Catching Up January

At dinner one night Bryan pulls out the camera to capture the cute messiness and Aaron decides to bust out his first cheesy smile. Covered in mashed potatoes, gravy, meatloaf and ketchup he squintches up his eyes, sticks out his lower jaw and says "eees." We all laughed for a while at this one.

One of Aaron's many places in the

house to hang out. This cute face lives in a world where most people are a lot taller than he is.

Bryan is on a board game kick. He bought 8 new board games in one month. Here are some of our new titles: Monopoly Jr (as featured), Pictionary Jr, Quirkle, some art picture memory game, and Survive. He also bought us Kinect last December and we've had fun. Turns out I am a really good boxer and Bryan rocks the javelin throw.

Bryan dreamed up and built himself a wood shop in our garage. His grungy man mobile, 1988 land cruiser, won't fit in our garage anymore after they welded the roof rack. So Bryan is using 1/2 of a garage space for all his manly cutting tools. He is hoping to build us a new entertainment center and the girls' bunk beds sometime soon.

Bryan took the girlies skiing in January. It was Emily's second time, Ashley's first time. They went to Brighton on a Thursday and were the only two kids in ski school. Both had a set of hand and toe warmers as well as warmers in their pants' pockets.

Bryan did his work in the lodge and was on stand-by in case either girl bailed out. They skied all morning and had a blast. We were impressed with their kid program there.

Ashley's first talk in Primary was in January. Her topic was about how the scriptures help me learn about Jesus' words. We practiced at home a couple of times and she did a great job at the microphone. We talked about 3 parables- the prodigal son, Mary and Martha and the good Samaritan and how they each taught us about Jesus.