January Fun

Bridget and Josie took a quick trip to Cedar City for Alice Braithwaite's funeral (Elaine and Ally's grandma). Josie loved hanging out with Grandad.  Here is is decorating Josie's arm while wearing an awesome handkerchief hat.

Bridget, Elaine, Jenny, and Brooke.  We played How Great Thou Art and her lovely funeral.  She was a truly wonderful woman and such a great example.

Rachel has been having lots of fun.  Here she is sledding with Brynn Evans and Hannah Scott.

 She also went to the trampoline park with some friends.

 Ian is our little adventurer.

 Rachel made a cheese robot.

Bridget and Ian won find 10 things.  We later discovered that we'd made a mistake on one of the items, but we'll still take part of the honor.

 It was a crazy, crazy cold midnight snow run this year.  The snow was super icy so it cut up our feet a little.  Absolutely insane and absolutely memorable.

 Josie made a cute 2014 hat at preschool.

 We've had lots of loom and sewing projects lately.  We've nicknamed Rachel "Loomy".

 She made this pillow all by herself.

 Andy likes to climb on everything - groceries included.

 We loved our panda Christmas puzzle that took a couple of weeks to finish.

 One family night we made cupcakes that we colored with edible markers.  Delicious and messy.

 Rachel made this with her food.

 We took Justin to the museum and had a fun day.

 The kids had a sleepover and general fun.

 Ian sewed this monster all by himself.

 Rachel hosted a fancy tea party and these two showed up like this.

Ian figured out he could write notes.  Here's an example of a mean one that made Bridget laugh, but don't worry he got a serious talking to.

Cute Erin Dixon invited Josie to come to her class as for a special preschool day.  Josie loved feeling so grown-up at the Junior High.

 Rachel has turned into our little inventor.  Here she is with her "automatic drink cleaner".

 The kids made a zoo one day.  Here are the cats,

 pandas,

 monkeys, and bears.

 Cute Ian's class had a great Chinese New Year's party.

 It was fun to celebrate it with him.

He even got real Chinese money!

 To celebrate we had a fancy Chinese night.  Ian and Josie took some serious time to decorate.

 When we took family pictures here was a cute one of Rachel reading to the kids.

 Uncle Brian and Sandy totally spoiled the kids with Christmas presents.  They have been over the moon about these things.  Thank you!

 Josie loves to sing and the first day we go the Frozen music she sat here and listed to it for almost 2 hours singing along.  She would go back to the beginning of songs again and again until she had it learned.

That is the end - ta da!