February

Hello! I can't believe its the end of the month already. I decided I had better post the pictures I've taken in this past month before I get too overwhelmed! I've already mentioned before that I love Winter and I love to play in the snow. Kyle and I have had the opportunity to go up to Kelly Canyon a few times lately. Its been so awesome! Kyle tried snowboarding a few times when we were dating- he even bought a snowboard for himself (with my persistence :) But after we got married, he wasn't really interested in going snowboarding anymore. Every year I just went by myself or with my sister or friends. I had fun, but Kyle decided this year he wanted to come with me since my Dad had given us a few free lift passes. Kyle skied- (I think he's done with snowboarding :) haha But we really had a great time! I hope we can make it a usual thing we can do together now! Kyle is a really good skier. I have to thank my Mom and also my friend Becki for watching our kids so that we could go!

Here are a few pictures from one of our ski trips:

On the lift. This was Kyle's first time back on the lift in years!

Okay, its kind of funny, because I was just messing around taking pictures, and I happened to take a picture like this (the before-shot):

Then, here is an after-shot of my fat lip where Kyle had accidentally hit me in the face with his ski pole when he was getting off the lift. I'm just lucky it didn't knock my tooth out! haha

We've had a couple of good snow storms, and we went sledding again after this last one we had. It was a lot of fun! There was a lot of fresh snow so we were able to make our own tracks. However, since there was so much powder, we would slide down and get COVERED in snow! I don't remember every having such a cold snow covered face before!

Hailee had a lot more fun this time sledding since she knew what was going on, and falling off the sled and getting snow all over is just part of the fun.

Snow covered Hailee eating snow

It was hard to get a picture of Dallin, he was up and down so much! There were a couple of other little boys who came and joined us. Dallin was having a blast!

Our little Owen guy turned 6 months old this past week. I can't believe he's growing so fast! He's still such a joy and so stinkin cute!

Owen's brother and sister sure do love him a lot!

Trying to get some cute 6 month pictures of the little guy:

I just LOVE this little guy's eyes! :)

Brother and Sister want to join!

Dallin has really sensitive eyes when its bright and I'm trying to take his picture. He almost looks like he's crying in these pictures

I loved this picture of Owen checking out his big brother

Here are a few more random pictures:

Hailee was watching Curious George, and she decided she wanted to dress up like him and eat a banana. Cutie!

Owen hanging out in Dallin's coat

A Valentine's creation in Hailee's hair

Daddy and Owen taking a nap

Hailee taking a nap. haha!

Hailee and her cute little friend Ava playing dress up. Hailee loves to go over to her house to play because they have so many cute dress up clothes!

I just LOVE these pictures

I was doing school work on the computer one morning and Hailee had all of her jewelry out playing with it. I looked down to see she had created a little person out of her jewelry! That little girl is so creative! Its so cute! It looks just like one of her drawings!

Alright, so I've decided to post a few more pictures of things that I've been doing lately. These are pictures of me that other people have taken and posted on facebook.

I really like to go to Zumba. Some of my friends and I go to Zumba twice a week. We even did a performance thing a few weeks ago. Here we are in our bright lipstick! (Becki, Amy, me)

Kyle and I still go to orchestra every Saturday morning. This picture is actually from a few years ago, but someone had posted it on our Community Orchestra Facebook page. I love my fellow French Horn playing ladies! (Mary, Christy, me)

I have a great bunch of girl friends and we all got together a few weeks ago for a lunch because our friend Rachel (far right) lives in Utah now so she was up to visit. (Amy, me, Becki, Rachel- and not pictured holding the camera is Cindy)

Me and Dallin singing Karaoke on New Years Eve at Becki's house. We had so much fun! I know there are some scary videos of our fun Karaoke time floating around out there. Including one of Kyle! He and Becki's husband, Thad belted out a few fun songs! haha

 

January isn't that bad!

Its funny when people talk about how terrible and gloomy January is. I personally think January is a terrific month for many reasons! First of all, I love the snow, and all of the fun things you can do in it! The only thing I don't really like is driving in it, but its not too bad as long as I'm not in too big of a hurry to get there :)

The kids have done some really fun things out in the snow. It was sad that we really didn't get any snow last year at all, so it was great when we had a nice big snowstorm which dumped about 8 inches of snow and also gave the school a legit snow day! (Not just an icky cancellation like we had a few weeks ago because it was nearly -30 degrees below 0 outside!

 

Here are some pictures of the kids playing out in the snow

This picture is funny, because if you look closely, you can see they're squeezing their eyes shut. It was really bright outside facing me, so they were having a hard time keeping their eyes open so I told them it was fine if they wanted to close their eyes and smile for the camera.

Hailee and her cutesie pose

 Dallin on the sled trying to go down the little hill that Kyle made with the snow plow. (He wasn't too successful :)

Having fun! This reminds me a lot of playing outside with my brother in the Winter when I was little.

Kyle had the great idea of hooking up the sled to the lawn mower to pull the kids back and forth in front of our house. It was pretty funny. It went super slow, and it was hilarious seeing the looks on the neighbor's faces driving down the road in the middle of winter on a lawn mower with a sled attached behind it.

There is a great sledding place by our house. Everyone calls it "the pit". I took the kids there a few days ago in the afternoon for some sledding. They had a lot of fun! Its funny because Dallin is the adventurous type and was having fun even falling off of the sled. Hailee, on the other hand, wasn't too sure about her first experience sledding. She didn't realize that falling off of the sled is a big part of sledding :)

 Dallin went up and down the hill so many times- I can't believe how much energy that kid has!

I've also always had a special place in my heart for January, because it is my Birthday month :) I had a great 3rd 29th Birthday... haha. We went out to dinner at Texas Roadhouse that night. Here are a few pictures of my attempts of getting decent pictures of us. As you can see, I failed miserably. haha

At least Owen cooperated for me :)

 Hailee and I

 So all in all, January has been a great month :) Here are just a few more random pictures:
Here is Hailee the princess all dressed up in her jewelry. She's so funny. She loves to dress up, change her shoes, get her hair done, and play with jewelry. She is definitely all girl. I love it!
I actually have a picture of myself like this when I was her age.

 Our little Owen guy is getting so big! I love his little personality. He is such a mellow little guy and pretty easy to please. He's still a great sleeper. I love this age (5 months), and he's the cutest little thing! (I LOVE his HUGE eyes!)