The Happiest Christmas Tree

One Christmas when I was about 9, my siblings and I rallied together and wrote a Christmas skit with a thrilling story line surrounding Santa's sleigh - it was too small to fit all the presents in! Whatever was he going to do? Capturing the superb acting and daring theatrical effects, my parents filmed our first stage performance and from  that point on every year until I was married we performed a fresh new skit, boasting new characters, themes, settings. Now that my family is spread out and us siblings aren't often together on Christmas, I've carried the tradition on with my little family. We're not quite to the ages yet where the kids can write and memorize lines, so we're sticking with music videos for now. Here is this year's film - I'm the Happiest Christmas Tree.

Beach Camping 2017

Well I break this 3 year blog silence to debut our beach adventure. This time we had two more kids in tow! Crazy that the last time I blogged Clive wasn't even born yet! IG has dominated my family memories the past few years - much quicker outlet for documentation :)