February 2016

Here are a few pictures and highlights from February.  

- We found a little Yorkie on our property.  Ella and Abby wanted to keep it but we just took it back to the owners.  Abby tells everyone that "Toby died and went to an angel".  She never knew Toby on this earth but she sure talks about him a lot

- Abby is still napping.  She tells me she is tried and brings me a book to read to her.  She crawled in my bed the other day for a nap and put on my cute eye covers.  

- Ella and Journey dress up Abby all the time.  Lipstick, hair and clothes.  Abby loves it.  

- I have the same picture of Ella wearing those boots when she was little.  One day I will find that pictures and put it here.  

- Ella is doing gymnastics.  Its amazing to see her soar.  She loves it so much. She pushes herself hard.  She is improving so fast.  ...well... she practices all day every day.  She is always doing a flip or cartwheel or something EVERYWHERE!

 

- Darren has still been riding a lot.  He runs, skies and bikes really early in the morning so he can be home with the family.

- Tyler and Ella started a rock climbing class.  They love it finally!  Abby climbs on the rock outside the store for her climbing practice.  It is one of those cool sports where they do hard things and they are surrounded by their peers.  That is some good peer pressure right there.

My friend Sarah and I have been to 3 or 4 temple open houses together.  This time at the Provo City Center temple we are asked at the end to come help with the booties they put on your feet.  In exchange we got a private tour of some of the rooms that they dont show on the tour.  It was neat.  Quiet peaceful and lots of neat details and stories he told us.  He also shared an amazing testimony at the end of the tour.  The next day I went back with Renee and Cousin Megan.  Lots of little kids but goo.

I still love where I live.  It brings a lot of peace to my life.  My backyard is wonderful and the mnts that are close by are priceless.  I took my kids up skiing a lot this year.  It is definitely my happy place up there on skis.

We had a great weekend with Corie and Nolans kids.  We have fun walks. We went to Schools to see the animals.  We played a lot.  And its really fun because all the kids are getting older and they play well and go to sleep well.

Jenny came down to do some house shopping.  We are all thrilled she is moving to Utah.  Darren is in the background (sleeping) supervising the boys games.  Tyler is a thinker.  He loves to read.  He loves games.  Teya and him have had a good friendship for years.  A bit of competition never hurts.  We also attended Beth and Ben's birthday bash.  The piñata was super fun.  Tyler asked me if we could slip away and go play the organ in the chapel.  Lots of fun to see him doing so well with music.  He has been playing prelude or postlude for several months in church.  I am so proud of him.