first few weeks of January

New Years Day-

We were excited that the Browns decided to come to Utah for a short little visit after Christmas. We got to spend some time with them and the rest of the Goodrich clan on New Years Day. April had prepared some fun little minute-it-to-win-it type games.

We gathered for a family picture, which is now already outdated.

Top row: Me, Brynn, Justin, Jake, Matt, Riley, Camille, Aaron, Grayson; Middle row: Eric, Heidi, Andrew, Evie, Tiana, Lizzy, Molly Rachelle, Sam; Bottom row: Brett, Luke, April, Riley, Cameron, Stockton, Gene

This is a sweet picture of Rachelle talking to Molly.

photo credit to Eric

The kids in their new Sunday clothes.

Stockton randomly asks me to take his picture. This is the picture he drew for the cat. (ciitey=kitty)

I was a mom helper in Stockton's class when he earned his math wings. They also got to play toilet tag with Mr. Pitcher, the principal.

I'm trying to encourage Molly to be more independent around here so one morning I put her in charge of bathing Brynn, along with getting her dressed and combing her hair. She did a pretty good job, although admits that she needs a little bit of help in the hair department. She was pretty proud of herself, and rightfully so.

Our last outing as a family of 5 was to dinner at Applebee's. We don't take the kids to sit-down restaurants very often but Justin had a gift card from work and we didn't know when else we would use it. Since it was a special occasion, we even ordered a dessert to share and the kids loved that.

The kids must be getting a little bit older and more mature because they actually ate their food and stayed in their seats. It was a successful family outing!

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