Some Fun Trips

At the end of December I took Emily and five of her good friends down to the Washington DC Temple. These are some of Emily's friends from high school who are not members of our church but who have seen the temple and been curious to visit and learn a little more about what temples are for and about our church, in general.We watched the film, Joseph Smith and the Restoration, looked at the different displays and, of course, saw the beautiful Christmas lights.

Then we stopped on the way home and got Mexican food at Chevy's. Thanks for a great day....Emily, Kelly, Heather, Kathy, Devon, and Julia. It was so much fun!!

Then.......

For Steve's birthday, he and I took the day and went to NYC. We were able to attend a session at the Manhattan temple and then saw WICKED.

It was Steve's first time seeing the play and he loved it. Afterwards we tried a great little restaurant called Swizz and enjoyed a delicious dinner. Couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day in the city....just a wonderful, relaxing getaway. Happy 50th, hun.

Merry Christmas

As always, Christmas is a much anticipated time at our house. Now that we have children away from home, we especially look forward to the return of children from college. We were without two of our kids this year because Janelle, Scott, and baby Alan traveled to Oregon to be with his family and Geoffrey was, of course, in Albania on his mission.

We missed them all, but were glad that they were where they were supposed to be this year.

We anxiously awaited the day when Stephanie and Emily would come home for Christmas break from BYU. Unfortunately their arrival was delayed by a HUGE snow storm which technically arrived after they were due in. But the airlines were good enough to cancel their flight anyway. We got them home two days late, but safely. Church was cancelled due to the snow, and we worked awfully hard that day to clear our way and our neighbor's way out of the snow. We were very thankful for our snow blower. We got over 2 feet of snow in the storm.

It was so nice to be together as a family and enjoy the music, food, and fun of the season. There is nothing like family.

Our "traditional" Nativity on Christmas Eve

(Check out the wise man...or should I say wise guy)

Waiting on the stairs on Christmas morning....

.....and checking out the loot!!!
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!!!

A Fun Foulk Thanksgiving

This was the first year that we had Thanksgiving officially at our house. It was a wonderful day. Our college kids were in Idaho and Geoffrey was on his mission, but we still had a very nice group of family and friends here. In addition to our little family we had Grandma Foulk, Tracey and Chuck, Joe and Eloise, and our friend Linda. We also had some family that we had never met before, the Harmons from Delaware. They are from Arizona originally but are here in the East, working for a law firm. They have three little kids and it was so fun to meet them and get to know them.

The kids did the traditional Domino Turkey, too. Way fun!!!