January 2023 - Disneyland Surprise

Somehow Alexa is already old enough to go to the temple so we had a wonderful time going to both the Provo City Center and Draper Temples in January. City Center is her favorite temple so that's what she chose for her first temple trip. I looked over at my little girl with her makeup and high heeled strappy sandals and wondered when she grew up.

Dad lives in the outbuilding (not literally, just doing lots of construction) so the other kids and I went to see Puss in Boots to close out winter break.

For our date this month Liam and I made a 3D rocket ship. He is obsessed with rocket ships and always draws pictures of us going to the moon in one.

Baby Audrey had her baby blessing in January. Marmie and Grandpa were here for Ellie Tate's baptism and Grandma and Grandpa Sweeny flew out for the blessing. Marmie got her a beautiful blessing dress with a bonnet and long train.

Audio Link to Audrey's blessing:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Uw7mMP2kOPl0ncx9H5SUDZyXWRw_vPAu/view?usp=sharing

Misc photo dump:

Baby Audrey at Tyler's basketball game

Harlem looooves baby Audrey

Olivia, Roman, Tad, and Charlotte building a Duplo tower

Aunt Chelsey and Harlem loving on Audrey

Audrey's "crazy eyes" that we all love

Happy chubby baby girl

Liam drew a ladybug :)

Bath time with Liam, Nathan, and Audrey

More crazy eyes :)

Audrey snuggling with Dad

Liam and Nathan playing with Grandpa

Big blue eyes

Liam holding Audrey

Mom working from home while Dad was at Disneyland

Grandma Sweeny and Audrey

Nathan insisted on bringing his little basketball to Tyler's game.

Audrey threw up all over Mom :)

Cute baby girl

Nathan the famous singer

Alexa and Nathan taking a selfie

Nathan the crazy 2 year-old

Tyler was devastated by the loss of his beloved hamster, Chubby. He was refilling his food and Todd & Melissa's cat jumped in and got him out of the cage. I noticed the hamster in the cat's mouth when he walked past me downstairs and immediately yelled for Tyler but it was too late. Tyler cried hard.

Our good friend, Jeff, works at Disney+ and invited Kyle, Alexa, and Tyler to go with him and his son to Disneyland. We knew for about 6 weeks but didn't tell the kids. We picked them up early from school and told them they had an orthodontist appointment in Provo, but really drove straight to the airport. It was SO fun to surprise them! They had an absolute blast. Marmie and Grandpa met them at the park for one of the days. It made me want to surprise them with things more often, it was really fun.

Video of the surprise:

https://youtu.be/RdlYAm3UvX8

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