2015 was a big year for us...a new baby, a new house, a new city. We recognize that we have been blessed immensely and are so grateful for our kids and our house and Justin's job and our families and the gospel and temple blessings and our health...I could go on and on. Life is full and happy. Here's how we spent the last week of 2015.
The girls in their new Sunday clothes. Molly is looking so grown up in this picture and looking at it makes me realize that she really is growing up and it's happening so fast!
I had a hard time getting a picture of Ivy without her wiggling all over but finally got this one after church, although she's missing her shoes at this point.
Stockton is not pictured because his new clothes had a mishap. After my parents left our house the day after Christmas I was just picking up and putting toys and clothes in their respective piles. I was also thinking about church the following day and getting clothes out for that when I realized I couldn't find Stocky's new clothes. Turns out they got left in the gift box. My parents took a load of boxes and wrapping paper to the big garbage bins by Weber State for us because our garbage was way too full and still almost a week out before garbage pick-up. Anyway, Stockton's new clothes got left in the gift box which got put in the dumpster. I called my mom and she and my dad drove back up to Weber State where my dad dumpster dived until he found Stockton's clothes. I will always check boxes before throwing them out!
Sunday night game of Yahtzee.
Ivy decided she is big enough to participate in the wrestling matches with daddy. I wish this picture wasn't so blurry.
Ivy is finding lots of fun new places to play.
The Monday after Christmas we went down to Provo/Orem. We had some exchanges to make and decided to make a day of it. Stockton really liked this John Stockton Jazz jersey-too bad they are $75-on sale.
We ended up being down there longer than we thought so we went out to dinner at Wingers. We rarely take the kids to a sit-down restaurant.
We let the kids sleep out in the front room one night with some of the new Christmas gifts...Molly slept in her hammock (I thought that sounded awful but she slept fine), Brynn slept in her canopy, and we let Stockton sleep in the playhouse.
We had a really great pediatric dentist in Spanish Fork but I was having no luck in finding a well-recommended dentist in Heber. So we decided to just go to Uncle Jeff. It's a bit of a drive but it's only twice a year so we can manage. Everyone was good except Molly who had one little cavity that Jeff fixed the following day.
We stayed overnight at my parents and Stockton sat down and played Scrabble Jr. with Grandma and Grandpa while we were there.
Ivy loves being pushed around in her car.
The kids made a big banner for our New Year's Eve party.
Our New Year's Eve was low-key, just the way we like it. For dinner I took the kids to the grocery store and told them they could pick out one thing each for dinner. Whatever they wanted. Molly chose taquitos, Stockton chose soft pretzels, and Brynn chose mini bagel pizzas. I picked bananas for some balance and Justin made seven layer bean dip.
Our tradition for the past several years has been to just have a game night and let the kids stay up as late as they want. Justin and I took turns playing the games while the other took care of Ivy until she went to bed. Brynn went first and picked a princess story card game.
Then Stockton picked Monopoly. That took a while!
Molly chose Yahtzee.
Back to Brynn. She picked Sleeping Queens.
Stockton picked Life. He kept picking the long games.
Molly picked Blink which is just a speed card game.
Then Brynn picked Sequence for Kids.
We stopped after that since the kids were getting pretty tired. Throughout the night we had watched Toy Story 2 and Aladdin and Minions and the three older kids were still up-even Brynn! They actually all made it to see the ball drop and then we tucked them in their beds. Good thing they are pretty good at sleeping in! It was a great night ringing in the new year. Happy 2016! Can't wait to see what's in store for our family this year!
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