Our life in January

We kicked off the New Year by having a few of our friends over for a dinner and game night. 

The kids had a blast playing and dressing up.

 Bostyn was in heaven having Lucy to play with. They always give each other big hugs when they play.

The Gray family

The Arbon family

 We also had a White Elephant gift exchange, and this is what we came up with-Super padded bunny slippers!

 

Happy New Year woo hoo!

Bostyn is following in her sister's footsteps and loves to play in the cupboards.

This is a picture of Brooklyn close to the same age, playing in the cupboard too.

We have been trying to stay busy inside doing fun craft projects.

 Meet Mrs. Snowman. Brooklyn loves to do crafts and loves to cut and glue.

 This is also a favorite past time...make your baby sister push you around the house on her toy.

 But at least she returns the favor.

 We also made some goopy slime stuff. Brooklyn loved letting it run through her fingers.

 Bostyn still only has 4 teeth! I love the huge gap though!

 Back to the pots and pans of course.

 I love how cute they look on Sunday mornings.

 It has been SUPER cold here in January so we decided to bring one of our Pinterest ideas to life. 

We filled up balloons with colored water and set them outside to freeze for a few days.

 Our finished product! Brooklyn loved her ice marbles. 

They turned out pretty cool! It will definitely be something we make every winter.

 

 

We only live a few miles from the lake, so we decided to drive up and see how frozen it was. 

Needless to say it was frozen solid, so we ventured out a few feet to slide around. 

 It was sooo cold.

 She loved skating around the edges.

 This guy was much more brave than we were. He went zipping out into the middle of the lake and skated around. We thought he was nuts.

 Our old camera broke, so we finally got a new fancier one! Brooklyn loved letting me practice taking her pictures. 

 She kept telling me to take pictures of her dancing..

 Cute little Bostyn.  Thanks to a super fast shutter speed, I finally can get a picture of her before she runs away!

 More dancing, except this time she was Wendy from Peter Pan

 The sled dog races were coming through our area, and we were able to go see the mushers and their dogs during their vet checks. 

 She loved petting the dogs...That is until this dog stole her glove and she totally freaked out.

 After a few minutes she got her courage up to try again. She loves animals so much!

 Meanwhile Bostyn just quietly observed,

 and looked cute doing it.

 They both are pretty darn cute!

 Bostyn has totally developed her personality. She is always doing something funny, or making some silly face.

 These two really are best friends. They will just sit and look at each other and laugh. I hope they always stay this way growing up.

 Speaking of growing up, this girl is super duper smart and is obsessed with writing her name. She will write her name on any paper she finds laying around. Most of our doors currently have post it notes stuck to them with her name on them too. It's pretty cute, and I love that she loves to learn!