GILCHRIST FAMILY

Friday, January 31, 2014

Christmas in New York

Santa came a little early for us again this year due to our travel plans over the holidays! So on December 21st the boys woke up to presents under the tree, a McDonalds breakfast (I was too tired to cook), and a trip to the movies for later that afternoon!

Grayer loves Garfield, so I made his P.J.'s

It was fun having TWO boys to spoil this year!!

Gingerbread House

Grayer loves to make a gingerbread house each Christmas and since this was Finden's first Christmas he joined in for the best part, licking the frosting off the beaters:)

Grandma and Grandpa C.

While both our parents were here Andy't parents and sister stayed at our place and my parents stayed in a hotel. My Dad had just had hip surgery less than 2 week prior to coming out so he didn't want to have to do worry about our stairs. Plus, our place is little so it would have to been too squishy to have everyone here!!! Grayer loved that they stayed in a hotel because he got to spend a night with them there. And we got to go swimming a couple of times with them.

One morning we met them at a little bagel shop down the street from the hotel for breakfast!

Thursday, January 30, 2014

November 30th!!

November 30th 2013 was a day our family will never forget. It was the day we were able to seal our little Finden Linford to our family for time and all eternity in the Palmyra, NY Temple!

The day was wonderful with only a few mishaps of forgetting the adoption papers and Finden hitting his head creating a nice red mark on his forehead:)

But all of those things we soon forgotten and replaced with a wonderful spirit as we knelt around the alter as a little family of 4 and were sealed together. We were blessed to have our wonderful family there along with many of our dear friends! This adoption has been an amazing experience and blessing for our family and this day was just the icing on the cake!!

We asked a friend from our ward who is a very talented photographer to take a few pictures. It was freezing but I love the few we got!!

After the Temple we all went out to dinner to the Cheese Cake Factory to celebrate our special day!!

Look at how sweet he is!!! Love you Finden:)

THANKSGIVING

2013 was my first time hosting Thanksgiving!! Because our family came from across the country I couldn't give them food assignments to bring with them. So even though I had lots of help in the kitchen I had to grocery shop and plan for the whole thing!

IT WAS REALLY FUN!!

And it all went really smooth except for the fact that we underestimated the time it would take for the Turkey to cook, so we ended up eating like 3 hours later than we planned so by the time dinner was served we were all STARVING.