January 12 of 12

 January 12 of 12... At least I posted it before February's came out!  It has been a typical January month.  A month of the Holiday Hangover when  you have no choice but to get back to the grind of everyday living.   Blah!  But we have seemed to make the most of it, and even actually have had fun along the way.

1- My 13 weeks along pic
2- We have had the fever at our house which constitutes a diet of Meds and Chocolate Milk!
3-My friend Jamie Anderson is moving away... Boo hoo Sniff Sniff
4-Over at Jamie's helping her clean and get ready for the big move.
5-My new calling in the new ward.... VT District Leader (In this case "calling" is literal!)
6-Coloring is a favorite past time here.  Axel's go to color for everything is Black..Hmmm.
7-And Grady does everything Axel does.
8-Our newest family member:  Slider the Penguin...(Axel named him cause Penguins slide on the ice)
9-Axel loving the snowy playground
10-Axel's newest tweek on his play car ramp... it is now a pirate ship with his furry blanket.
11-Grady's passion is trains, especially when Dad plays with them and keeps saying, "Oh no! The bridge is out!" in the famous Arnold Swartzenagger voice that Axe now tries to imitate!
12-A good bye Pina Colada with said friend, Jamie Anderson.  I live for Olive Garden's Pina Colada's (virgin of course)

And since we have the January Blah's I have included some of our December fun since we always have an overabundance of fun and photos.

Axel's loves hanging out with his girl cousins Addy, Camille, and Ellie.   You should have seen the meltdown he had when he found out Camille had to go home.  It was truly tramautic. 

The fam, with our beautiful tree and meager decorations!  But even though we wouldn't be in Bozeman very long, I couldn't not have a tree when it makes me sooo happy.

Our sledding trip at the famous Hubbard Hill

Aaah Sisters.

Aaah Sisters.  Check out those snow suits.  Yeah, we are bringing sexy back!

Eli was glad to get on a sled again.  Grady didn't last very long.

Mariah on the saucer.  She was a sledding animal.

The snowman here is Travis.  Sitting in the front spot on the taboggan was not a coveted place!

Eli with that look of determination.  The sled is stopped Hub.  It is over. :)

Alex manning the other sled.  He played the worst trick on Mariah and Sunny pretending that he couldn't remember them since the accident.  It was cruel and hilarious all at the same time.  Mariah was furious when the truth came out.  Forgiveness may have to come in the next life for Alex. :)

Sunny and Camille getting whitewashed.

The three toe-headed stooges.  Jax, Axe, and Grady were inseparable during the whole week.  I love how much they all love tractors... that is the show that has them fixated on the T.V.

Like I said on my side of the family their aren't any boy cousins remotely close to Axel's age but so he resorts to dress up.  I was actually impressed with how well he functioned in high heels.  He put me to shame.  It's okay it's all part of growing up.  Eli was surrounded by sisters so he can empathize with the Axe.

Our secret weapon with Grady is tickling.  He loves having his tummy and back tickled.  It immediately makes him stop whatever he is doing and he will just sit their mesmorized.  We use it a lot in sacrament meeting and it works like a charm.  Most of the time, he will snap out of it before he falls asleep but this time he just couldn't fight it with all the late nights of Christmas.