Jordan and Nathan's imaginations never cease to amaze me. Just when I think it's another dreary winter day they are busy building inventions or robots, crossing imaginary rivers or swimming in pretend pools. This is a picture of Jorji jumping off the diving board
into their pool. Check out that air!

The other day, Jared watched the kids while I went snowboarding. It was a much needed trip away from the house and kids for a day and it was such a treat. I didn't get back till early evening and that night while Iwas bathing the kids I asked Nathan " Hey Nate, did you miss me today?" His eyes started darting all over the room as if he was trying to find something to say and some type of distraction but all he could manage was "ummm.ummmm.ummm.ummm." Clearly he's panicking now because he doesn't want to hurt my feelings but at the same time doesn't want to lie, I let him off the hook. "Jordan , did you miss me today?" she responds somewhat the same "ummm, well kinda, we kinda missed you" obviously trying to spare my feelings. It was hilarious. I guess we all needed a break from eachother. Plus of course, spending a day with only dad playing would be a blast!

Swimming in the deep sea, yeah these kids go all out.

One of Jorji's latest inventions. Not quite sure what it was, but it required careful balance as to not drop the fish on top.

So I'll be the first to admit, that my blogging has been less than stellar this new year. I usually take a bit of a break in Jan and Feb because it usually takes all my energy simply to get through these couple of months and maintain my sanity with such little sunshine. However this hasn't been the case this year. We've all been in great spirits and very busy (in a good way). Jared's been coaching grade 8 boys basketball and so we've been going to his games weekly. Jared's amazing - he took this little motley-crue bunch and through hard work managed to turn them into a ball team to be reckened with, even qualifying to go to the North Zones. The kids have loved going to games and are a great cheering squad. Yesterday at church, Nathan recognized one of Jared's boys passing the sacrament and said "mom, look, GO SHUSWAP!" yeah, Nate, I agree, there needs to be more cheering at church. As you can see the kids have been busy being kids. We've been playing lots with little and big friends and Jordan's been busy with school activities. Jared and I both have been working out a lot these days and are feeling great! We've had a couple of great snowboarding days in with more to come this weekend as we are going to Silver Star with mom and dad to stay at their "little house." We're also planning a trip sans kids in March to Hawaii!! Yes, I know, we can't wait. So life is great.....especially for a February!