January

I went snowshoeing with my parents and sister (and salomon) on New Years Day. Brad had left to go on a preseason trip (yes, he missed our anniversary on the 31st, but don't worry, we still celebrated it later ;)) and Brody went skiing in Salt Lake with some friends. We went up to Temple Fork in Logan Canyon. It was so pretty up there and we had such a great time together. 

 I went to Jett's birthday party even though Brad was still in Texas. Kelsey had it decorated so cute and everything was airplane themed. We had dinner (in to-go boxes like you get on airplanes), then made paper airplanes and had a contest with them. Then Jett opened presents and had cake and then we played the last game- we were on two teams and one person from each team had to run a suitcase to the other side of the room and pack/unpack the suitcase and then bring it back to the next person. It was a fun party and I can't believe sweet Jett is already one! 

To celebrate our anniversary, we went down to St George for the weekend. On Friday, we went to dinner at the pasta factory, went shopping and spent the night in a hotel. Then on Saturday, Brad was in a softball tournament with other Vivint guys. It lasted all day... literally! We got there at about 9 and they played 2 games to determine the seeding for the tournament. We had lunch, and then the real tournament began. It was a double elimination so as soon as they lost two games, they were out. Brad and his team ended up playing 4 or 5 games plus the two from earlier, so they were pretty worn out by the end of the day. We stayed to watch our friends play a few more games and then headed to Heather and Jordans to spend the night. I absolutely loved meeting my adorable niece, Coralyn and held her basically the entire time we were there! ;) We hung out with them all day on Sunday, had dinner and watched Frozen. We got up early on Monday to head home. 

Our bunco party this month was at Mindi's beautiful home. It was Hawaiian themed and so we had Hawaiian Haystacks. She even got the prizes from Hawaii! (They went on vacation just a few weeks before) I brought a salad and Krista made some yummy drinks. It was a fun night!

We babysat the Hess' for 5 days. On Saturday they got to go to a princess party that they were so excited about! We took them to our church on Sunday, and then Brad left to go spend the night at his cabin with his dad, brother and some family friends. 

On Sunday night, I took the kids with me to my parents and we had a little taste testing party. We had different kinds of ranch, string cheese, tomatoes, cucumbers, spaghetti, spaghetti sauce, butter/margarine, bread, milk and dark sodas. I honestly couldn't tell the difference on most of them. I thought it was interesting because the soda that we all thought was gross was diet coke- and thats the one we all thought we liked the best! The five kids had fun playing together, and they even put on a little musical show for us! 

Brad really enjoyed going snowmobiling at his cabin on Monday.

Or new nephew, Carter James, was born on January 17th. He is Ben and Katie's second little boy. I was so happy to go and see him, he is just the cutest!! Braxten seems so big now that little Carter is around but it was so fun to see how much Braxten loves him.