January in review....

January was a challenging month in our house (more about that in a future post). For the most part, we stayed inside and hung out together. Not only was it a lot of fun, it also kept us nice and toasty warm since most of the month we were in the negative digits outside! I went to a YW retreat in Island Park and it was -18 while we were there. I thought that was bad, but the Sunday we got back it was -25 in Idaho Falls. That's really cold, in case you were wondering....

Jason has been extremely busy with school and work. He is gone all day, poor guy. Weekends are spent at the library, and for the most part we have part of Sunday with him and Monday nights for FHE. I'm grateful he works so hard for his little family, but we sure do miss his face. 

Sam's Club! One of our favorite places to go. :)

Brooklyn's first pigtails. Super cute little girl!

Brooklyn LOVES the cat. She will crawl and follow it all over the house, squealing and laughing the whole time.

Brooklyn loves seeing herself in the ipad camera. These are a few pictures of her looking at herself.

Carson's favorite shirt - his MONSTER Shirt! It has a cape on the back which means he can fly!

This is how Carson helps feed Brooklyn her snacks - dump out the entire bag of yogurt bites.

 Not only do my kids love their baths, but they love their bath toys. Brooklyn loves the little foam circles with letters on them and she will put them in her mouth and just leave them there. It's so funny and cute. She cracks me up!

 My kids always feel the need to get up super early no matter what time they go to bed. Last Sunday, they felt the need to get up at 5:30am after I had gotten up with them both several times during the night. Jason had been at the library all day on Saturday (8am-3am on Sunday) so we went into the living room to play. If they weren't so dang cute I would probably be a lot crankier with them. :)

 We had a lot of snow in January. A lot!! One weekend most of it melted and then we woke up Monday morning to about 8-10 inches of snow. The wind had created quite the snow drift back by the garages....up to my waist. It took Jason and I an hour to dig out a path for him to get to work. Carson wanted to help shovel too, so I told him he could take care of the front porch. He is so cute in his snow gear.

 We had a follow-up appointment for Brooklyn's ears with Dr. Hanks. Carson is so used to going to the ear doctor that he climbed right up in the chair to wait. Brooklyn's ears look great and she hasn't had an ear infection since her tubes. Yay!!

 The kids have had a blast playing with their toys from Christmas. Brooklyn loves her Jungle toy and tries to pull herself up on it. Once she stands up she lets go because she thinks she is ready to walk. Silly girl needs to slow down! Carson loves his car toy and has a lot of fun sending any toy down the spirals that will fit. They are getting to the point where they play really well together. Brooklyn loves to follow Carson and play with whatever he has, and Carson likes to bring her toys and show her how to use them. I love it. Mostly, I love them.