Showing posts with label Sean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sean. Show all posts

Monday, December 4, 2023

Happy Birthday Sean!

Yesterday my family celebrated Sean's 19th birthday!  It doesn’t seem possible that he could be this old because it was only yesterday when he was a tiny little boy!  He is not so tiny now!  We went to dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory in Trolley Square (which is one of Sean's favorite restaurants) and then came back to my sister's house for cake and presents.  I gave him the Blu-ray box set of The Big Bang Theory (which he asked me for a month ago).
I love him so much and I am really proud of him for how well he is doing in college.  I hope he had a great day!

Monday, October 23, 2023

Pumpkin Carving 2023

Since Tashena is living in Washington and Sean is in college living in a dorm, Marilyn and I thought that we probably wouldn't be doing some of our holiday traditions this year.  Then Marilyn got a text from Sean asking when we would be carving pumpkins!  We had our annual pumpkin carving party last night while he was home for dinner (my family gets together every Sunday for dinner) and it was a lot of fun!
I am quite proud of my pumpkin this year because it actually turned out like the pattern!
I have a picture like this from every year since he was a little boy!  We'll see if he wants to do gingerbread houses for Christmas!

Saturday, May 27, 2023

Bountiful High School Class of 2023

Yesterday Sean graduated from Bountiful High School and we were all able to watch him receive his diploma at the Dee Events Center.  We are so proud of him because it wasn't easy but he did it!
He will be going to Neumont College in the fall for a Bachelor's Degree in Cyber Security and we are really excited for him!

Monday, December 19, 2022

Gingerbread Houses 2022

Yesterday afternoon Sean, Tashena, Marilyn, and I made gingerbread houses which is a tradition we have had ever since Tashena joined our family and, as always, it was a lot of fun!  This year I got kits for these elaborate gingerbread manor houses because I thought they looked so cool but they ended up taking a long time to decorate!  None of us even bothered to decorate the backs of our houses (Sean didn't even decorate the sides) because they were so big.  They came with lots of candy (I still bought more) and royal icing in bags with piping tips.  It turns out that I am not very good at piping (I even had a major incident in which I got icing everywhere and I had to have Sean get it all back in the bag) but I think it would be fun to learn how to do it better.
I always have to get the traditional picture of Sean eating the icing!
Sean's house.
Tashena's house.
Marilyn's house.
My house.
Our gingerbread village!  I think they all turned out great this year!

Monday, December 5, 2022

Happy 18th Birthday Sean!

Yesterday my family celebrated Sean's birthday (it was actually on Saturday) with dinner, presents, and cake.  I can't believe that he is 18!
He asked for Amazon gift cards and accessories for his computers!  I don't like giving gift cards but he was so happy to receive them!
We have a tradition of having an ice cream cake from Baskin-Robbins for birthdays and Sean has picked this same polar bear cake three times (go here and here).  We had so much fun celebrating with Sean and I hope that he had a very happy birthday!

Monday, October 24, 2022

Pumpkin Carving 2022

Yesterday my family got together for our annual pumpkin carving party and we had so much fun.  We have been doing this with Sean and Tashena since they were really little and every year I wonder if it will be the last time because they will have outgrown it but Sean called me specifically to remind me to buy pumpkins!
I really love this tradition and I think our pumpkins turned out really cool this year!

Friday, December 24, 2021

Gingerbread Houses 2021

One of my family's favorite Christmas traditions is making gingerbread houses and, since we all needed a bit of Christmas cheer yesterday, we had our annual party and then played Shanghai rummy.
We had a lot of fun and, as always, we ate as much candy as we used on our houses!
Marilyn's house
My house
Tashena's house
Sean's house
I think they turned out pretty good this year!
After we made our gingerbread houses, Kristine and Trent joined us for Shanghai rummy.  It honestly felt good to relax a little bit after such a difficult month.  Trent won but the rest of us declared a rematch tonight!
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