January 2014

So here we are at January 2014.  What a long cold, snowy winter it was.  But all that snow makes for lots of good snowmen and yummy hot chocolate.  We have the largest driveway in the neighborhood and boy did we all get our muscles from shoveling it.   Not to mention we have several elderly neighbors so that makes for more shoveling.  It's all good for the boys though.  They need to learn to work hard.  Luckily some of our neighbors took pity on us during the storms that dumped feet of snow on us and helped us out with their snow blowers.  We have a great neighborhood.  Someday we may have to buy a snow blower but for now we'll just keep building these boys muscles.

So on New Years Day I attempted to get a family photo.  As you can see it went over well.  Some days it's just not going to happen.

This is as good as we got and we all look pretty pathetic

We drove down to Philly on New Years Days to see the historic sites.  It had been years since we'd been there so the kids didn't remember.

Liberty Bell

Independence Hall.  Doesn't Daniel look comfortable? 

Working on their requirements for the Junior Ranger Program

Getting sworn in as Junior Rangers.  Michael was so exctied about this.

Badges and trading cards

Anne lost her other front tooth.  Besides babyhood, I think kids are the cutest when they loose their front teeth.

Primary Pajama Pancake breakfast with the bishop.  Our ward is so great and does so many things to keep
everyone close.

This is in here just so we don't forget Jacob and his weird eating habits.  He is a very stubborn kid and there is no way you can get him to eat something he doesn't want to.  He likes cheese though...shredded.  So we'll sit down to a nice dinner and he'll go get the cheese shredder and a block of cheese and shred it up for dinner.  Seriously, he is a hilarious child!!!

One day I found the boys doing this.  Sports heads they called it.   I laughed so hard and took a video of them.  In the video Jacob is crying the whole time cause he realizes he can't get himself out and the boys are being so goofy.  It's so funny.

We would have playgroup at the church gym during the winter.  It was great for letting the kids run around when it was so cold outside.  We even go over to the church on weekend evenings sometimes and play kickball or basketball.

Mini snowman

Jacob opening a very belated Christmas gift.  A little remote control car. It was fun to find it hiding under the tree when we took it down.

How many binkies does a baby need??

Cub Scout play, "The Three Little Pigs"

The rapt audience

Anne is a good little helped in the kitchen.  Here she is making Tex Mex

Daniel is my "get into everything" child.  Never had one like this but he is into everything.  He loves
to stack the cans and knock them over.  

Twin Teethless

Playing checkers