Bella, Gabe and Josiah

None of us care beans about football. At least, none of us except for Gabe. So this week was the Superbowl and I was planning that we’d all go to the pool and it would be empty because everyone was watching the game. Instead, Gabe washed to watch the game, so that’s what we did. We made sure to have lots of snuggle buddies. At one point, it was just me and the snuggle buddies. Unfortunately Gabe was going for the Chiefs and was convinced they could still pull it off mid-4th quarter… It ended up being a lot more fun than I thought and we all had a fun afternoon. Gabe was bummed about the results, but Josy was not, as he’d switched his allegiance from the Chiefs (because they’re red!) to the Eagles (because they had more points).

We’ve been home for a month and life has been crazy. We showed up and had two solid weeks where 1-3 members of the family was sick every single day. Then I left for the weekend to surprise Laurie (a whole different post…). But we’re now all healthy and trying to get back into the swing of life, which is never boring… It’s been pretty warm, which is very bizarre for January. But last week we finally got some snow. Other area of town got a lot, but we only had a couple of inches. That said, the boys were determined to go sledding, so we headed out. As a side note, suddenly the boys are big enough to both pull the sled. How did that happen??? Josy was actually pushing Gabe at this point. It ended up being so much fun. But it was getting dark and we had to cook dinner, so we had to cut it short. It was the 100th day of school. Josy was supposed to dress up like he was from 100 years ago, so naturally Gabe had to join him. Funny, the both look about like normal… This sunrise  too pretty...

Last night, right as I was reading asleep, I realized that I’d somehow missed posting all the pictures of our trip to see the dinosaur tracks. I have no idea how I missed that… It was a really cool area to explore. It was too steep for Gram and Gramps and Seth took Knox home to give him a nap, but the rest of us had a great time. The three big boys could have explored for a very long time, even though Josy did tell me very dramatically that “Bryson won’t stop hiking!”

And once again the pictures posted backwards… It’s safe to say that Josy was exhausted by the time we got home. This was Josy waiting for our luggage… All good things must come to end, so it was time to fly home. For our anniversary, we got tickets to see the Tournament of Kings show, which was so much fun! We found a hat store and the boys tried very hard to convince me that they needed these hats. We packed up the house in St George and all headed back home. Well, we headed to Las Vegas for our flight… But we got to Vegas with enough extra time that we hit up the Hoover Dam. And that was our whole Christmas trip. Now we’re home, back to work and school and trying to recover from all of the bugs that we picked up along the way…

For our last full day in St George, we had to catch up on all the things that we still needed to do. We had a family meeting in the sunshine. Meanwhile the boys built a pretty impressive fort. Then we had to go back to the dinosaur park to use our train tickets. And the big boys spent yet another afternoon at the pool.