1st Quarter

January is usually boring. It was actually one of the mildest winters I can remember since living in Utah, but still not quite warm enough to go to the parks most of the time, I was going to skip mention of it altogether until found some cute pics that were noteworthy.

I love that they love each other (most of the time)

Silly Tristan

Bedtime snuggles with daddy

 I love that I caught these two cute guys in their matching twinner outfits making bread

 This was a Saturday warm enough to go to the park, its actually a really cool park, I wish I would've taken a pic of it, its like all castley like

 Oh yea, we went dogsledding as  family with Ryan's work, that was pretty cool!

 We also got to go this movie premier, we felt pretty cool, because we got to go to this upstairs lounge place at the theatre and get free food!  And the movie is such an inspiring movie!

February was busy!  Both Ryan's mom and his sister and bro-in- laws family went on a cruise out of Florida at the same time and we kept seeing their cool pics of them at the beach having a blast, so Ryan sent them a pic of what cool exciting things we were up to, it wasn't very hard to get a pic of both kids crying and upset at the same time:) I also got to pick up some extra at home work while his sister and brother in law were vacationing, between 4-5:30 every day which kind of threw off our routine but was nice to get some extra income!

 Another warm Saturday afternoon we went kite flying, Tristan got to pick out the kite (Super Man)

 We had a free weekend, Valentines/Presidents day weekend so we packed up for our 2nd annual trip and drove to sunny Arizona to visit Annaliese's family!  Its safe to say Tristan and Carter became fast friends.

Ivory loved being able to hang outside in Annaliese's back yard. 

We hit up one of our favorite spots the Train Park in Scottsdale.

 The kids liked opening up their Valentines day presents from Grandma,  can't go wrong with chocolate with these kids.

 Here I am looking huge pushing the kids around

We took Annaliese up on her offer to watch the kids Valentines day afternoon while we went to the most yummy mexican restaraunt!  (not pictured)  We had a lovely dinner of cheesey fondue and chocalate fondue goodness after the kids were in bed and/or watching a movie upstairs.  We stocked up on Blue Bell ice cream (good thing I didn't know about the dietary guidelines yet for gestinational diabetes)  And generally had a relaxing, warm fun weekend.  My only regret is that I was unbelievably pooped at the end of each relaxing day and couldn't stay awake to play games.

 On our way back we stopped in Vegas at our fave places -  Bellagio Gardens and fountain show.

  On our way home Ryan got a phone call from IHC that would change things up for us, more about that in the next post!