January Recap

You would think because I spent all of December and most of January laying in bed that I would have found time to blog.  But when you are feeling miserable coming up with things to write just aren't at the top of my list.  Towards the end of January I finally started to feel like life was going to return to normal.  I am feeling much better and am very grateful for that.  So here are some of the fun things that actually happened in January

For part of Christmas the kids received a gift certificate for Pirate Island.  It is a new theme based restaurant and arcade.  So we ventured out one Monday night for Family Home Evening.

The food was good and the kids had a blast.  We were all ready for some fun as a family again.

Jessica and Ashley had their first official Dance Competition of the year.  They had a parent from every school help with organizing and helping with it.  I sent Mark to the meeting and he came home with the assignment to help with the Gift Baskets for the Judges and other Professionals that help with the event.  Luckily the other parent helping was great about asking for a lot of the donations.  Though we did pull our own and got some good things for the baskets.  Then Mark, Jessica and I spent a Friday night assembling 11 of them.  Mark even cut out vinyl for the boxes.  They looked really good.

The next day the girls performed and they both did amazing.  

Ashley danced the Foxtrot and Tango.  And Jessica was chosen as the All Around Dancer for level 2.  That meant she didn't know which dance she would perform until she was on the dance floor and they pulled it out of a hat.  She ended up dancing the Cha Cha and the Merengue.  

I'm so impressed my girls are learning to ballroom dance and they both love it and do it well.

The surprise of the month was when we woke up to a winter wonderland.  We live in Utah, we get snow all the time.  But it doesn't look like this all the time.

Every thing was flocked in snow.  It was beautiful!

And we finished the month out by going to the Circus!  They come every year and we have gone in the past, but it had been a few years.  John really wanted to go, so when we found a great coupon in the newspaper I agreed we could all go.

We got there early enough to get some good seats.  We saw the elephants and tigers.

And some of the performers practiced right by where we were sitting so we got a front row view.

But John's favorite was definitely the motorcycles in the cage.

It was a fun night and all the kids really enjoyed it.