Turning 32, Dear Evan Hansen, and more snow than anyone can believe!

What fun we had in March! 

Greg was able to take multiple trips to Nordic with the girls in tow, we had some fun days before Snowmageddon 2023 hit (holy cow!) and fun watching our girls grow. Oh yeah, and I turned 32. It is a number that sounds old. I'm still coming to grips with it.

Sof is the best sister ever and used her Bulldog Bucks at school to buy Claire a matching Octopus toy.

The cutest little legs hiding behind the shower curtain.

Preschool crafts bring me so much joy!

Snowmageddon 2023 resulted in a igloo for the girls, courtesy of their awesome Daddy.

Everything about this 🤟

Living her best life being pulled in a sled with unlimited snow at her desposal to eat.

And, holy snow! It just kept coming and coming and coming .... and with each square of my deceivingly LONG driveway that I had to shovel, I quickly started rethinking all of my life choices:
1. Why the HELL don't we own a snowblower?
2. Why don't we live somewhere warmer?
3. Why does snow even freaking have to exist?

But, I soon came to remember that this is one season of my life. Kaysville is great, but I hope to live closer to Southern Utah one day, and so I'm content to sit back and enjoy this chapter of my life while I'm here. It's pretty great otherwise (with or without the snow, I guess).

A definite snow day!

More time on the ski's! Greg figured out how to leave Claire on the magic carpet while taking Sof down the big hill. Parent of the year award goes to him, obviously!

Improvment is beautiful!

It was fun watching our cute neighbor star as Maui in the Burton Play

Thank you Google. See if you can guess which is Sof and which is Quincey.

Before Snowmageddon 2023, the girls decided to take every single stuffed animal that they own outside. It was pretty cute!

My brilliant idea to go to the park lasted about 5 minutes before the craziest storm hit, sending us to Arctic Circle. #worthit.

She had the audacity at church one day to look so grown up! She is a beautiful little soul 💗

Greg learned from his previous Snow/Sun encounters to protect his forehead!

The cutest Leprechaun in all the land!

She's hilarious!

Claire must be pretty tasty for Hondo to lick her like he is.

Not exactly sure what is going on here, but I kind of love it.

That one time I turned 32 ...

And we went to Johnny Rockets to celebrate ...

And it took forever and a day to finally get our food ...

But we had fun anyway. It was a great day!

Sof ended up having an ear infection on my birthday, which wasn't terrible, because we came across this quote which I instantly fell in love with.

These two have the cutest little bond.

3 years later, on March 2, 2023 Greg's wildest dreams came true when he was finally able to witness Dear Evan Hansen in real life. And it was amazing! 

Can you see the orchestra suspended above the stage in the top left hand corner? It was the coolest thing to be able to see them throughout the performance!

And we were close enough to The Cheesecake Factory that Greg let me indulge in a slice all for myself. If you haven't experienced the Mango Cheesecake for yourself, you are seriously missing out!

The cutest little model.

She's a big oatmeal fan.

Quincey discovered the Doc McStuffin's car, and it was the cutest thing ever watching Claire push her around on it!

And that's a wrap.

That one day we took the Girls skiing ...

Greg was able to find a Saturday in March that didn't require him to go into the office to work, and my parent's just so happened to be up north that same weekend, so we arranged for my Mom to watch Quincey while Greg and I took the girls skiing for the first time that afternoon. 

It turns out that kids are free to ski at Nordic, so we spent the day there, and it was an absolutely BEAUTIFUL day! It's amazing how the mood lifts when you leave the valley inversion. The sun was HOT and we got fried. 1000% worth it!

We inherited the cutest ski's from April and Toby (Thank you!) and we practiced with the girls on how to stop and go. Sofi had been practicing on her roller blades, so we weren't too concerned about her, and she actually was a natural! She loved going up and down on the magic carpet area.

Claire was a different story. Girlfriend went limp from the first minute and was an absolute mess. But, the longer we worked with her, and after she got some fries in her (that's another story), she perked right up and was ready for the big hill.

Melting Claire. She was on her back more than she was standing on her ski's. The poor person running the Magic Carpet knew to slow and/or stop it when they saw us coming. Bless everyone else behind us - Claire is hilarious. Or at least we can laugh about it now, 7 months later :).

It's so funny how one kid was acting like this ....

And the other one was having the time of her life. But, that's usually how it goes.

It was the first time any of us had felt temperatures in the 30's, and we got FRIED! All of us. We had church the next day and everyone who saw us had the comment, "Looks like you've been somewhere fun," because of our Racoon eyes. My favorite though, is Greg's forehead. He had that rainbow stripe on his face for months. The poor guy, which meant I would look at him and laugh for months.

He's used to it. Love you, Greggy!

We had such a fun day! Quincey behaved (mostly) for Grandma Jan. Remember that she was in a major stranger-danger phase and had no clue who Grandma Jan was. But, they came to get along and my Mom had a lot of fun with her.

Cue Claire, at 2:30ish that following morning, complaining of a stomach ache, then proceeded to throw up consistently every 10 minutes for the next couple of hours. Poor girl! We blamed the fries she ate at Nordic. When Claire gets sick, she gets sick! But, she eventually recovered, and we were in the all-clear to go skiing again, but avoided getting fries. It didn't end well for anyone.

Other Fun in February

 February was a breeze. It's fun to relive the inbetween of the grander moments. Quincey turned 1 and the older girls are growing like weeds. Where does the time go, truly?

Bike rides mid-February. Not too shabby! We used Quincey's Little Tikes swing as a seat, and she loved every second of it!

Took a trip downtown one day and we stopped at the Temple site. What they have done to it completely astounds me. Engineering is so cool!!!

We took the train with some friends to Salt Lake one day during Free Fare February. We had fun walking around City Creek, but it was a learning experience to always go north. Salt Lake doesn't bring me joy. But, it was fun walking around with friends for a change. 

Modeling some Eclair + Co. Sunglasses, and their expressions are hilarious!

How is this even comfortable?

Soaking up some much needed Sunny D on our awesome deck. North facing isn't always ideal, but sun was get in our backyard during the winter makes up for it.

We were able to escape to a yummy Cajun-style restaurant for Valentine's Day, and it was a lot more delicious than I thought! It was a fun experience.

Eating snow. She loved it!

I didn't realize how fuzzy Mittens was last winter. Holy cow! Boyfriend was fluffy!
And, he took his nightly post outside Quincey's bath tub very seriously.

It was Claire's turn to bring Pete the Cat home for a weekend from Preschool, and boy did she have a lot of fun with him! She had some pretty big plans on how to spend her days with the cute stufftie.

Another photoshop with the cutest babe ever in her Eclair + Co. Goods.

Getting more and more fun as the days go by!

Claire was the only one brave enough to go out in the cold and get the mail. Her outfit killed me! I can't exactly remember why I filmed her, but I'm sure glad I did.

Video footage of Quincey on her maiden voyage on the GOAT. She loved it!