Lately...

So it's been quite sometime since I posted anything, and I wanted to let you all know that we are alive :).  We had a great Christmas and New Years! (though we did miss out on all the fun you guys had in Utah...)  Wes and I actually stayed up till midnight on New Year's Eve, and then got up at 6 with the kids the next morning- yup, I don't miss staying up late at all haha! For New Year's Day we took both the kids and saw Frozen which we all LOVED.  Mckay and Lyla were both soo good throughout the entire movie; I just cannot believe how grown up both of them are.  We then set a record for movies seen at the movie theater in one year because Wes and I got to go see Catching Fire for our anniversary and it was AWESOME!

Anyways, here are some of the other things we've been up to of late...

My little stud the first day of sunbeams. I cannot believe he's old enough to be a sunbeam already! He also told me he was going to grow up to be a princess after class. There are 7 girls in his class and then him...he got confused lol 

Mckay started swim lessons in December and he will resume them in february. Despite his face in this picture, he absolutely LOVES swimming and is doing super well! He'll swim by himself the 3 feet to the edge of the pool when his teacher asks him too :) We are blessed to have our community rec center so close by.  Their classes are so cheap!

Mom requested some Christmas pictures...we didn't take very many. Sorry mom :)

So I've never really had someplace to hang up clothes I didn't want to dry besides my door frames (sooo annoying), so when we found this adjustable flag pole holder at Home Depot for $6 I was pretty excited :). We just stuck a wooden dowel in it, mounted it opposite my washer and dryer, and...

voila! A disappearing drying rack haha. I am pretty excited about this dumb thing, I won't lie.

My new throw pillows made from cutting a king pillow in half...get on yours Marie!

I've been wanting to do this ever since I saw it on pinterest. Snow painting with hot water mixed with food coloring. We had a lot of fun playing in the snow.  We haven't had too much of it yet this winter :)