a new year! – -Jan. 2nd –  we had a day at home before getting back to school and work since we came home a day early to beat the storm. We got to enjoy a lazy day with lots of new Christmas gifts.

Ben replaced all of the lights on the arcades!

I love Rose’s desire to learn. She likes school a lot. And she likes to play a lot.

 

This is my new Menu book! The kids helped make it and now they can help choose what I should make for dinner since that is still easily the worst part of the day 🙂

And we were just so excited to be back in Utah with our FREE grocery bags!

The storm did come and the Green Bay Packers did win!:

 

We played inside with new toys and Ben continued to work on arcades since it was such a cold week.

Raymond has become a mush head – he loves Minecraft and Skylanders!

 

And they all love shoveling the snow:

Millie is always trying to be a big helper. She helps get band aids and helps with the dishes and :

Tiago was getting addicted to the phone so we took that away – he threw some good fits but seems to be over it.

 

Cousins of all ages – 1 through 6!

Our newest arcade – Donkey Kong Jr.  – it’s really hard but starting to get fun. It only works some of the time so Ben still has some work to do there.

 

On Saturday the 7th Cali got baptized so Shannon hung out with us. Sean and Jana, Joel and Megan were all too sick to hangout 🙁

Kelsey and Shae finally came back from CA and we got to go see baby Dagny get blessed!

Ray was so excited to get his first CTR ring at church 🙂

And the Packers won again!

We watched the Hancock kids for a couple of days! and bought another arcade in CA

I drove the car with 0 miles left in the gas tank!

Practicing braiding hair

chillin with this guy

Ben at work 🙂 transitioning to the new Dell ownership.

Tiago LOVES bouncy balls! really any ball. He gets so excited!

and this is my dinner crew during wrestling season. just a few more weeks till we can eat dinner again as a family:

I finally had arbitration about my car accident from over 2 years ago! I don’t have much faith in our justice system but I’m glad to be done with that and still don’t know the outcome.

Friday afternoon wrestling tournament:

and then they left early Saturday morning for another meet. I stayed home and played Sorry with the kids. They went out for lunch so we did too:

And then on Sunday, Green Bay won again!!

That monday the 16th was Martin Luther King day so we went skating! Luckily Kelsey was able to come cause these kids needed help and lots of taking skates off and on. But they really did love it.

 

and they loved when Ben taught them how to play Karuba that night after work!

Tuesday the 17th we babysat Bennett:

and the next day I laughed at Ago all morning and we rode bikes with gentry and Ellie. Tiago thought he needed to drive Millie’s car! those two behind the wheel is a BAD combination.

The Kindergarten Girls:

And my nap time crew: except Millie won’t nap:

Tiago is still obsessed with Quincy and it’s really cute:

And on Wednesday the 19th Ben and Benji prepped their burritos for the Klondike Campout:

It’s been a good January. We’ve had a barf bug but no one was too sick. We have watched too much tv staying inside out of the cold. But we had a few fun adventures and are trying to make the most of each day. Trying to enjoy the journey even when the journey is homework, meal time, clean, wrestling and repeat. We love these kids and want to enjoy them each and every day while we can.