December Wrap Up

Just a few December wrap up items:

Here is a quick look at gas prices ($3.65 a gallon), and over $50 to fill up the van recently. Gas is certainly more expensive, but actually we've seen gas at this price before, it is really everything else that is crazy. You can see inflation everywhere in prices you pay for things. There are a ton of food items that before you would never buy for a certain price and now you just have to do it. Some other notable inflation items are: Little Caesars Hot and Ready Pizza is now $5.55, my Arby's coupons came this month and most of the deals were $1 more, so the 2 for $4 roast beef sandwich coupon is now 2 for $5. 

Shantel captured this cute picture of the kids (let's call it right before the prayer) at Molly's baby blessing. We were able to go to Molly's baby blessing and had a really great time there. Jenna and Kevin just bought a new house in Perry and this was our first time being able to go there and see it. 

Also, as always, cousins together couldn't be better. 

We celebrated my mom's birthday and got her an Aura frame that makes it easy for all of us kids to upload photos for her from our phones so she can see lots of cute pictures of our kids. It is a big birthday for her, she turned 70 this year. 

Also, Shantel scanned a couple photos to add to the frame. Here are a few of our family photos from growing up. 

My company (Eide Bailly) is the suite level sponsor of the Utah Jazz and so we ended up having our most recent visit from our CEO at Vivint Arena. They made the presentation and at the very end, they actually let us go down and shoot on the court (with no shoes) for a few minutes. It was super fun. 

We all watched The Star together (one of our favorite Christmas movies). 

Lucy broke her nose. It feels like this should probably have its own post, but there is less to say about this than you might think. Lucy and Caleb where just playing and running around and somehow Lucy got knocked over and fell into the couch. The couch is actually not the item I"m worried about the kids hitting there head on, but she hit her nose and started crying. I went over and picked her up and her nose started bleeding. I honestly thought she would be fine in two minutes. However, she kept crying and you could tell it must really hurt. She probably cried and wanted to be held for about 30 minutes, which is really unusually for a kid when they just get bumped and it hurts a little bit. I told Shantel her nose might be broken the way she was acting. Somehow, we did not get a real good photo, but her nose swelled up so much that it looked totally flat. After a few days the swelling went down some, but it was still really discolored (it is hard to see in the pictures below, but it is really yellow). We decided to take her to the doctor to see what they think and Dr. Foster at Alpine Pediatrics told Shantel that it is definitely broken. The important thing will just be to make sure it heals correctly and he thinks we should probably take her to an ENT to verify that is looks like it is healing correctly. With Christmas, we have not done that yet, but in the new year, we'll take her in. We also have to take Austin in for an ear thing, so they can go together. If her noes looks funny in any Christmas pictures, that is why. 

We had one good snow and the kids had fun playing out in it. Even a week or so later with some of the extra little bit of snow we got, Caleb and Lucy were able to go out and go down the sledding hill. It was so cute because they could down down all by themselves.