the murrays: January faves

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

January faves

First we have to rewind- somehow I missed this picture from Thanksgiving, and Lydia did play with Caleb and Whitney several times, so I wanted to document that she's making the transition to the big kids! Cute.

Also here is our new fridge!! Love it!!

And Super Owen in his sweet pj's from Grandma and Grandpa Murray- he loves them and never wants to take them off!

Okay now onto our

January Faves

Our favorite pastimes of 2014 so far!

1. Sledding

Here are Kate and Owen all ready to go- Owen refusing to wear snow pants as usual. Luckily it's been like 20* warmer in january than is was in December, so we let him go without them.

We spent a bunch of time on the little hill because the girls can get up it so much easier! But they do love going down the big hill with Eric.

To our delight, Owen decided that he loves sledding after we forced him to try it. He cried that first time down, and then asked to go again and again. :)

This last time it was a gorgeous sunny day- and we found a big patch of grass to relax on!

2. Legos, legos, and more legos!

Each of the kids got multiple Lego sets for Christmas, and it was been so much fun to build them!

There have been many hours of this at our house since Christmas: Lego heaven!

My mom also gave us a big set of my old legos, which Owen has kind of claimed. he loves playing with them even though he's not very good at it because they are so tiny!

3. Our annual BYU Basketball Game

We usually go to one every year, whereas football has only been about every-other year. We lucked out and picked a great game to see, BYU dominated Loyola Marymount even though they were supposed to be pretty evenly matched. So that was fun to see. We knew Owen was going to love it, but to our happy surprise, Katelyn really enjoyed it as well! When BYU started to pull ahead Kate had a lot of fun telling us "now we're 13 points ahead" "now we're winning by 18!!!" it was awesome. We got to stay for the whole game since we had 4 out of 5 happy campers, yay! (Whitney just played on Eric's phone for most of the second half.) Oh and Derek sat by us, that was fun.

So when Owen and I went to buy the tickets a few days beforehand, we got them and started to leave and Owen burst into tears-"I want to go to the BYU Basketball game!" and it took me a while to calm him down and explain that there wasn't a game that day, no one was there to play or cheer! So then when he saw the real thing he was pretty mesmerized for a while- all the people and the music and the cheering! He LOVED seeing Cosmo and singing the fight song, even though it was a little fast for him! He is fully indoctrinated to love BYU and it is adorable. Also he got good at shouting things like "Go defense" 'Go Cougars" and "Make noise!"(since Cosmo held up that sign a couple of times)