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For Conference Sunday we thought that it would be fun to make some cookies and take them to some of our ward neighbors, so I made a ton of gingerbread missionaries. I thought that the kids would like to decorate them and Russell loved it Autumn just got frustrated. 

Then on Monday night we taught the kids all about putting on the whole armor of God. Russell understands the whole knight in shining armor and the armor protects from the bad things, so he loved this and he had lots of questions and we explained each word. If you look close you can see Chad was shooting him with "the fiery darts of the wicked"  

Easter

We had a great Easter! Saturday we had a good time decorating some eggs, They loved it! 

We waited till after Church when it was nicer to do the egg hunt, and it was beautiful outside. Autumn needed a little help, she wanted to open the eggs and put the candy in her basket and leave the egg on the ground. We got her to just find and put the eggs in her basket. They loved it!

Russell is 4

Russell got a new bike for his Birthday! He was pretty excited and has ridden it around the garage almost every day since.

 He wanted to have a monkey cake, so we went for it! And so he got a jungle birthday party!

 He also said that they monkey had to be eating a banana.

 We played lots of games at his party and one of them had balloons, and this was Russell helping us move them all to the kitchen before the party. There was just under 79 balloons. He was really proud that he was able to hold six at a time.

 We had a monkey pinata, it was wild!

 We also played pin the banana on the monkey. They did a good job.

Autumn is 2

We had a wild crazy day, we went and did a build and grow, went to a cave, and went swimming and then ended the day with a spaghetti dinner birthday gifts and a Minnie mouse cake.  Autumn had a blast!

 She loved all of her gifts and has been very good at sharing them all with Russell.

 She did really well at blowing out her candles.

 She is showing off her new Minnie PJs that Grandma Johnson made for her.

 Russell is giving her a last good night birthday hug, it was so powerful it took them to the ground and they rolled around like this for a min or two.

Keeping busy

This was a couple of weeks ago, it snowed and then as it was melting it was perfect for making snowmen. So we made plenty. The 4 of us are the snowmen on the left side of the house and the two on the right are guarding the house.  Chad thought that it was very creepy looking, It was, Ha ha                                                     

 Russell playing dress up again, This is his knight in shining armor look.

 

 Autumn is of course a potty training super hero.

 We have only done two Valentine crafts so far, this is a Valentine lady bug. 

 This is a Valentine Dog. 

Russell skiing

Russell started his ski class yesterday. He caught on quickly and by the end of his class was doing quite well without much assistance. He had a need for speed and kept giggling and saying "I'm so fast!" Even after a few crashes he had a good time. We stayed until closing time and he still wanted to go more. Chad was skiing backwards and filming him at the top of the "bunny hill."

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

 Chad made the kids this table. They got the chairs from previous holidays from Grandpa Fowers. They went quite well together and the kids insisted on sitting there for every meal today.

 The clouds rolled in a few days ago and we enjoyed a White Christmas.

We took full advantage of the snow and went sledding. It was great. The sun was shining and it was a calm 26 degrees. Couldn't have asked for better.

Uncle David got a GoPro for Christmas and went sledding with us. This is what it looks and sounds like strapped to Russell's head. As you can tell, he had a good time. Make sure your sound is turned up.