I do appreciate the winter for all the creativity it inspires in my kids while they are stuck indoors. Liv is constantly playing princess and lines of princesses like so can often be found in various corners around the room.
She also enjoys her princess palace pets and has taken a real interest in her baby dolls. She very realistically pretends that she is them mother and give them naps and loads them up in carseats everywhere we go. She gets them all dressed every morning and changes them into pajamas at night. It makes getting out of the house take so much longer though because she not only has to get herself ready but all 3 of her babies as well (that is something that I understand all too well).
Camden is still in love with the Jake and the Neverland Pirates ship Babi and Papou gave him for his birthday. He is constantly monopolizing it and rarely includes Carter and Liv in his play. He also loves watching Jake and the Neverland Pirates episodes on tv and playing with his ship at the same time.
Carter has been enthralled with the magnets that Nay and Benazir gave the boys for Christmas. He carries them all around the house and seems to be able to play for hours and days on end without tiring of them.
We've had the pleasure of having my friend Julie's little Martha over quite a bit this winter to play. The boys just love her. This day Carter decided to brush her hair. With beautiful blond curls like she has I totally understand why he felt the need.
Liv and Camden keep clinking their glasses to give each other cheers one day at lunch. Wonder where they picked that up from.
Carter and Liv snuggling on the coach together:
The two boys fell asleep all cuddled like so one afternoon:
I worked on Martin Luther King Day, but Derek and my babysitter had the day off. He filled the day by taking the kids to payless to buy them all sneakers. Then, we borrowed the church key from a friend and took them to the church gym and made them run basketball drills. The kids all loved it. Then, I met them at the Carls Jr Playplace for lunch. Then, I went back to work and they kids and Derek all took a nap on the downstairs couch. Derek says all 3 kids fells asleep on top of him.
Lily had us over for dinner one evening and Liv wanted me to take a picture of her holding their baby Ammon.
I took the boys with me to jiffy lube to get the oil changed. They really enjoyed that the movie Cars was playing and that they had popcorn they could eat.
We had Derek's family over for dinner one night after they had spent the day helping Steven and Diane move into their new house. Uncle Jon wrapped the 3 Marshall kids into a Marshall burrito and gave them to Derek to eat for dinner.
The kids all decided they wanted to switch from gymnastics to ice skating. Liv is doing amazing. She whips around the ice so fast all by herself.
The boys, while so excited to take lessons and be allowed on the ice, last just a few minutes out there falling before they are crawling off the ice trying to find me and refusing to go back out. If I go out with them they do quite well, but I don't think they both anticipated how much falling is involved in learning to ice skate.
They had a fun ward dinner night where they broke people into groups of about 8. We hosted 8 people at our house and then afterwards everyone went over to the church for dessert. A good way to get to know people.
Since our kids diet seems at times to entirely consist of quesadillas, chicken nuggets and ramen noodle soup and they all seem to not be getting enough sleep lately, and spend way too much time watching movies or playing on tablets I decided to do a FHE lesson on how to take care of our bodies. We talked about the food plate and the need to eat lots of fruits and veggies and get enough sleep and exercise. Then afterwards we all made rainbow fruit kabobs together. The kids loved it and maybe seem to be making a more valiant effort to live healthier lives.
Derek heard about the Midway rotarty club hosting a reduced price night at the solders hollow tubing facility. So, we took advantage and we all bundled up to enjoy a night of tubing. It was fun, but they kids got cold quick. On the way down the hills we'd get this ice spray in our face and none of them liked that very much. Their favorite part was actually riding the tubes up the hill and then the hot chocolate at the end.
Babi and Papou came in to watch the kids while we went on our Barbados trip and we all went on an open house tour of the new Provo City Center Temple.
The building was beautiful probably my favorite part was this huge reclaimed stained glass image of Jesus Christ holding sheep that dates back to the early 1900s that came from a Presbyterian church
in New York that was demolished. 
This weekend, Liv got invited to a little girls movie night at the Oler house. They watched My Little Pony and apparently had a blast. Love this picture of all these girls crowded in together. Such a fun group.
Last night, the Thorsteds invited us to join their family for a Chinese New Year celebration dinner. Actually Chinese New Year fell on the same Sunday as super bowl Sunday. We had the Thorsteds and Mayletts over for too much foot (and too much football in my opinion), so the Chinese New Year Celebration was post poned. It was fun, we ate Chinese food and then I brought sparklers for all the kids to light in a fantastic bon fire Tyler's step dad through together in the back yard. Carter was in heaven in fact that is a direct quote from his mouth, "I in heaven," as he stood for a good hour holding a stick in the fire.
I occasionally work all day Monday. And, when I do, I drop the boys off at Carolyn's, then Liv at school, then go to work for a few hours, then pick Liv up on my lunch break, drop her back at Carolyn's and then finish my afternoon work shift before picking all the kids up. Lately, Liv has convinced me that on those days we should have a girl lunch date just the two of us. Today, she specifically requested miso soup for lunch which meant sushi! I was overjoyed to see that she loved the sushi rolls just as much as me. She would peel the sashimi right off the top, dip it in soy sauce and take bite. Sushi is my absolute favorite thing to eat, so this give me all kinds of bright hope for the future and many more years of mother/daughter sushi dates to come.
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