January

I love January!  I'm always so glad to be done with Christmas, I don't know why I let it stress me out so much. This one was especially bad!  January is also Luke's birthday month.  6 years old!!  It makes me so sad to say that.  He is growing up, and I'm not happy about it!  

This year we decided instead of having a party we would go on a trip!  So we went to Williams, AZ and took the train to the Grand Canyon!  It was a blast! It had just snowed a bunch that week, which made the train ride gorgeous and the Grand Canyon was incredible.  It's so amazing I almost feel like I'm looking at a picture, it's unreal!  I'm really surprised more people don't fall over the edge.  There were lots of parts that had no railing and the ground was ICY!  Our tour guide, Oscar, (Paige needs to fill you in on her buddy Oscar!) told us that only 10 people die from falling over the edge each year and half of those did it on purpose (Thelma and Louise) or were PUSHED OFF!  The other half slipped on ice and plunged to their death! (j/k, but that is what I was thinking!)

The day after our train ride we went sledding!  SO MUCH FUN!! I could watch my kids sled all day (if it wasn't soooo cold!)  They had a blast.  The snow was very slick.  I fell down once and could not get up.  Todd had to coming over and pick me up.  It was hilarious (and embarrassing)!

Another fun thing Paige and I (and all the girl cousins) did in January was Princesses on Ice!  It was new and improved this year - except for the fact that they didn't all come out at the end in their wedding dresses, which is our favorite part.  But they added lots of special effects.  The little girl behind us started freaking out ,during Sleeping Beauty, when the dragon came out and spit fire!  FREAKING OUT!!  Kind of sad, kind of funny.  This was the first year the girls didn't all dress up as Princesses, but they did wear princess shirts at least!  The little girls, Molly, Grace & Quinney still dressed up and were the cutest things ever!  

  

Paige also had her first violin concert!  She started taking lessons at the beginning of the school year and has gotten pretty good.  I love to listen to her practice.  We are hoping someday to have her learn to play the harp, but her violin teacher thinks we should wait another year or two. 

I think that sums it all up for January.  I tried to move the pictures around so they weren't all at the top together, but I can't figure it out, and I'm getting frustrated trying.  Maybe Paige will fix it for me when she gets home from school.  I love that she knows how to do all that stuff.