We finished out our trip to Utah at the beginning of January.
( Little Charlie threw up on the way there so we're avoiding the combination of Burger King and watching movies from now on - no beuno )
We had Christmas present excitement all over again because Granparents are fun like that.
The Rich side had a DELICIOUS dinner with just the adults.
(I'm still dreaming of the tempura shrimp and veggies...which Bobby and I have since attempted at home-with pretty tasty results thank goodness!)
I got a much needed haircut along with some much needed catch up time with old friends while Bobby went skiing with his Bro-skii's.
Bobby took the boys sledding with Honey and some cousins.
They had such a good time.
We blessed Lucy in my parent's ward.
She was a peaceful angel for the blessing {yay!} but isn't looking so peaceful at this point ;)
She was ready to be done with pictures poor girl.
Lots of family support.
We love you Lucy Caroline Rich!
Honey bought the cutest little Christmas outfits for the 3 little newbie baby girls.
Back home:
These are some of Duncan's BIG school projects and an FHE drawing of the Nativity.
His Thanksgiving project says: "I am thankful for Jesus and family."
Remember how I thought Lucy and Charlie looked a lot alike with their eyes closed?
Here they are at about the same age, cute little lambs.
Charlie with some of his knick-knacks:
a harmonica and a pencil eraser.
She's a heart-melter for sure.
Lucy, in her camouflage outfit :), with her big brother Duncan.
We started doing piano lessons around here.
My friend's mom, who was my teacher growing up, gave me lots of advice and help with how to go about teaching Duncan.
Charlie wanted lessons too so I got some piano games for the iPad and whoever wasn't having their lesson got to play with the piano apps.
Lucy got a bad cold which got passed around to all of us and we haven't been back on the piano lesson train. Hopefully we'll board it again soon!
Duncan tied his shoes all by himself...woot woot!
I really don't like selfies but a mom's gotta do what a mom's gotta do if she's going to have evidence she was actually there for things. :)
We played with Tangrams while Bobby was at Young Mens.
The Saturday Store
We made up a point earning chart and at the end of the month these boys got to use their points to buy things in the Saturday Store. It was fun and the boys LOVED it but we need to rearrange the earning chart a bit and make some tweaks.
No quotes for this month.
I do have some random quotes that I wrote down on the quote board that are from listening to some Mormon Channel interviews:
"Buy experiences, not things"
"Character, Covenants, and Relationships-the only things we will take back with us when we die. That's where we want to spend our time."
Good things to remember.
For the record also, we've switched to 8:30 am church!
I was really nervous about how that would pan out with a newborn and all but it has been awesome!
The morning is always crazy and we're always just a few minutes late...but from there, the rest of the day (and there's a lot of it!) is truly a 'DELIGHT'!
When we had 1:30 pm church we spent the whole morning preparing for lessons, trying to get kids dressed - TWICE, etc. Then, by the time we got home it was dinnertime, a bit of Skype-ing and then bedtime.
Now, if we can just get up a half hour earlier so we aren't always the last ones to sit down. ;)
