Slower Pace in January

There has been a lot of piling cushions and blankets and then jumping off of them lately

 Kim had a temple and priesthood preview meeting this last Sunday so she used her letter board as a decoration

 Hello Mr. Squirrel

Lyza used a coupon to make a treat with Mom. She chose some chocolate chip cookie truffles 

 Mason got to help make them too

 I took the kids down to the beach park and they had fun exploring in the forest

 In the evening we got to eat the truffles

 Nixon has mad skills and can eat a truffle without getting chocolate all over his face (I think he learned from me)

 Mason learned how to eat from his mom ;)

 Henry has rubbed the hair off the back of his head

 Mason still loves to play with his magnatiles

 That is a crazy hair do Lyza

 Nixon helped get all of the boys' dress shoes ready on Sunday before church

 I took the opportunity to get a portrait of my handsome 4 yer old before church

 Lyza too

 And of course we did some silly faces

 I love this one

 We had some lemons on the table for our water at Sunday dinner. Mason got a hold of them and enjoyed them more than we imagined

I got to use the light brite with Nixon

 Good work!

Here is Henry having some sleepy snuggles with Kim 

 For family home evening on Monday we made collages from old Friend magazines for our activity. Mason loved using the glue and scissors

 Henry was so good watching us

 Whenever he got hungry he just ate his bottom lip

 He LOVED cutting paper

 My serous baby

 I am not sure what he was doing

 The next day Mason got some more time with the paper and scissors. Here is the aftermath.

 Henry always has smiles for his mom

 He loves grabbing his feet and now his legs

Get ready...

 This new jumper my office bought us is awesome

 Kim getting some vitamin D with the boys

Kim found some Black Panther toys at Walmart on clearance for $1 each. Here is Nixon's reaction

 Lyza had her first activity days activity and had lots of fun. They made smoothies (yum)

 We got some snow this week so the kids got to get out and play

 Nixon used his choice of dinner coupon this week. He chose waffles

 It is amazing how much whipped cream straight out of the can Henry can eat!

 Kim taught preschool this week. I don't think the subject was the food pyramid ;)

 It had something to do with fish

 Well after bed time Lyza came out of her room and snuck up on Kim wearing this

I tested out the time lapse feature on our camera this morning. Here is a time laps of me and the two big boys having breakfast

 The big kids had gymnastics again today. They started off stretching

Their stretching is kind of silly

 They got to play on the balance beam

They even used it backwards

 And crawled on it like cats

 They also worked on donkey kicks (because world class gymnasts all mastered the donkey kick before moving on to other routines and skills)

 There are always a lot of smiles when they play with the parachute at the end (again, another fundamental gymnastics skill)

That's all for now. Have a great week and take care!