January is always a tough month for me. The excitement of the holidays is over, there's tons of snow, it's freezing and the days are short. This year was no exception. We did manage to get ourselves out of the house a little bit and have some fun though!
Every year on New Year's Day we switch the boys' beds. This year they agreed to not switch. Weston likes the top and Davin likes the bottom. I still washed all the bedding and had them do a full scale bedroom clean up. I am always amazed at how much random stuff and trash they pull out of the their room. Sigh. They did an awesome job though and were good about getting rid of stuff. Their room looked SO good! For about a week. Haha.
That first Sunday in January Beckett went into the Sunbeam class in primary! I can't believe I'm done having kids in nursery. Beckett did awesome and loves being in primary. :) He is lucky and has fantastic teachers and his friend, Lexi in his class. The other kids all moved up a primary class too. I now have two kids in senior primary and two in junior!
I finally got to have a reunion with Melanie! She and her little family spent two weeks at Mom and Dad's house over the holidays. I sure missed her! Plus she brought me a whole bunch of stuff from home! One of the things she brought was my Samantha American Girl doll and a little suitcase full of her clothes and accessories. I had a fun, nostalgic afternoon showing Talia my doll and her stuff.
One afternoon the kids were begging me to take them to the soccer pit to sled, but the snow was almost melted! We still managed to slide down the hill. Weston practiced riding the snow skate that Mel and Brad gave him. It's pretty awesome and he is getting good! It was perfect timing too since Weston had a ski/snowboarding field trip the next week and he felt more prepared to snowboard for the first time. Everyone else went on the sled.
January meant the beginning of Jr. Jazz basketball for Weston! He had a fun team and a good season learning and improving. I had to laugh when at one of his first games he was guarding this huge kid. He did his best and had fun anyway.
The Wilson's, some of our good friends from Kearns, started a new business making wooden bow ties. They had an open house so we took the fam up and checked out the operation. The kids had fun playing and dressing up for the photo booth. They also got to make a bow tie craft and eat mustache cookies! Weston decided he wanted a bow tie for his birthday so he picked on out and we ordered it for him.
Our ward had our Great to be 8 program in January where the kids who are turning eight this year learn about baptism, activity days, and cub scouts. Davin was so excited it was his year to go. I made these cute little posters about each kid too. At the end they had donuts and chocolate milk and guessed who was who on the posters. It was a fun night and I'm so excited for my cute Davin to turn 8 this year!
We finally made it to one of the kids' school PTA sponsored free skate nights. They do them once a quarter. It was really fun. Lots of neighbor friends were there and the kids were all anxious to try out their new Christmas scooters for real. They had a blast. I was surprised how much Beckett liked it. He scootered for two hours straight!
I took the little ones on a mall outing one morning. We hadn't played at the dino playground there in forever. They were so good and had so much fun! Beckett was finally big enough to climb on everything and do the blue slide.
We got plenty of snow in January and one Saturday the Elder's Quorum had a family sledding activity at the soccer pit near our house. We all had fun sledding with friends and taking turns getting pulled on the tubes by a four wheeler! Gotta make the best of the winter weather!
Seriously how cute is my Davin in his winter gear?!?
I taught joy school in January and got to do the letter P! We had so much fun making popcorn and playing potato heads! It was by far my favorite letter so far. Joy school has been such a great thing for Beckett. He loves his preschool friends and going to their houses most weeks. I love it too.
We went on a couple fun BYU outings in January. We all (except Weston) went to a BYU gymnastics meet one Friday night. The kids loved the freedom of climbing around the bleachers. I wished I could have paid a little more attention to the meet and that we could have stayed until the end to watch BYU do the floor, but the kids were all pretty tired and done by 8:30. I love to watch gymnastics! I also took Talia and Beckett to the Bean Museum one morning. The last time we went the fun play area was being renovated, so we were excited to come back when it was open!
Hanging around the house fun! I love that my new house plant got flowers in January! The pretty bright blossoms brightened my days.
I also stayed nice and cozy in my LuLaRoe leggings. They are my new go-to stay at home mom outfit. Me curled up in leggings reading a book is pretty much my ideal winter afternoon!
I bought myself fun, cozy pajamas on clearance at Sam's Club and they are the best! I had to send my mom and sisters a PJ selfie and mourn that we couldn't have a sleepover. Haha. I also got my hair done by a new person. She lives in my neighborhood and has a little basement salon. It was perfect and affordable!
I also managed to squeeze in a fun girls night dinner at Brio for my friend, Heather's birthday!
