Driver's license!

 Natalie is official. She has her real drivers license. Not just a permit anymore! Now I just need to get up the nerve to let her be a driver! She has so many things going on in her life right now. So many big milestones! It is so fun to watch this beautiful girl grow up. She is such a blessing in our lives. And the best first child we could have ever had!!

Asked and Answered!

Natalie asked Dallin two sweethearts. She put this on the front step of his house and sprinkled tootsie rolls all around. It says "Hey tootsie wanna roll to sweethearts with me?" Unwrap the candy to see which tootsie wants to roll with you!"

We hid Natalie's name in one of the wrappers.

Dallin answered by having Natalie's seminary teacher (who is Dallin's cousin) call her out of class and gave her this.

A tootsie boquet.

Inside of one of the tootsie pops there was a dum dum sucker.

It is fun to be back into the scene of creative asking and answering!  People are so creative!

Natalie's sweet 16 party!!

Natalie wanted to have a pretty simple and fun party. She wanted to have snacks and a hot chocolate bar.

Here she is showing off the decorations before everyone came.

Here is the hot chocolate bar and the fun things to mix in.

Natalie only invited her closest friends and the kids that she knew would want to play games!

I took a few random pictures of the cute kids while they played games. Other than that I just made lots of hot chocolate and tried to fade into the background.

They had a lot of fun and played pictionary, reverse charades, catch phrase,

and they also had a break to play piano and ukulele! Natalie has some amazing friends. I'm glad she has them. I think overall she had a great celebration of turning 16!

New Year's Eve

 We spent the night as a family to ring in the New Year!

We played games,

Watched movies, ate lots of food,

Watched the ball drop, and had lots of fun.

Streamers, sparkling cider and all!