All of January

We had an enjoyable month in January.  We were busy enough that we avoided downtime tantrums but not to busy that we didn't enjoy our lives.  When we go back from Utah I felt overwhelmed with messy closets and rooms and had lots of new toys and stuff to find places for.  I spent the first week cleaning out closets and organizing rooms.  I think I spent that whole week in sweats but the cleaning finally got done and I took a bunch of stuff to the DI.

Paul started his pediatric rotation in January.  He was with a doctor whose office was really close so he came home for lunch most days.  The doctor was always on time too so Paul was always home by 5 pm.  It was a nice rotation schedule wise but I'm pretty sure Paul brought home germs from all those sick kids.  We were constantly sick the whole month, my kids had coughs that lasted over 3 weeks long.  Paul even got super sick and had to miss one day of work.  We are finally all better (knock on wood) and hopefully will stay that way for awhile.

Leila finally graduated out of nursery, it seems like she had been in nursery forever.  I was so excited for her first week in Sunbeams and since I was just called to teach the Valiant 9 I got to watch her during opeining exercises.  It was so cute to see her sitting there trying to be reverant and folding her arms and singing.  I also love to see her come down the hall with her class to get a drink, she is always walking so reverently and folding her arms.  They tell me she is really good, which is always nice to hear.  I think she is mostly good because she is so shy and terrified to get in trouble with her teacher.  Leila loves going to to Sunbeams and asks everyday when its "church day".  We also got her, her own Book of Mormon stories book and loves reading it everynight.  The other thing she gets excited about is FHE, and if I make the mistake of telling her its FHE that is all I hear about all day long so I usually don't tell her until right before.  She loves planning the activity and treat and picking songs.  Its fun having her so excited about the gospel and it makes sure we always have FHE. 

Leila had a field  trip to Red rock Canyon and got to learn all about the animals and plants that live there.  The weather was beautiful except for the super cold wind.  But we still had lots of fun.   Leila also got invited to go see Disney on Ice with her friend Paisley.  We had a blast seeing all the disney characters. 

We spent a lot of time playing at the park and enjoying our beautiful weather.  We usually just walk over to our little neighborhood park and meet a bunch of our friends over there.  Leila rides her bike there so she can ride bikes with her friends at the park.  Greydon loves playing on the playground, going down the slide, and making mommy nervous by trying to jump off the top of the playground equipment. 

Paul and I were able to go on several date nights thanks to our babysitting co-op.  One night we went to dinner at Joe's Crab Shack with Rachele and Jordan and then out for frozen yogurt and the other night we went out Go-cart racing and out to dinner at SmashBurger.  The go-cart racing was so much fun.  On the first race my head stocking kept falling over my eyes and at one point I couldn't see and crashed into the wall so hard that my helmet flew off.  The next day I was really sore but it was totally worth it.  We also went out one night with a bunch of our ward friends to celebrate Sadie's birthday.  We went to India Palace and the food was delicious and the company was tons of fun.  We were able to go to our ward temple night too, it was really nice to have so many nights out with Paul.  I was able to go to lunch with my friends at Pei Wei to celebrate Nikki's birthday and got to book club at Casie's house.  I'm so thankful for such good friends and have so much fun with them.

My mom game to visit the end of January.  We spent one of the days pulling out the caulk in my shower and recaulking it.  It's so nice to have it all fixed, no holes and water not getting onto our bathroom floor.  We went birthday shopping, out to eat, prepared for Leila's birthday and went to the Children's museum.  Once night we celebrated Leila's birthday early, we went out to dinner at Red Robin, had cupcakes and opened presents.  Leila got clothes, a new suitcase and a puzzle game.  Leila loves that suitcase and every time I turn around she is packing it up for her pretend trips to Utah. 

 And last I just had to throw in some cute pictures of Grey.  He likes to say "cheese" for the camera and I just love his cheesey smile.