New Year's Eve, Day

We spent the next couple of days tidying up the house and back yard. December is month the leaves fall here, and after ignoring the yard for a few weeks, it was in quite a state.

Along with working hard, Violet worked to build her Lego Christmas gifts. Nan and Pop gave her the Newt Scamander set she really wanted, from the Fantastic Beasts series, and Stace and I gave her a coding robot set. First she built the robot, hooked into the app on her kindle, and then programmed it to move and talk. Cool stuff!

On New Year's Eve, we went out to run some errands and ended up having a late lunch/early dinner at Pei Wei.

Here you can see yet another funny face of Violet's. She's becoming quite a champion of face-making at photo time.

Stace was fighting a cold, so we didn't do a lot on New Year's Eve. We watched a movie together at home and toasted the turn into 2019 as a foursome.

Cora turned a gold mirror into this beauty, adding the paint, marbles an crystal accents. She is very crafty, and was proud of this one in particular, because she didn't follow any YouTube instructions!

On New Year's Day, Stace still wasn't feeling good, but he rallied and prepared a lovely meal. My parents came over for a roast dinner, and we then played Apples to Apples. New Year's Resolution: more family board game nights!

Here's to 2019. May we notice the blessings.