New Years and the latest stuff

The picture above is a random shot of something Sophia created on the lite brite a few weeks ago. Not sure how it ended up at the top of this post but there it is.

Moving on.  We had a good New Year's Eve.  We went to Doug's sister's house for games and yummy food and then came home and had a small family celebration.  We poured everyone a little bubbly and then watched the ball drop live in New York (10 pm so we wouldn't have to stay up until Midnight!)

 Here's everyone counting down

 Mabel enjoyed her bubbly.

The next day Doug had the day off so we decided to take a trip up to Salt Lake.  We planned on going to the planetarium and a few other places but pretty much everything was closed so the planetarium was it!  We watched a little movie and then let the kids play around.  Here they are on Mars

 and the moon. 

 It was a fun day and nice to spend some time with dad before his busy season starts!

Now onto more random stuff.  Lilly's preschool played in the snow yesterday and she came home with these fun things.  A snowman (filled with real snow), a picture of our family having a snowball fight and her class in the snow.  I love her preschool.  They do the best stuff.  Her favorite from the day was they brought out the parachute and placed a ton of cotton balls on top.  The kids got to fling them in the air so that it looked like it was snowing. She said it was so fun.

Every Friday we let the kids choose where they want to sleep.  This time they picked the fold out couch in the living room.  Mabel refused to be left out so of course she had to sleep with them.

Last Sunday Sophia got to go to the baptism preview in our stake (so hard to believe she's getting baptized this year!).  They gave each of the kids a giant footprint cookie (it was seriously the size of the plate) with their name on it so that they can remember they're following Christ's footsteps by getting baptized.  She loved it.

Finally, I have 2 brothers who live in Charlotte who happened to go to the Jazz/Bobcats game last night.  After the game Stuart called us and waved to Sophia on the TV.  You can kind of see him to the left of the announcer.  She pretty much thought it was the greatest thing ever!  Thanks Stu!