Early January Doings....

So, it has been nearly a year since I've posted here. Lots of excuses, but none of them really good enough.

I've begun reading the Book of Mormon again and was struck while reading the intro that God found it VERY important to record certain things for his children. In fact it says he did so "that they might not be destroyed." Now, yes, I know that could also mean that the plates were hid so they weren't destroyed. But this time when I read it, God wanted it to mean something different to me. I had a very strong impression that it will be spiritually important for my children to have a good record of their childhood.

 So, I'm going to do better. There are a few things that hold me back:

1. My busy schedule.
2. My lack of energy when I do finally have "personal time" 
3. My perfectionism...I don't want to post anything that isn't "book worthy." 
4. I want to go back and post everything I've missed before moving on.

I'm really going to work on #3. My posts won't be perfect, or beautiful, but they will be here. I may not turn all this into a book for years and years. But I'm going to post and it will at least be here for them to read someday.

And #4 is just keeping me from posting anything.  And I'd rather miss an entire year than two, so I'm just skipping last year for now.  Maybe I'll get back to it eventually....

But for now, here are a few of our doings from last week:

We played a bunch of fun games with tape. Things like tic tac toe with bean bags and drawing a target on the ground with tape. But the overall favorite was the spider web. Here is the before:

and the after:

Hannah started potty training (she's been ready for months...I just keep putting it off):

Potty Power!

Cory and Brandon took the boys to a BYU Volleyball game.  They had a great time.  Noah walked in the door at 9:00 and said "Mom, Do you know which team won?!?!"  And then in his best deep, loud, crazy fan voice with fists pumping in the air said "THE BYU COUGARS DID!"

And our house is making progress!  They've poured the foundation and put in the underground plumbing.  Next week they will do backfill and start framing!  If everything goes according to schedule, we should have a beautiful new home by March 15th!  Yay!

Samantha had her first every ponytail:

  and LOVED showing it off:

The girls and I played while the boys were away at the Volleyball game:

No wonder I get asked more often if the girls are twins than if they boys are!