January

For the second year in a row we went snowshoeing on New Years Day.  Brody was gone to SLC to ski for the day with his friend Landon, and Brad was in Texas selling for a week, and we couldn't convince Cam to come, so it was just me, Mike, the girls and Salomon (who is always thrilled to go anywhere). We went up Logan Canyon to Temple Fork and walked along the road until the trail to Temple Fork Saw Mill starts.  It was a beautiful day and especially nice to get out of the Cache Valley inversion and see the blue skies.  We had a fun afternoon. 

Cam and his friends bought a season pass to Park City this year (as well as one to Beaver) and he has loved having somewhere else to go skiing besides Beaver.  He doesn't even mind the long car ride, or when he crashes into a pole and gets a big scrape on his leg.  

One night, about 6 weeks before the upcoming girls choice Sweethearts dance, Cam got asked to the dance by three different girls.... all in the same night!  It was crazy!  He felt really bad for the 2 girls he had to turn down, but he's going with the girl who asked him first (technically...) This is the way the first girl asked him... (yes, she drew that picture of Cam- which I think is amazing.  She had previously turned it in for credit in her art class)

Brooke, the girl he's going with asked him this way- She left 7 frozen heart shaped blocks along with the Melt My Heart poster and a bunch of heart shaped candy on our front doorstep.  When he melted the hearts, the letters to her name were inside.  The other girl asked him by leaving a trail of Hershey kisses from our front door all the way to the driveway, with the poster at the end of the kisses and he had to search through the kisses to find the letters to spell out her name.  I thought the way each girl asked him was so cute and creative. 

One Sunday night we decided to have a taste testing party.  So, along with Jess (Brad in Texas) and the Bundys, we set out to discover the best kind of: marinara sauce, spaghetti noodles, brown soda pops, ranch dressing, tomatoes, cucumbers, string cheese and butter vs margarine on garlic toast.  We found that we all liked best whatever it was we were used to- but it was still fun to try different kinds of that many things.

Jess and Brad were tending the Hess kids that weekend, so all 5 kids had fun playing together- even favoring us with a musical number and a dance.

My living room hadn't been rearranged for over 3 years and I was ready for a change.  I found the new chair and ottoman at Sams Club so that was the push I needed to get it done.  I love the new look, and it's nice to have another place to sit.

I spent much of last summer and the last half of the year working on my first blog book.  It ended up being 160 pages.  I'm done scrap-booking and making family history books because I love doing it digitally so much more.  It's rather addicting.  I love how this one turned out and look forward to making many more.  I redid my wire picture holder in my room with all pictures of Jake- I love seeing those pictures every day.
MISC- Jess helped Kylee make a cute Christmas tree skirt- Mom trying to keep warm while spending an evening with us- I took my cute activity days girls ice skating at Merlin Olsen park- making some delicious fresh squeezed oranges from a box that Lorene sent me from AZ.

MORE MISC- An awesome winter picture of the temple- Cam got asked to Sky View's girls choice dance (but just by one girl...)- Mike's freaky fingers which go numb during the winter if he gets the least bit cold. It's so irritating to him and feels weird.