Christmas break is here!  We are so excited to finally be out of school and have a nice long holiday break! We headed to temple square and to see the lights downtown one night. It was crowded, but so beautiful!
Emily and her friend worked on their science fair project.  Their project was testing tastes of cookies. 

Lights at temple square followed by gelato at Sweetaly! 

The next day we met cousins at the nickel arcade, and then swapped kids for a cousin playdate. Emily loves to snuggle up in our bed with her bunny Joey! Cutest little bunny ever!

Sunday was Christmas Eve!  We had a wonderful meal of homemade pizza on our new pizza oven! It makes delicious pizza and we had fun making it too! 

We had a program, opened sibling gifts, the elves dropped by with pj's too. Lots of fun, excitement, energy anticipating Christmas Day! 

It even started snowing a bit on christmas eve! Which makes it feel so much more magical! 

Christmas day came bright and early!  The kids were awake and ready to go!
Lizzie got an American Girl Doll, dog etc...
Isaac got a cool nerf gun, and a big lego set.
Emily got skis and her new kindle, and clothes.
Taylor also got skis, a robe, a concussion helmet.
Danny traded in his new boat for a new bigger boat and also got his new Ukulele from Hawaii! 

Christmas day we opened gifts, had a big delicious breakfast, and then headed up to Alta for a day of skiing! We had fun on the slopes and it as fun to be outside, poor Isaac was on Hot chocolate duty with his broken arm 

There was a gorgeous sunset on the way home from skiing! What a great day! 

Tuesday we went and saw the movie Coco with cousins. Then Wednesday we headed to Provo for bowling, lunch and dinner and then the big Shields Christmas Party extravaganza!
it was a fun and exhausting day and night! 

Thursday morning Joey was sick and we took him to the vet.  He could not be healed. It was a hard, sad awful day but Joey died. Emily was heartbroken and really sad. she couldn't even talk about it. Lots of happy memories with Joey and we will really miss him!  

Friday they took the boat out on the lake to try fishing. Saturday we hing out at home and got this interesting package from someone Danny works with. It was two live lobsters from Maine!! It was so surprising and we didn't know what to think about it. 

Saturday night we all met for dinner Adults only at Trio.  It was an early New Years Eve day celebration. 

Good food, fun and lot of laughs! 

Cute Lizzie and her new American Girl Doll matched for Church today and she was thrilled! 

Lobsters for Lunch!  It was an excitng lunch!