Kate’s Christmas Dance Recital

Kate has been semi-enjoying dance this year. She really likes doing her own poses and when they get to do interpretive dancing, it’s pretty precious.

BYU vs Baylor

We decided to head down to the lovely town of Provo one Saturday in December. It ended sad, but we had a good time—I even ran into a friend from junior high, that was fun!
Kate, Scott, and Dad

Kate, Dad, Austin, me, Scott
Scott

Kate, Jeff, and Austin

The kids loved it, we’ll have to go to a few more!

Gingerbread houses

The Monday before Christmas, we got brave and made some gingerbread houses. My sister suggested we make the houses before and decorate them later—this would not have happened if we hadn’t done that! Kate was very into it. I made the frosting to runny, but that just made things more interesting.

Scott was pretty serious and really wanted to decorate (it probably helps that he got the house my mom made)
Austin enjoyed eating treats.

Kate was also very into it. Hers turned out really fun!
Scott with finished house.

Austin with finished house.





The great thing about this first batch of gingerbread houses—we have nowhere to go but up!

Finally a snow day!!

It made me so happy to wake up to snow on the ground! We have had so little snow, I just was starting to think we’d get to spring without any real snow. So, even though we only had about 3 inches, we all went out and played. The kids lasted so long, I couldn’t believe it! They did a little sledding (translation: me or Jeff pulling them on the sled), snow angels, a wicked snowball fight, and snowmans.

One great thing about Utah—you can pull your bikes out in January! (Austin)

Kate worked really hard on this snowman and was very proud!

Scott was freezing. Turns out gloves aren’t such a bad idea!
This should probably be my facebook profile pic.
I think my favorite thing was the snowball fight and hearing Austin or Scott yell, “You better run mom!” before having a snowball thrown at me (meaning I got a hug with snow on their hands). Today was a good day!

Funny Kids

A little background: Whenever we are bathing the kids, I always tell them they need baths so they don't have stinky bums, so today we had this conversation...

Me: "When we get home, I'm going to hop in the shower."

Austin: "So you don't have a stinky bum?"

(Jeff thinks this is TMI, but I'm still laughing about it)

A few nights ago, Kate was struggling to finish her dinner. In an attempt at negotiation, she asked, "How about I just have 20 more bites, then I'm done?"

Tonight, it happened again, but she must be figuring things out because she asked for only 9 more bites.

Decorating for Christmas

Since we had ZERO pictures from Christmas last year, this year, I will try to do some makeup…


Austin left, Scott right

Kate Dance

Kate is doing dance again this year and is enjoying it pretty well. This is her first recital right before Halloween.