Life Lately in January

It is February!  We have made it past the dreaded January.   We've had too many snow days, I mean the whole city was shut down for a week.  

The month of love has begun and we've been hard at work making Valentine crafts.  Amy especially likes the heart stickers and Leo loves to paint.  They've been happily showing off their creations. 

 

Well, I've spent the past couple of weeks being sick, classic January, right.  I was really sick last week and actually went in to the doctor and had several tests run.  I was just starting to feel better and was hit with a sinus infection.  It's funny though, I'm usually sick in January (because it's January) and it really brings me down but I don't feel that sad about it this year.  Must be that Vitamin D I've been taking.  The kids have all been sick too, colds, and then Amy caught pink eye. The joys of January.  We are all healthy and well now. 

My glass studio is finished!  I moved most everything down last night and I am so excited.  I'll post more pictures when things are a little more put away.  I never dreamed I'd have a space in my house that I could do glass.  I can just picture all the beautiful things I am going to create there.  Heber spent a lot of hours framing, sheetrocking, putting lights in, painting.  It really is so nice.  You ought to come over to see it sometime. 

In the last month, Heber and I have been out on two dates.  I can't even believe it. We even arranged for a baby sitter to come.  Pretty momentus.  We went to Star Wars for the first. The second we had a throwback date to our old days.  We went to Red Lobster for dinner (channeling the old Sizzler in Logan) and then went bowling.  When we lived in Logan, there weren't many things to do on all those winter nights, you know, all 8 months of them.  Bowling was one thing we could do. 

Back in January, we took the kids to the National Zoo.  Amy is a real animal lover and we wanted to a special activity around her birthday.  She was beyond excited to be there.  Leo was cold.  I mean, it was cold for Virginia standards. 

I have been singing quite a bit lately.  Over the last month, I've sung three times.  It feels good to be back to singing.  And I got another calling and have begun to teach the Relief Society sisters every month.  It's a fun change. 

The kids have decided to sleep.  This month, we've have these things called evenings and full nights of sleep that we don't quite recognize but could really get used to. 

We made it through yet another January and I think it was, dare I say it, actually a good one.  It must be all that sleep I've been getting lately.   Whatever it is, I'll take it!  On to February!