January Flies By - Welcome 2011

Well - January has been great and thankfully quick. We have done more around home than usual - and it has been good to be low key. We have gone skiing a couple of times, and Cute Graham got the croup (he sounded so bad, poor little guy!). But, all in all, it has just been a uneventful, easy January. Chad and I are both playing basketball for the ward. The kids seem to have days off from school constantly! And, the weather glimmers warm enough now and then that Kate takes a little bike ride (she LOVES riding her bike). Everyone is good. Our biggest news is that Graham is now 11 months old! I can't believe he is almost a year old. He won't crawl, but gets around without it. Mostly in a modified sitting position. It is pretty funny to watch. What a cutie. Our family will start getting a little more exciting as the weather warms, I am sure. Right now we are just in "training". Happy 2011!

December is a blast!

Well, we are winding up the Holiday season, and we have been having a ton of fun! Carson's teacher gave her class a "recipe" book with lots of fun things to try. The biggest hit at our house was snow paint - food color and water in a spray bottle. We had a couple of days of fun with that - and it seemed all ages liked it. Here are Carson and his friends in their snow spiral - enhanced with snow paint. What a fun idea!


It was our cute Graham's first Christmas. Since he was almost 10 months old on Christmas day, we were mostly expecting him to enjoy ripping the paper off of the presents. The other kids were so excited for him to open his presents from them. It was hard to give him enough space to do the work without all of his sibling helpers getting in the way. It was cute to watch him, but he tired out early and had to have a nap. The rest of us enjoyed the feeling of giving for a long time on Christmas morning.

Well, the fun didn't stop with Christmas day - Brett and Marianne's family introduced us to Trafalga Lehi - and we loved the enormous laser tag arena and the fun climbing wall. What a fun day!

We also finally made it to Incredible Pizza - even though it is only a short distance from our house. The kids had a blast!!!! What a fun place. We rode everything until the parents were too tired. Well, it has been a fun holiday season!