Celebrating January

In some ways the month of January can be kind of a let down. The holidays are over and it's back to work, back to school, and back to everyday life. But I was thinking about it, and the truth is that I LOVE my everyday life...so getting back to it is not such a bad thing. While I miss my kids and Dave like crazy while they are away at school and work...we end up having so much fun when we are together it makes it all O.K.
So our January was awesome. We took advantage of the gorgeous weather (most of the month the temps were between 65-70 degrees) and spent a ton of time outside. We took a couple of day-trips to some cool places in our area, did a lot of bike riding, and spent a lot of time at the park.

Oh, and Eden had her first bubble bath...
Like I said, this month was awesome.

Day-trip #1: Lake Las Vegas

Pretty cool...

This picture is funny to me because it is so bright...we

are staring strait into the sun. If you notice Emily is literally

holding her eye-lids open for the picture...and Justin is doing the

smart thing and just looking the other direction.

The view

Sad that we couldn't go ice skating.

There were cool fountains all over this place.

Emily is such a poser...she didn't even have money to

throw in...she just saw that I was about to take a picture of her

and she pulled this pose really quick. She's funny like that.

Day-trip #2: Hoover Dam

Very cool...

Holy cow, that's steep.

Awwwww.

Dave showing Justin where Megatron used to live.

(Justin hasn't seen the movie, but he has a picture

book based on it so he knows all about how the U.S.

government hid Megatron in Hoover Dam until he escaped

and was eventually "befeated" by the Autobots.)

Family picture. (Thank you Nice Stranger for offering.

Dave and I would never get family pics if it weren't for

people like you...we never like to ask. :) )

This bridge is going to span that huge gap that runs

parallel to the dam. It is gonna be so freaky to drive

across when it's done! We can hardly wait.

We took this picture of the same bridge two years ago.

It's kind of cool to see the progress...

The kids got their first real bikes in December.

They've had so much fun riding...

Emily didn't get training wheels with her new bike. We

told her she was 7 and needed to learn how to ride without them.

I expected it to take awhile for her to figure it out...but she

learned within half-an-hour. Dave and I were so proud.

(The whole stopping and starting thing can still be a little tricky for her though.)

We took A LOT of trips to the park this month.

Here are a few pictures from just one of them.

Eden flying at our favorite "butterfly park."

She really loves to swing.

Monkey

Airplane

Angel