Lately

We did a little trim on Afton's hair.

Doing some light reading while the oil was getting changed in the car

Being a big kid

Peter went through a phase of eating only things he could feed himself. :/

Date with Grandpa Sundwall at Scheels

New shoes from said date with Grandpa

Happy morning kids

Lots of sibling love

Sweetest guy

Afton's little preschool group

Giving himself kisses

What she wore on the day she declared "Coronation Day" (which was probably the longest she has ever stayed in one outfit)

Poor guy bathes in a pink bath so I don't get many pictures of him in the bath. But this day he was just too happy to not snap a million pictures! His face is all wet from having so much fun splashing!

Pete found Afton "reading her scriptures" one morning. Usually she comes into our room immediately after she wakes up. But I guess this day she just had some pondering to do. :)

This is from Christmas, but Afton loves being around her cousins.

Ice Castles and Snow Men

Afton started talking about ice castles a couple weeks ago and constantly pretending that everything was an "ice castle". I have known about the Midway ice castles and was curious to see them but the tickets seemed so expensive and I wasn't sure it was worth it. But once Afton started taking interest in them I thought it might be worth going. My Grandma Davis sent me some money for my birthday and I decided this was the perfect family outing to spend it on! THANKS Grandma!!

Pete decided he could be done studying a little early on Friday and so I packed up dinner and we ate on our way to Midway. On weekends they have Elsa, Anna, & Kristoff there for the kids to meet, so that was an added plus! Of course, Afton was excited but then a bit shy once we got up close. It was a fun thing to do, and even though it was very cold we still had a fun time!

Pete is always so good about getting Afton all bundled up (even though she protests it the entire time) to go play out in the snow. She never thinks it sounds fun but always has a blast.

I came outside to take a picture before they were done. But since I didn't want to come back out again I made them take a picture before the snow man was finished. ha!

Last Hurrah

Each year we have a little tradition of staying a couple nights in Salt Lake after Christmas and before school starts back up again with the Sundwalls. We always have fun eating, shopping, and just hanging out.

The adults wanted to the newest Hunger Games so I stayed with the kids and we went and had a yummy Kneader's breakfast, played at the dinosaurs, saw the fountains, and fed the fish!

We took Afton ice skating for the first time. She was hesitant about doing it, although she had been talking about ice skating for a couple of months. I didn't want to push it since I knew it would just be torturous for everyone but when she decided she wanted to do it I jumped on board too. The family was all nice enough to trade off holding Baby Peter so we could go with her for a bit. She still wasn't so sure about how fun it was at the time but still talks about how fun she had ice skating!

It is always such a fun little getaway before real life hits us in the face after the holidays! Thanks Sundwalls!!

New Years Eve

Afton was excited to celebrate New Years Eve even though she didn't really get what we were celebrating. She is always up for a party!

We had a wonderful celebration for Boofie and Grandpa's 50th wedding anniversary during the day. Then on our way home we stopped at the dollar store to get some party supplies so we could party the rest of the night.

Afton had a pretty high fever and a bad cough leading up to this day and was feeling very crummy so we thought we wouldn't stay at the celebration for long. But when we got there she perked up and was a new person! On our way out the door Afton reminded us that she needed her microphone so she could sing the song she had been practicing for this occasion. I thought for sure she wouldn't want to perform since she had a raspy voice but when the grandkid presentations were ready to begin she wanted to go first! She sang "I Know My Savior Loves Me" so sweetly and Pete accompanied her on the piano. It was hard to hear her for a lot of it but I was so proud of our little two-year-old getting up there and performing in front of everyone! She is a keeper!

She sat through all the rest of the performances and ate up every minute! 

After, she ran around with Clara having the time of her life. 

She came home and crashed for a little bit and then was ready to ring in the new year. We had a dance party and threw confetti all over at 8:00pm and then called it a night. Perfect New Year's in my opinion!

For the record, Baby Peter was there for all this as well; mostly smiley and happy. He just wasn't as much of an Active Participant in the performing, playing, & partying :)

Flashback

I just found a bunch of pictures from back in September that were uploaded from Pete's phone. I guess I never saw them and didn't blog about them, but there was some pretty fun stuff that happened. So here is a little flashback of September.

Afton went bowling for the first time! It was with some friends of ours, the Julanders, and she loved it.

Can you see her happy dance afterword? (Even though the ball is headed straight for the gutter)

We hiked Ensign Peak on a VERY windy day

Pete presented his research

Cousin Clara came to visit. Which is ALWAYS fun! These two are only a couple months apart in age so they have a blast together.

Our neighborhood had the cutest fairy festival (its an annual thing they do each year in honor of a young girl who died years ago. They give the proceeds to a charity each year)

Afton took getting sprinkled with fairy dust VERY seriously.

Afton with a "real" fairy! (Bree)

Many of the houses in the neighborhood set up little fairy gardens in their yards. Afton and I had a blast walking around the neighborhood searching for hidden fairy houses and admiring all the cute ideas people came up with!

Visits to Grandma Connie Jean. I love that we have pictures of our kids with this wonderful woman!