Surviving January

A few things we've been up to this month....trying to occupy these long blah days!

Halle started piano lessons at the beginning of January. She's been wanting to for so long, but just took me a while to figure out a teacher. She loves it and is very eager to practice. Thankfully she seems to have her father's talent for music, rather than mine!
We had our fun cousin lunch at my Grandma's house and Avery was loving all the girls that were there to play with. Aidan happened to be the only boy this time and he wasn't too thrilled about that.

Caitlyn, Annie, Avery & Haylie

A HUGE event has taken place in our home. Avery has finally started playing with toys. She will actually sit down and play for longer than 4 seconds. This particular day we set up the whole Little People town and she played for almost 2 hours. Don't get me wrong she still gets into plenty of trouble, but I get a few breaks of it now throughout the day.

{Remember when you could sit like this and it didn't hurt...those were the days!}

Littlest Pet Shops are her other favorite thing.

The kids rockin out to Band Hero at Grandma & Grandpa's house.

My favorite thing this month was our VERY spontaneous getaway to St. George. A couple weeks ago Halle had Friday and the following Monday off school so Friday morning we decided to get out of town and an hour later we were on the road. The kids were thrilled to be able to play outside and actually breath the air.

We met up with our friends that live in Cedar City and spent the afternoon together. We played at Jumpin' Jacks and then went for pizza after.

Aidan and Halle had a great time playing on all the blowup slides and bounce houses.

Odessa, Halle & Aidan

Avery on the other hand was not so keen on the idea of getting in a big blow up house to jump. This is as close as she would get to them.

She thoroughly enjoyed these riding machines better...and I didn't even put quarters in them to turn them on.

She finally bummed a ride with some other kids whose parents were nice enough to spare the 50 cents.

Jenny, Adam, baby Addison and Tucker

We spent a whole afternoon hiking around the red rocks and enjoying the nice weather.

And of course swimming is always a must.

It was such a fun trip and nice to be away together.

And now the month is all but over and I feel like spring isn't SO far off. Busy life keeps us moving and I'm sure it will be here before we now it. I hope so any way.