This Is Us

For New Year’s this year it was just the six of us. Brichette was with Sam. Nick and I went to a couple stores early in the day to beat the crowds. We got stuff for our “party”.  For our party dinner we had fruits, veggies, both with dips, chips and cheese dip, little smokies, crostinis with cheeseball, muddy buddies, chocolate rice crispy treats, boneless Buffalo wings, chips and queso (both from Chili’s), and my grandma Alice’s meat rolls. We played card games and video games on Xander’s Xbox. We bought small Martinelli’s for each of us and toasted to a fun, wonderful 2022, and a hopeful exciting 2023. We also got lots of snow this weekend. I wanted it for the weekend of Christmas, but oh well. At least we are getting a lot more snow this year and hopefully won’t be in a drought this summer! For some reason I don’t want 2023 to start. I am nervous and worried. I’m not sure why, but I just keep praying that it will be a good year and that whatever comes we can have to strength and...

  Here is our little family Halloween Party this year.   I made mummy dogs (hot dogs in crescent rolls) that I make every year, zombie mac & cheese (regular mac & cheese dyed green), and little bags of chips. We got drinks from the gas station, which we do almost every night. I bought Halloween plates, dessert plates, and napkins. Zain wore Xander's inflatable dinosaur costume, Lydia was Jasmine (except when we went trick-or-treating she wore Xander's inflatable bull rider costume), and Tyler was a police officer. Brichette and Sam joined us (Sam is wearing the white wig). Xander went with his friends to a party. I felt like I was running around all day and hardly got anything done.  It was a crazy night! It got dark before I could get individual pictures of them in their costumes, so I took them the next day.  Although Zain wouldn't let me take it, so there's that!