Happy new year!

With the kids out of school all week we stayed busy doing all sorts of fun things.  Danny had to work all week, but he took the afternoon off on Monday.

So On New Years Eve we headed up the Alta to go skiing.  It was a beautiful, sunny day - perfect day to spend in the mountains.  Taylor and Aunt Natalie took off and did some big runs. While Danny and I stayed with Emily and Isaac on the bunny hill. 

The kids did great, they were happy to work on their skiing.  They both really improved and seemed to have fun too!
 By about 4pm it was getting freezing cold and everyone got chilled. So we headed to the Lodge to get some cocoa and warm up. We met up with Brett and his kids too.
It was a successful day of skiing.

After skiing we headed home to celebrate New Years Eve!
We had a picnic dinner in the basement while watching a movie.  The kids thought it was fun.  By 9:30 everyone was tired and wanted to go to bed, so it was an early New Years night.
Happy New Years!!
On New Years day we hung out at home all day, and then went to a movie in the afternoon.  We saw "Chasing Mavericks"- it was  good movie, that everyone liked.

One day while running errands we stopped to get donuts at Banbury Cross Donuts.  Lizzie loved her donut, she devoured it!

On Wednesday we headed to Jump Around Utah with some friends.  The kids had a blast jumping, running, and climbing.  They played hard and it wore them out! 
The weather has been ridiculously cold lately.  The temperature is about 25 degrees for the high! Brrrrrrrrrrrrr. 
 I am so tired of being cold!





Another day we went to the Gateway Childrens Museum downtown.  We got a membership there and the kids had tons of fun! Lizzie especially had a blast, she loved shopping at the grocery store and playing in the house.
We love that museum.

This little girl is such a diva! She insists on wearing sunglasses in the car and then she demands to listen to "Paradise" by Coldplay.  It's funny and really annoying at the same time!  She is such a stinker! But we all adore her so much.

We got a piano this week too!
It was given to us by Goofy Grandma and Grandpa!  We were so excited to get a piano- now to start looking for a piano teacher.
Thank you so much!!

We ended our fun week by going swimming on Friday. 
The kids love to swim, and Isaac even enjoys it now.
We had a fun time swimming and then headed home for Lizzie to nap.  The worst part was going outside, in the 14 degree weather with wet hair.
When will it be spring?

Emily mastered the water slide this time. She has always been nervous about going down by herself, but now she has no fear at all!  Way to go Emily!  Lizzie was a little fearless too-she likes to jump in off the side into my arms, repeatedly!

The kids went back to school today, which was a little sad.  It's good to be back on a schedule,  but we had a great couple of weeks during Christmas Break! 
I think 2013 will be a fabulous year!