Enjoying Sicily at Christmas time

 

I know I am behind on blogging about our time in Sicily over the holidays, but really I am in "nesting" mode and trying to figure out just how we are going to add another little body into our 1 bedroom apartment! However, I wanted to share with you a few pictures from our trip. We had a good time and really enjoyed the warm weather in Cefalu' and Palermo!
More to come about baby preparation..... stay tuned!

Christmas by kids

Gingerbread "houfe"

This year our little Lottie bug was much more involoved in the gingerbread house building night! Last year the kits that we bought were full of broken pieces that were difficult and time consuming to frost-glue together before we could build them, and since the candy we were using was already a year old (I bought too much last year) I did not want to be bothered with whipping up royal icing from scratch again this time around. So, we took the shortcut and hot glued everything together! It worked fast and perfect! You can see that Charlotte was very pleased with her HOUFE!
Do you have this tradition?? If you want to pick up a cheap kit we found ours at IKEA.

another reminder

oh, come, let us adore him!

My little one LOVES BOOKS. She could spend at least half of her day carrying around one or two, and flipping through them. I saw a pattern for a nativity book sometime during the year and knew instantly that it needed to be apart of her library!
I started making this the end of Novemeber- I made two, one for Lottie (shown) and one in Italian for a friend Davide- he turned 1 on the 2nd of Dec.
the pattern is online for purchase here
I am very pleased with the finished product! What do you think??









Last weekend we went into the center to hear a christmas concert in the Duomo- after standing for 20min we left, all the seats were taken- and we did not want to stand for 3 hours. So we got some photos and went to a friends house to hang out instead!
Milan's Center- Christmas tree and all!

Charlotte loves walking around- even in the COLD!

Hanging out at the artisan expo

I also made some fabric ornaments that could stand a beating from Lottie.

Just another project! A onsie for a friend due with a boy any day.

Last Sunday I spoke in church. I spoke about missionary work- I talked mostly about the Greatest Gift that we have been given- The Atonement of Jesus Christ! I found many great talks and testimonies given by living apostles- to read a few please see here and here.