Playing in the cozy coupe

A couple of weeks ago on a fairly mild day for winter, Molly wanted to play outside for a bit and she was being so cute I decided to grab my camera. I'm glad I did because these pictures make me smile. I love this age.

Targhee and the cabin

About a month ago our family headed to Idaho for a ski trip to Targhee and the cabin. We invited our friends, the Grays, to come along and we had such a great weekend!

Sean and I grew up skiing at Targhee but it had been several years since we had been there. It is such an awesome place and I realized how much I miss it. Utah hasn't had much snow this year-- it finally picked up a little bit in the last two weeks, but before that, we hadn't had anything. We were really missing skiing, so we got the idea to take the older two boys to Targhee on our way up to the cabin. Targhee had plenty of snow! My parents kept Davis and Molly and met us at the cabin later. It was such a great set up! 

It was a snowy day, which gave us lots of fresh powder and fresh tracks at the beginning of the day! 

The boys loved Targhee and the snow was so awesome. It was so much fun being back and fun skiing with our friends! 

All that blowing snow made for a pretty awesome hairdo. 

I am so glad that Jackson and Bode both love to ski. I am excited for the day when our whole family can go!

After skiing, we headed to Island Park to the cabin. We spent the rest of the weekend there and enjoyed all of the snow. The kids had fun sledding behind the cars and building a snow fort.

Molly loved all of the snow and kept eating it. She got to ride in style on our walk in the sled grandpa bought her.

It was an awesome wintry weekend. We had so much fun we've already talked about going again next year!

Riley and Hunter's wedding

At the beginning of January we headed to St. George to attend our niece Riley's wedding. She was just a toddler when Sean and I first started dating and now here she is all grown up and married! It has been fun seeing her grow up and a little surreal to think she now has a family of her own. Hunter seems like a great guy and we wish them an eternity of happiness together. The ceremony itself was really beautiful-- one of my favorite I have attended. The sealer told us that every latter-day prophet except Joseph Smith had also been in that same room, which I thought was really neat. 

Riley was a beautiful bride. My favorite part of the reception was watching she and her dad have a father/daughter dance. It was one of the sweetest things I have seen and made me choke up. It made me put myself in Shane and Erin's shoes and imagine what it will feel like to have a child leaving the nest. 

It was a lot of fun because Sean's brothers that we very rarely see both traveled to St. George also. Steven and Sophie came from Virginia and it was the first time our kids had met Sophie. They hit it off right away and had a great time swimming and hanging out together.  Zach, Reeta, and Claire all came from Texas and it was great spending time with them as well. I wish these family get togethers could happen more!

John, Sean, and Steven

On our drive back home, we decided to stop at Toquerville Falls. We have wanted to see it for quite awhile and figured it was a great time since it was on the way. You have to do some fairly decent off-roading, but it was a lot of fun. Steven, Sophie, John and Sylvia came with us and we all crammed in Sean's car. 

The falls were really cool and it was definitely worth the drive!

Jackson turns 9!

Since we were up at our friends' cabin for Jackson's birthday, we told him he could have a "party" when we got back. I presented the idea of taking a few friends to pizza and a movie, and he loved the idea.

We went to Pieology and each boy got to customize his own pizza. They were all so excited to get their own with whatever they wanted on it!

After pizza we headed to the movie theater and saw Paddington 2. Jackson asked specifically to go to the American Fork Cinemark so we could have the "luxury recliner" seats. Again, the boys were all so excited. I got them a few big popcorns to share and the movie was really cute. Sean stayed home with Molly and Davis and I felt lucky I got to be the one to go and have so many cute dates!

Jackson is a great kid and we are so glad he is our first. He takes the role of big brother seriously and is a big help to us. We also feel very fortunate to live in a neighborhood where he has made some really great friends and we are glad some of them could come help celebrate him turning 9!