January catch up

For Christmas Great Grandma and Grandpa Oyama got the kids the softest robes I’ve ever felt! They love them and wear them every night and morning and LOVE to snuggle in them after getting out of the bath. Here they are in front of our tree a few days after Christmas.

Posing in the robes :)

I was in charge of our ward talent show/ New years party this year at church. It was a great success (much to my surprise) with lot’s of fun “talents” and great food! Lucy was the only brave kiddo from our family- she sang Taylor Swift’s “You Belong with me,” and she did a fantastic job!

January means Birthdays in our family! Starting with Graham (the most important!) He turned 3 and helped make his cake complete with things he loves…the color green, tractors, Batman, and random farm animals he found in his toys. He enjoyed opening his gifts and playing with his toys and is growing up WAY TOO FAST!! (anyone know how to stop this terrible trend?)

       For Todd’s b-day we had fresh Dungeness crab for dinner- his favorite! It was D-D-D-licious! For my b-day (not pictured as I am the picture taker) we went out to “Roosters” – a restaurant close to our house that has the best homemade chicken noodle soup I have ever tasted in my life! (Carson even chose the noodle soup over french fries… what kid does that?! A true testament to the soup’s “yumminess!”)

  Todd built a monster fort one Saturday and later on that day I went hunting for Graham because I hadn’t heard him in a while and this is how I found him… asleep next to his lunch.

  As you may recall Lucy is taking art lessons from a friend and she is loving every second of it! Below is her first completed masterpiece. She’s quite talented huh? I was blown away that my 7 year old could do that, but then again she does work hard with her teacher. She has learned a lot and is focusing on trees and shadowing…can you tell? I told her it was so good I’d pay money for it…no joke!

Graham has discovered “The Piano Guys” (if you’ve never heard of them google it, they are truly amazing), and is in love with their “Cello Wars” – in which the guy plays a cello in Star Wars fashion. In his efforts to mimic them he opted to use his guitar as a violin and his green wand as a bow…next best thing right? So, is 3 years old too young to start lessons? J/K I am always told there aren’t enough pictures of me on here (it’s hard when I’m always the one behind the camera). The other day I was wearing my favorite hat and decided to snap a picture. I am so glad I decided to splurge a bit on myself while we were at Disneyland, I seriously love this hat! It can be a terrible hair day and then I put my Mickey gangsta hat on and viola- I feel great! Nothing can get me down in my Mickey hat :) 

Today we got some snow…some really wet, soggy snow. About 2 inches of it. As the temperature began to rise I hustled to get the kids out in it before it melted all away…here is what came of their efforts to build a snowman. I don’t know about you but I think the cute kids outshine the cute snowman by far!