Let's PLAY

Man oh man are my little ones growing up quickly. It's so stressful sometimes just trying to keep up with them, but I'm trying to enjoy their playfulness. What an enormous blessing to have healthy, happy children.

Our Tiny Dancer

We were SUPER lucky to hear about this darling lady in our neighborhood who teaches dance in our neighborhood. Tierra Nielsen is her name, and Emme is just in love with taking dance from her.

I mean...

And when we put tap shoes on her, she was the sassiest little thing. (No surprise there!) This is going to be so fun!

January in Everyday Photos

Here is January in everyday photos:

We have this fun New Years tradition with the Scotts of having an auction with a bunch of dollar store stuff with the kids. They all get a sheet of "Al Bucks" with Grandpa Scott's face on them and bid on treats and junk. They LOVE it! It was sweet to watch Uncle Dan play with Hudsie.

Backstory: I always text Shaye with a few choices for dinner (...and he usually just wants cereal...). This time Brauts was one of the choices and the autocorrect sent back "Beauty" to which I responded with this lame selfie. He's not one to necessarily dish out compliments, especially over texting, and so his response really got me.

Shaye was out of town for work and I was at my wit's end one night, so I packed the kids up in the van, turned up the heat, and drove to Swig to get myself a Coconut Hot Chocolate. They were fast asleep before we even got there. Mom win for sure!

One day that was really fun was the day Shaye's Enchroma glasses came. These glasses correct his red/green color deficiency, and so we dressed in bright colors for his big color reveal.

The results were amazing. He couldn't get over how red this bush in our yard was. He said even our skin looked more red than he realized. Colors like purple aren't vibrant with his colorblindness, so he was astonished by how it looked. Those glasses are so cool!

My little workout buddy. It's half annoying and half adorable!

Me in all my nerdiness--thrilled to finally have curbside recycling!!

I love my new calling playing the piano in Primary. The music is simple and fun, and I'm learning to be a bit quicker on my feet with sight reading and following.

Traces of Shaye are so rare on The Piano Guy's social media, so when they post with him and the whole group, it makes me happy.

We had too much fun hanging at the Lofgrans' while Steph nannied for them. They also came over to our house. Below are some pictures of Emme mauling Anders.

I can't look at these without laughing. Emme was just real excited about having Sanders over. After this, Anders said, "I can't! She's too much!" Yeah, little buddy, I know what you mean.

These two have started playing outside together, and it makes my mama heart so happy!

The simple pleasure of playing at Little Valley park.

We got heart attacked in January. So fun!