January 2017

 Tate's a builder.

 Our very kind neighbor, Dave, took the kids to the HUB a few Saturdays ago.  They had a blast.  This is Avery and Hope.

 Here's Tate and Derek at the HUB.

 This is my favorite picture of Henry and his friend, Liam.  They were talking on their cell phones, which were actually blocks.

 Baby girl loves her some hats, and underwear head.

She loves dolls already.

Sometimes, especially during the winter, we host big fun play dates.  By the end, movies are our best option =).

Tate just did a school project.  He had to pose as a historic figure and when somebody tapped his shoulder, he recited facts about that person.  He was Thomas Edison and did great.  Love this boy!

January Church

I've had fun dressing up baby for church this month.  She's quite the doll!

Life With the Littles

 Here's my view every morning as we travel to the gym, aka "my sanity".

 Finley's just a lot of fun, and really beautiful, so I take lots of pictures.  I know how fast she is growing!

 Love this picture of Davin, and less than a month until I get to hold this little ball of beautiful squishiness!

The kids pushing each other during family fun time at the Y.

 Sometimes we go to the library.  They both just want to play on the computers.

 Henry joined the Sunbeams class in Primary this year.  No more nursery has been sad for him, but he handles it well.  He told me one morning that all the big kids do this move.  I couldn't figure out what he was talking about until my friends told me that it's the "all about the Lamenites" pose in the "Book of Mormon Stories" song.

Snowpocalapse 2017

  With all the snow we're having this year, I was dying to have some family pictures taken in the snow.  As I perused Pinterest one night drooling over other people's family snow pictures, I commented to Eric that I wish mom lived here so we could take pictures.  That not being the case, I wished we could afford Becca as our photographer.  The very next day Becca said that she was looking for a babysitter on a somewhat regular basis and so I jumped on that not only because her daughter is awesome, but because I knew she would barter for pictures!  We ran out of sunlight before Eric got to our location and not all the kids were cooperative, so I didn't expect much after the shoot, but I think we got some really cute pictures.  

  It has been snowing all year.  I love that Missoula just keeps on with life as usual because they have snow plows.  Kennewick has had tons of snow, too, and they had 3 snow days off of school last week followed by 2 late starts. I'm sure my kids would prefer that Missoula followed suit.  I am very anxious for this to melt, however, not only because I hate winter, but because I want to go meet my nephew Davin Gray, born December 30th!