The Salchow

Family Outing

Saturday we went to the Salk Lake library for a 3ds meetup. Then we went to the Philadelphian for dinner and then headed to Midway to see the Ice Castles. It was freezing cold and we all froze our butts off, but it was neat to see. I thought we would be waiting in line forever because the line was so long but it moved really fast. We were able to watch some fire dancers while we waited. Afterwards we went and got hot chocolate, coffee, and donuts. So yummy! It was a great day and all the kids were awesome and well behaved. 

Elvis Presley

Aurora read a biography about Elvis Presley at school and made an art project so that she could tell her class what she learned. As you can see Elvis is on the stage singing and all the girls are fainting. When she brought this project home I thought what a cleaver idea. She loves art and is usually found at the kitchen table doing some sort of art.

New Year's Eve

This year we decided to let the kids stay up late with us to ring in the New Year. In years past we have sent them to bed because we wanted to go to bed ourselves. But this year the kids really wanted to stay up. So we put together a ginger bread house kit my sister and her family gave us and we played video and board games. Then we watched some Modern Family until it was time to watch the ball drop on the T.V. Logan made it to eleven before he put himself to bed. He is so good at knowing when he needs to sleep or when it is time to change activities. He is good at setting limits; I just hope he keeps that behavior up.

Christmas Morning

We had a wonderful Christmas day this year. The kids were all happy with what they received. Avery was excited with what he got and still has dreams of having a treehouse  and a water slide into a pool. Aurora keeps saying that her favorite gift was the robe she is wearing in the pictures. And Logan was excited with every gift he received. He would oooh and aaaah at every gift. He jumped up after unwrapping a Christmas light box, thinking we bought him lights. We had to tell him to look in the box where he would find his actual present. The rest of the day was spent playing with all the new things and just relaxing.

Family Visit

Some of my family came to visit the weekend before Christmas for my sister in-laws birthday. We spent Friday evening at City Creek and Temple Square. We also went to dinner at the Olive Garden. We had a great visit.

Brittney and I ice skating. Brittney enjoyed it so much the first time that she wanted to go again.

Cousin's playing while Brittney shopped.

Santa

We had our condo Christmas party last weekend. We had a nice time visiting with neighbors. I think this might be the last year I can get Avery to sit on Santa's lap because he felt really silly. Avery is growing up so fast. Logan was also a little shy this year.