January

 Man, January was busy! Besides our two birthday boys, we still had lots of fun this month! We had Chase’s first robotics tournament. Ben and Chase have spent hours and hours building this robot and they did so well at the competition! And somehow, the only pictures I took were of Lila and Megan.

January was so cold, we couldn’t play outside hardly at all. And although we felt a little stir crazy at times, we found a lot of ways to be creative inside.

I argued with Davis every single day about if he could wear shorts. He had to wear long pants to school, but promptly came home and changed into shorts every day. One day he even snuck shorts to school and changed in the bathroom! It was actively snowing that day and my kindergartener came home in shorts- super proud of himself for finding a loophole!

We babysat Buddy one weekend and then Buddy started coming back regularly during the day. The kids all love him so much!

Poor Davis got super sick- high fever and he was just miserable. He loved having Buddy sit next to him. Every time we’d take Buddy outside Davis was respond “hey! Bring my buddy back!” Even when he was his sickest, he’d keep one hand stretched out to pet Buddy.

Hudson is just so handsome and so stylish! Nate and Halie gave him this jacket for Christmas and he looks so cute sporting it to church each Sunday. 

Chase got to go on his first Young Men’s camp out! It was a winter camp out in cabins with lots of sledding and he had the time of his life! He has been so excited to join this program and loved bonding with all the older boys!

We had the Smith girls sleepover! We did a babysitting swap and took their girls one night earlier in the month and then they took ours later. Putting Lila and Rose to sleep in the same room felt like a huge accomplishment! I didn’t take any other pictures all weekend- it was busy and crazy and the kids all had so much fun! 

Davis’s little kindergarten class made snowmen in a directed drawing art project. The wall was full of big, white snowmen with blue sky backgrounds. Then here was Davis’s drawing. It was so cute and he was SO SO proud of it! I wrote down his commentary explaining his project because it was just the cutest!

Early in the month we embarked on a little refresh for the office/gym. We painted the whole thing, moved furniture around, fixed some drywall from the flood last year and hung up the new paintings Halie made for Ben for Christmas. I love the feel in here now! 

Just our cute, spunky girl all ready for church!

We hosted a dinner for our BYU friends. We usually get together at Christmas time, but December was so busy we moved it to January which was actually an awesome move. Between the Bennetts and the Virgins we have 13 kids between us and we love seeing these friends so much! The only picture I took was this one of Lila and Lucy. They look so much alike! 

“G major scale is the worst!”