First Quarter Random

We finished this "mud room nook" project in the laundry room and I LOVE it.

The kids listening to Grandpa Jamie tell stories when we saw him briefly in January.

Owen and Maris having a snack and being cute.

Our early riser!  Whitney was always up before Eric left for work this winter!  Until he started going at 6am in February. Then we missed him!

a quick getaway in Salt Lake as part of a work retreat.

The day I learned that Maris could use a gluestick :)  (at preschool)

Aunt Jenae visited since she is at BYU Idaho now!

One day the power went out right when we were about to watch a movie, so they watched somethingon the tablet, and this is how they ended up.  So adorable.

the park on a cold day.

I asked Eric to cut a piece of PVC pipe into 3 pieces for relay batons.  He eyed it for about 1 second, made his cuts, and the batons ended up IDENTICAL in length!  He's like "how's that for engineering skills!" It was so funny. 

That one time when the kids were hapily doing chores without being asked!  Whitney chooses to do her own laundry even though she's not 8 yet because she doesn't want to help sort everyone's.  Which is awesome for me!

And Katelyn loves to clean the bathroom, hooray!  And bonus, she thinks it's fun to let the little kids "help" her, which keeps them entertained for me!  It's the best thing ever.

FIrst rainstorm of the year that was worm enough to play in, and they were out there!

We were randomly invited to go with our neighbor to the fire station, it was awesome!  

Owen LOVES fire trucks!!

during "March Break" we went on our first bike ride/run on the river trail of the year, and fit it all in the van, yay!