Some Fun during those drab winter months

Kali and I got out quite a bit during the beginning of this year with the kids.

There was a cold week that we really needed a day out of the house and decided it would be an adventure to drive over to the train station- just a minute from my house- and ride the train an hour and a half to Ogden to check out a children's museum.

For those of you in Utah you may remember there was an unusual day with freezing rain that made everything super slippery. More accidents than I can ever remember happened on that day. We saw several on the freeway from the train.

Walking the two and half blocks to the museum was pretty funny. We tried to iceskate the whole way....it was a very slippery walk. Luckily we didn't fall over (due to the strollers), in fact we laughed the whole way.

The kids really enjoyed this cute treehouse museum!

I also got some pictures of the dinosaur museum...

And after the museum we wandered through Thanksgiving Points cute little shops until we found the indoor garden I remebered they had. Such a nice break to 'pretend' we were outside in the warmth!

my girl always 'speedwalks' haha

We also did Cabellas for the free fish viewing and fudge samples, yum!

these guys are fascinated with sharks

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We checked out the Traverse outlets after Cabella, they have some great clearance deals in the kids stores!

Now onto the warm day activities! :)

A bit more Christmas...

the cookie decorating procession

helping aunt stefi

Enjoying their hard work

chasing me down the hill :)

sledding with Kasi and Grandpa (she loves her grandpa!)

Christmas morning, that's an "Ooooo" on her lips

we kept it simple this year with just a couple fun things

her new camera. She told everyone/everything to 'say cheese' all morning...too cute!

going down grandpa's big hill again. This is kasi's vinyl movie poster- haha

my pretty babe tired out after all that Christmas fun!

Christmastime

There are so many things to do during Christmastime. December is such a blast :)

We started off just a few days after Thanksgiving by going to see Savior of the World. This is a such a beautiful play that the church puts on. It is by far my favorite way to get into the true spirit of Christmastime.

We also hit the Festival of Trees, but I forgot to pull out the camera. Kali and I hurried through with the strollers trying to see how much we could get through before the babies really got tired of it. It was just over half with the help of a caramel apple. Yum.

Zoo Lights. This was too cute. All the moving light displays, the reindeer, and the night animals that were all up. Some of our fav's were the white wolf, the roaring tiger, the seals were very much on the go, as were the bats--fascinating, though they looked an awful lot like vampires. We didn't get to see the polar bears though, but our friends, the Summer's, were awesome and gave us a family pass to the zoo for next year- we are so excited!

 Kambri absolutely loves curious george and all monkeys that resemble him

Santa's reindeer

Yesterday we went to the Thanksgiving Point Santa Breakfast, this is tradition because my mom does the photography. So far it's also tradition for Kambri to have a near heart attack on Santa's lap. She still hates any strange or scary looking men.

why dad, why? Even Dextin wasn't a fan and he loves Santa

high five for santa, that's as close as she would get if she had the choice

happy to be done, notice the tear?

heartbreaking, someday she'll like santa right?

Dad felt bad and gave her candy to make up for it

The frontrunner had a free day (as long as you brought a can of food) so we took advantage and headed up to city creek! Nice to only drive two minutes to the station. The kids were so excited for the train.

couldn't help but hold on to her, it was so crowded our 'window' was actually a door....scary.

The City Creek play area. This was too funny. Dextin had a bit of Dr. Pepper....he was a wild man, running, dancing, skipping, pushing others to go if necessary, busy, busy, for about a half an hour....then he collapsed on the floor in exhaustion. Kambri on the other hand hated how many people were there, she timidly wandered around trying to stay out of everyone's way and doing her best to keep up with Dextin, the only kid she knew...fail...she had had no Dr. Pepper.

Dextin did stop for a minute and grab her hand to pull her along, too cute.

We are looking forward to more parties and activities this week. Love Christmastime!!