Last Thursday (December 29th) we got snow! Nick had to work the AM shift so Max, Maliya, and I made our own little attempt at a snowman. We thought he turned out pretty cute! Go Cougs!
Bottom pictures: Cole and Maliya demolishing our IPad that's been broken for about 5 years (I finally admitted that it wasn't fixable) and Max making cookie dough!
We woke up to more snow (lots of snow) last Friday. Nick, Alex, and the kids went to work and made a super cool fort!
There was even more snow on Saturday(!) and so, after getting our cleaning done, we all (me too!) added on to our fort. It was a legit igloo when we were done. So cool.
That (Saturday) was New Year's Eve day. After building and then coming in for cocoa (of course!) we did even more cleaning. (We've been on an organizing kick and over the winter break have managed to clean out and organize almost the entire house!) Once we were done we had lunch and then all watched the Michigan bowl game together! We were all dressed in our new Michigan duds and had fun watching together ... despite the fact that Michigan lost. Bleh.
After the game we decorated the jammie shirts that we should've been decorating in Utah with our cousins. We were originally supposed to spend New Year's weekend at a Rolfe family reunion but it had to get postponed due to weather. Again, bleh. We were super bummed (especially Cole!). It would've been such a fun trip. We managed to have some fun at home, though, and are looking forward a having the reunion in the summer.
After the Michigan game and dinner we played some really fun minte-to-win-it type games that Kim and Robert gave us for Christmas. They came in a big rootbeer-shaped can and the object was to win 'ingredients' to make your own rootbeer float. We all played, Max included, and all enjoyed the games, especially Maliya, who ended up as our grand winner!
After games we busted out the bubbly (just soda) and toasted the new year. It was only 8:30 but we figured we'd do it then so Max could enjoy it. That was a good idea because we started movie time next and Max was ready to sleep by about 9. Actually he and Madison both were. I took them to bed and read them a book and then left them to sleep ... but they came down 15 minutes later mad that I'd 'put them to bed', even though they'd wanted it. Ironically they were both asleep on the couch 15 minutes later. (We did wake Madison up and then she fought to stay awake until 12. Poor thing, she seemed slightly miserable!). Not surprisingly, Cole and Maliya both made it to midnight! It was a fun AND relaxing night. (Although I was sad about the reunion, I actually didn't mind having a peaceful New Year's Eve celebration.)
On Monday the 2nd we made the kids do more organizing and to reward their hard work (they really did work hard) we went bowling. Madison rocked it and got a ton of spares! She even broke 100!
Random picture - the girls and I have started studying the CFM manual together (using our new journals) and have really enjoyed it. I'm very excited to come closer to Christ and closer to my sweet girls through our studies this year.
Also random, Mandi sent me these gems a few days ago!
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