January 2013

We'll try to get back on track again with this blog. I did a blog book a few months ago and LOVED going through and reading about old memories and would really like to get up to date again...so we'll take it a month at a time before we get there. :) 

Like I've said 1,000 times before WE LOVE ARIZONA!!! In January we were so pleasantly surprised at how nice it was outside...that we had to be out there all the time!

These two are just the best of friends...Boikins loves to ride one her lap in the car...

 New Years sparklers

 We would push Brynlee around in this tote and she loved it so she thought she would share the love with Boikins...who didn't love it as much.

 Every day is a good day to dress up :)

 We went for multiple walks to the park...and found treasures

 These two pictures pretty much sums up shower time, I try to hurry as fast as I can, meanwhile she is enjoying taking EVERYTHING out of the counters and trying on my make up.

 Loves Daddy's hats

 We couldn't have been more excited for our first grapefruit season! We had a friend that their family doesn't like grapefruit and let us come pick everything we wanted. We also got a slew of grapefruit from Adam's Grandparents...which was amazing and some from other members of our ward. It was a successful season for us.

 Babysitting over at Hazel and Ty's...Brynlee's best friends

 We just can't get enough of that park! Look at that genuine smile!

 We had a super fun family day at the Hole in the Rock with Kim & Danielle and their kids, we did a little hiking and playing...and eating.

 Then on Presidents day we headed to the zoo...Brynlee wasn't quite old enough to appreciate it, but Tia and Tara sure loved taking sure caring her around and taking care of her! They are such good cousins. It was a beautiful day to be outside and it made it better to be with family.

 She was out before we even made it out of the park. Can't resist this cute sleeping face!

Christmas in Idaho

It was so much fun to go back to Idaho for Christmas. Adam was able to get the whole week off which was really nice! Throughout the week we were there, Rachel and Heather's families had planned on coming to Rupert to see us but there were bad snow storms through the whole week. Mel and Steven were able to come up for Christmas Eve and Day and then they had to head back for work, so it was really fun to have them there too! But for the rest of the week it was just us and my parents. We were so excited for Brynlee to play in the snow and see how she liked it...and she loved it! She loved sledding even more, we went 3 different times while we were there and she would cry every time we would get her off to go back inside, even though she was freezing. Christmas Eve we had my Grandparents come over for dinner and we watched Joy to the World then my Grandpa read the scriptures, I always love when he does because he reminds me of the Christmases growing up. Christmas morning we opened presents and had our traditional Christmas breakfast, but the best part was that we got to skype with David! It was so much fun to see him! Later in the week we went bowling, which was super fun! It had been a long time since we've bowled. The before we went to the airport we headed to the new mall on temple square which was super nice...and super busy! It was sad to leave...like always. But we had a blast while we were there! 

Christmas Part 2

We decided it'd be a lot easier if we had our own Christmas to open all of our presents before we headed to Idaho. So the weekend before we left we did our own Christmas festivities that Saturday. Brynlee got the hang of opening presents after a little while, but lost interest soon after that, so we had to take little breaks in between opening them up. Adam and I had fun though, he got me an Apple tv and a gift card to go clothes shopping, and I got him a Kindle, which he was excited about, he's been wanting one for a while. We couldn't leave Boikins out either, so we got him a nice big bone for him to chew on all day. This first picture is a Christmas decoration that Grandma Gooch made that Adam grew up with, it's is favorite Chirstmas decoration from his childhood, so he loved having it hand in our house this year.