropped the doughnuts by at their house so they were able to have 2 dozen doughnuts! We used the refund money to buy some doughnuts for our selves and tonight was doughnut night! here are some pictures!
Ok so two days ago it was Izzy's birthday! She had a really fun time and now she's 6! these are some of her presents!
I made a balloon animal all by my self!!!!! I didn't think that I could do it b/c 1) I didn't know how to and I had zero instructions and 2) I have never made one before in my life. 3) I was basing my precious long ballon on a tiny LEGO BALLOON ANIMAL. So yeah I was a little intimidated. But I figured it out and now I have a ballon animal dog! I overestimated how much/little I needed to use for the dog (the tail is a bit long.)
YAY,🎉🎈It's Izzy's birthday!!!!!!!! And it's Josies!!! Yeah, so Josie was born exactly one year after Izzy was born so, right on Izzys birthday. Anyway, for Izzys birthday we went to Pocahontas mountain bike trails. Izzy really wanted to go there so we did. She especially loves a trail called freight liner. Freight liner is a 'trail' that isn't in the woods and it starts at the top of a hill and it has giant hills (rollers) that you go over super fast and you can do awesome jumps and get a ton of air if you pull up correctly. The trail only takes like one min. so you can bike up the hill and do it again and again. So that is Izzy's favorite trail there. Then after we did freight liner a couple of times we went on a trail that had been closed for a while called Blueberry. Blueberry was closed so they could clean up the trail so we were super excited to ride it again when we got there. In the end, we biked 5.8 miles, Izzy went on the whole trail and hardly got off to walk! I am SO proud of Izzy for biking the 5 miles and she's only 6! WAY to go Izzy! After that, my Aunt Laura (who lives in Utah and is my mom's twin) came down to our house. She is staying with us for Christmas but doesn't leave till the 28th! Izzy and daddy went to Noodles and compony to get her favorite, chicken noodle soup, for lunch. Then I made Izzy's birthday present I was going to give to her! Her cake! So Izzy drew a picture of how she wanted her cake to look like.
This is the cake I made for Izzy. It's a 'panda lollypop forest' according to Izzy. Mama didn't get a unicorn toy like Izzy wanted but I think it looks better with just the pandas.
It's finally Christmas time, which means we can make and eat all of the delicious treats that we only get to have at Christmas time! This yesterday I made Toffee with my mom!!! mmmmmmmmmmmm it is SOSOSOSOSO GOOOOOOOOOD!!!! Toffee is basically hard caramel and chocolate on the top but it is SO Good!!!! The hardest part about making Toffee is knowing when the caramel will be ready so that when it cools it will harden enough to be able to crack it into pieces but not too hard it can't and not too soft it will stretch. We usually make Toffee and give it to our teachers and neighbors but this year since it's online we didn't have any teachers that we could give it to, so it's just neighbors and us this year! So I helped with that! I also made some peppermint bark and it is also SOSOSO GOOD!!! We didn't have any white chocolate 😕 which I'm kinda sad about b/c I think it tastes better with peppermint than milk chocolate but hey, peppermint bark is peppermint bark!! So that was really fun to make and test taste!😋!
I'll post the pictures when I can!
Then I turned on Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer b/c it's the only Christmas DVD we had in the house and we hadn't watched it in a while. but... as I was watching it I realized that Rudolph is kind of messed up. Dude his father is a real jerk and SUPER ashamed of his son His solution? A prosthetic, which does give his son a regular reindeer appearance, even though it’s clear from his altered voice that poor Rudolph can’t breathe through this thing. then his father, Donner is like “There are things more important than comfort! “Like self-respect! Santa can’t object to you now…” WOW ummmmmmmm yeah and he goes through self-reflection while looking for Rudolph but too bad nobody went looking for Clarisse so.... I guess her parents don't care about her... And also Santa is also super mean, when Rudolph flies after clarese calls him cute Santa walks up and says "not bad, not bad!" but then Rudolph's fake nose pops off and Santa comes up to Donner (Rudolph's dad) and was angry at Donner b/c his son's nose was red and Santa wanted him on the team but didn't just because he looked slightly different. like dude, that's out of his control. he literally says "Donner you should be ashamed of yourself, and what a pity he had a great take-off too!" like wow, great lesson your teaching to kids. Also, Mrs. Clause is force-feeding Santa ummm....ok...... anyway I'm just ranting about Rudolph. Sorry this isn't about my life right now, so I'll stop😏😐😶😬
This afternoon Mama was at a doctor's appointment for a checkup on the baby b/c she is pregnant. So Callie and I were in charge. I had to finish up school so Callie played with Corban, Nolan, and Izzy. Callie made some hot chocolate from scratch and toasted some bread. We had a hot chocolate party and talked for a while. it was a lot of fun.
So this Sunday afternoon me Corban, Nolan, and Daddy played a very stressful monopoly game! It was really fun. We made a rule to help the game go faster; if you land on a property you have the option to buy all of the properties in the same color, and you can buy just that one you landed on or all of them, and other people can buy other properties of that same color if not already owned. Ok so Nolan owned all of the railroads (which didn't prophet him much) and corban owned the whole strip of properties leading up to "free parking", and I owned all of the properties leading from "go to jail" and "Go" and Daddy owned nothing. We also have the rule that anything you buy goes into the pot in the middle of the board and if anyone lands on "free parking" they get all of the money in the pot instead of the bank, and the pot also starts out with $50. it was intense and Daddy and Nolan became bankrupt so it was down to me and Corban (it usually does b/c we actually take the game 'semi-seriously' and Callie has vowed to never play monopoly again b/c of the great battle of cousin monopoly that happened like 6 years ago) So me and corban were playing and I have a great tendency to land on "free parking" A LOT!!!!! so overall at the end of the game I had landed on free parking 9 times (all HUGE buckets of money) and corban only 2 times and one was only a 50 dollar bill 😆. Ok more "Hall Rules" I'll mention. ok so if you land on your own property you get $1. If you get doubles you get to go again. you can get out of jail for free if you roll doubles but you only have three turns to do so. if you land right on "GO" you get $300. You can donate to other people to keep them alive (if you wish for this devil game to last longer😂😈) If someone doesn't have enough money you can ask for properties instead. And there are probably a lot more but yeah those are the basics.
We each had like $4,000 dollars just in 500’s so that pic is of Corban throwing the $500 dollars in the air to show that! 
I had just landed on one of corbans properties (as you can tell) he was very happy in that pic!YAY, it is finally 🌲December🌲 So that means Christmas is only 24 days away!!!! YES!😊 That also means people are encouraged to do good and serve. So, the church I go to always puts out this thing every year called to light the world. Its purpose is to encourage people to do good things during this season and to remember christ by being christ like, if you want to know more about it you can press HERE there is also a calendar with ideas for stuff you can do to 'light the world' if you want to see the calendar you can click HERE. I love the light the world program because it helps us all remember that the season isn't all about getting (although that is a perk😉) it's also about giving and I've found that when you give to other people it makes you even happier and it's just the best! btw today is
Hero Highlight: Who represents Christlike love to you? Highlight them on social media.
So I am going to highlight my mom because she is always so kind and loving and is really christlike she is super helpful and always tries to make us feel better and is very understanding and she is a great teacher.
YAYAYAYAYYAYAYAY I am SOSOSO happy about how my short 'film' TURNED OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAY YES!!!! I LOVE the running scene mwah so so good! Guys this took me like 2 weeks but it only is 2 min but YES!!! so worth it tho!!!!!!! no emojis can describe how happy I am!!!!! it took me 3 hours to scan all of the 141 pictures!!!! and then like 1 hour so put all of them on the computer, 20 min LOVING how the pictures look, 3 hours editing!! I REALLY wanted to put music that I composed on the ukulele in the background of the video but if I put music in the background it would trip up and stop the animation, so it's not in there
I wish I could've drawn the girl more realistically but that would've taken like half an hour every time she was on the screen to draw her so I went with an anime-ish sort of face b/c it only takes like 2 min to draw. YAYAYAYAYAYYAYAY SOHAPPPYYYY!!
