Thanksgiving Point

We continued to take advantage of our Thanksgiving Point membership in the winter where we could play inside from the cold. We took Sam with us once too.  Here are some pictures from our adventures.

Unfortunately Gracie is not always happy, but her sad face is pretty adorable.

The water area is always a hit. These two were soaked! At one point Alden had the water spraying right down the front of him.

Good thing there is a wind simulator (or blow dryer) on your way out :)

Gracie loved the ball pit. 

And on this trip we actually played in the green screen room. I don't think that has ever happened before. It was really fun to watch Alden and Sam dress up and watch themselves on the TV.

We also went as a family a couple of times right after work so that people could walk through the house. It was nice to have a quiet place to go and the kids even let us get some decent picture of them.

This maybe the picture I am most proud of, it was taken with self timer and we got it on the first try!

SNOW!!

We got a good amount of snow this January and had a good time playing in it.  These pictures were taken at Grandma and Grandpa Peterson's one afternoon after Sunday dinner.  

Alden thought rolling the snowballs was pretty awesome because they got so big.

In the end he loved his snowman. We are lucky grandma has a snowman kit so that our snowman could have such a great outfit. 

  

I had to get in on the photo action too. Love spending time with this kid!

January 2016

January was a busy month for our family. We put the house up for sale on January 4 and for 10 long days we stressed about keeping the house clean, having somewhere to go at a moments notice for a showing to come through, and if we would get enough money out of the house to be able to afford the new one we were already under contract for.  As mentioned earlier we went under contract in 10 days. We were incredibly blessed with this and our testimonies were strengthened to know that Heavenly Father is aware of us and what is best for us. 

Through all of this though we did have a lot of fun in January. Here are a few short stories that have enough detail to get their very own posts.

Gracie got her fingernails painted for the first time. Unfortunately this is about as long as it lasted. She rubbed and sucked it all off pretty soon after this, but it was fun to do girly things with her while it lasted.

This next picture is how we keep Gracie entertained in church. She is so busy that sitting still in Sunday School is a challenge, but she loves to take selfies so we have a few of these gems to enjoy!

Just a cute one of the little girl at a Sunday dinner in Springville.

Alden wanted to roast marshmallows one night, but in January we were not about to find a place to make a fire, so the gas stove top made do. Unfortunately after all of the build up he did not actually want to roast marshmallows for too long because it was hot on his hands :)

Here is a little view of his fashion sense at age 4.  Love it!

And finally Grandma and Grandpa Peterson cleaned out some things and found this box of cool toys from when we were kids. Alden found the roller skates and decided he was brave enough to try them.  He did pretty good (way better than I did as kid when I cut my chin open on them)