Thursday's guitar day!

 Cathy Winter was such a fun addition to our Thursdays!  She came every Thursday evening and taught a 1/2 hour guitar lesson to Parker.  I loved preparing dinner while listening to Cathy teach and encourage my son.  He learned so quickly so it wasn't long before we had Praise music strumming in our living room.  Best first instrument ever!

We all had fun listening to Parker's first recital at our home~ he did awesome!  Parker was relieved he only had to perform in front of family members instead of at the BIG spring recital.

Thanks Cathy for doing such an amazing job teaching our son~ you are talented with kids and on the guitar!

NEW family portraits

It is safe to say that 1 of the 5 of us LOVES getting family pictures taken.  That would be... me!  The odds were not for me and neither were the conditions, it was 16* and super sunny.  Hence the squinty eyes!!!  But I am super pleased to say we all had a great time and even Rosco cooperated.  My good friend, Carrie Lambing, did a great job and I LOVE the results!

backcountry as a fam!

It's been awesome to have our kids getting more independent on skis because now we can go backcountry skiing as a family!

It's a TON of work for Kep!  I don't know how he pulls Savannah up these mountains but he loves to do whatever it takes to get his family up in Hatchers!

Kep and Parker~ they bring a whole new truth to "like father, like son".  They both love to build and work!  It's pretty sweet to climb up the mountain and then have them build us a bench in the snow!

Mrs. Gail~ we LOVE her!!!

 Noah and Parker LOVE going to Mrs. Gail's art class.  Infact, I think it's safe to say it is their favorite day of the week.  Mrs. Gail is an amazing artist and she is very talented at teaching the kids how to become one as well.  She is just so FUN and hilarious.  The boys' favorite art project was their paper mache animals.  They could create any item and they both surprised me with their choice: rhino and narwhal.  OK then!  We had just read about narwhals in school so Noah thought their spear tooth was crazy cool!

Savannah got to join in on some of the art classes when I would stay and help so all 4 of us got to enjoy art this year!