Dance Family

Saturday, January 4, 2020

Kenzie's Trying to Tell Us Something...

me if I had a dog vs. me right now

A dog added to our family picture.

Are (Our) dog Paws.

I think maybe she really wants a dog :)

Even More Skating

The Merrill's invited us to go skating again, so of course we had to say yes :) We also skated with the Schofields and Adams family. It was so much fun!

T-rex and Coleman

Eve, Damon, Jackson

Kenzie also brought her friend Allie.

Coleman, Kenzie, Allie

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

On New Year's Eve we went to my parents' house and partied with them and Ashlee, Konrad, Alli, and Camryn. We played games, ate yummy food, did puzzles, and watched sports and the New Years Eve countdown shows. It was a great day! We spent the night at my at parents house and did the same things the next day. Other than the countdown shows of course.

Kenzie got a bird feeder for Christmas and it's been so fun to have birds flying around all the time. It took them awhile to start flying into the bird feeder. There's usually some food on the deck so they would just eat that, but now there's often one in the feeder too now. I also like learning which birds are coming. So far we've identified a lot of Dark-eyed Juncos, a House Finch, and a Steller's Jay.

Hearts

Misc. Pictures From December

Jordan took an online car class this month and so I have lots of pictures of the inside of the car.

He also took this picture... It's really weird :)

Jordan and Jackson made these gingerbread houses in their baked good class at co-op.

Kenzie drew herself a nativity scene.

Doug and I always write different names on our gift tags to each other ones like to Leaf, from Sienna, or to basketball from volleyball. It keeps things interesting and is a tradition passed on from my parents. Jordan likes it and made up his own for his siblings. For Kenzie he wrote to Henry Huggins, from Harry Potter.

We went to see the musical lights in Maple Valley.

Jordan made a water filter for his engineering class.

Doug and I went to Bellevue for a weekend without the kids. We saw Jumanji 2, ate out, shopped at the mall, and watched several Christmas movies. When we ate at the Cheesecake Factory, it was at the same time as Snowflake lane so while we waited for our table we went out and watched the snow fall. We were glad we got there before Snowflake Lane was over because as soon as it was over the wait time at Cheesecake Factory tripled.

Our freezer broke so we got a new and improved fridge! We love it! It seems to keep our food more fresh and it has so much more room.

Doug invented something at work and got it patented! We went to Taco Time to celebrate.

Kenzie got an email address and instant messaging on google. She was able to talk to Nati and after declared she missed Nati even more. She immediately sat down and drew a picture of Nati and her typing to each other:

Kenzie and Coleman snuggled up watching Rudolph together.

Kenzie and I went to Ashlee's ornament party. We had so much fun and came home with some cute ornaments!

Jordan loves playing Doug's new exercise game, Ring Fit Adventure.

Kenzie is still missing Nati so much and is excited to see her in about a month!

Coleman came downstairs yesterday and saw me undecorating the Christmas tree. He said "that's dumb." I told him that wasn't very nice especially since I was doing something nice by taking the lights off myself instead of having him do it. He said he wanted to do it. So I let him help. And I told him we had to do it since the yard waste people were going to be picking it up in the morning, so he didn't think it was quite so dumb:)

New Sunday Clothes

The kids all got new church clothes for Christmas. Jackson and Coleman have been wearing too short of pants for quite awhile (although Coleman has some longer ones, but he didn't like how they fit in the waste.) The previous week, Doug's aunt, Cindy, stopped me and said he and another lady in the ward had a good chuckle over Coleman's outfit. His pants were a couple inches short, he had low Mario socks on, his vest and shirt didn't go well together. He was quite the site :) Kenzie wanted a long sleeve dress so she'd be warmer. And Jordan's been wearing the same outfit for at least 2 years I think and was ready for a normal black pants/white shirt and tie look.

They all look great!

It was Jordan's last day in primary. He's so excited to go to Young Men's and get the priesthood next Sunday.

More Roller Skating

We went roller skating again last Friday. The time, Alli and Cam, the Winters, and Merrills joined us. It was so fun!

Coleman brought $5 so he could play the games.

Kenzie, Cam, Alli

Doug came with us. When we were doing the Hokey Pokey, he said he doesn't remember ever doing the Hokey Pokey before! (Although Jordan reminding us that he did do it at a work party once.)