It's been a while! If I could only use one word to describe the past month it would be….. SNOWY!!!
So I will just leave it at that. haha Just kidding. I could never do that.
So we had Thanksgiving with the Rhodes clan at the church in Ashton, not sure I mentioned that last time. Then we went into Christmas mode. I was busy with Etsy as usual around the holiday season and did a lot of shopping online for my kids. We had planned to go down to Utah to visit Stacey and Kamrie the week before Christmas, but we got slammed with a HUGE amount of snow and were not able to travel. So we ended up spending Christmas in good old Rexburg. Josh technically worked on Christmas Day (he was so nice to volunteer to work for someone who wanted to visit family in Mexico for the holidays…) but he did come back and forth a lot and ate dinner here at home.
For Christmas the boys each got BB guns from Santa, some books, some legos from Grandma, they each got a science kit, Caleb got a hot wheels track and a build-your-own robot. Gabe got a sketchbook and some colored pencils and some online guitar lessons. Avery got some trolls, some my little ponies set, a peppa pig camper, Moana and Maui dolls, and more. All kids got lots of clothes (which they were super excited about… haha). The most precious thing was watching the boys give gifts to Avery. Gabe made her a Pokeman coloring book, for which he drew pictures for every page. He worked on it for days leading up to Christmas. Then he had the whole thing spiral bound on Christmas even day. It's adorable and she loved it. Caleb used some box tops at his school store to buy her some fuzzy slap bracelets, which she opened and then hugged him and said "You're the best brother ever." It melted my heart.
Then this last weekend on New Year's we finally did make it down to Utah. We went to Temple Square and saw the lights, went to the ice castles, the nickel arcade, and swimming at the rec center in Provo. The kids had a great time and it was so nice to see Stacey and Kamrie and their new town house that they've moved into. We had a fun New Year's eve there playing games and watching movies.
Now today the boys went back to school and Avery goes back tomorrow! Caleb had a big event today - he got his braces taken off his top teeth! They were mainly just there to straighten out his cross-bite on his two front teeth. Now that that's fixed, he is braces free for a few years until his teeth all come in! Gabe is still going through the torture of having to wear his rubber bands. Someday hopefully they will thank us for all this pain. ;)
Here are some pictures!
