January 2015

Hello again! It's been a long time. I made a goal to start blogging again and hope to do at least a monthly post.

January was a good month for our family. After the hustle and bustle of the holidays, it was good to get into a routine again.

The first weekend in January Jared decided he wanted to go skiing at Sunrise with his friend/cousin, Reyn. He was going to go by himself but we decided to all take the trip to play in the snow. On our drive up to Show Low, I took this picture of the snow on the mountains (with my camera phone, while we were driving:).  It was really pretty.


























Friday night when we got up there, we went to a family party and it was FREEZING! I was almost wondering if we should have stayed home but Saturday it warmed up and the kids had a lot of fun playing in the snow.  They built snow men and went sledding and just loved it.

I thought Brooklyn would tire of the snow quickly but she loved it just as much as the boys. Even when I decided it was nap time she came in very reluctantly:)






We used most of the snow in my parent's front yard, but I think Mr. Snowman turned out pretty great!

After building a snowman we got a sled and walked out to some hills in front of my parent's house.
























Here's couple of fun videos while we were sledding (sorry for my annoying voice!)

My brother decided to take Caleb and Kyson on a four wheeler ride in the snow so Brooklyn and I went back to the house. She really wanted to build another snowman so we built a miniature one:)

























The boys on the four wheelers ended up tying the sled to the back of the four wheelers and pulled everyone around. I know Caleb and Kyson had a lot of fun doing that! Overall it turned out to be a super fun trip to play in the snow. Jared had fun skiing and the rest of us enjoyed the snow at my parent's house.

A couple weekends later, I participated in the Color Run. It is a 5k that is very low key (as far as the competition) but fun and crazy. At every kilometer they throw color at you. At the yellow kilometer I got it in the face and was COVERED!
























My brother decided it would be fun to do a cartwheel through the red:)



Here's my sister, Jamie, and me at the end. Unfortunately I never got a picture of all of us together. Everyone that participated was, Jamie, me, Natalie, Dallas, Claire, Katie, and Jason.

Good times and fun memories!