The Utah Winter Life

As I mentioned in an earlier post, life has been more tricky this winter with not being able to go outside as often as we did in AZ. Arizona winters included countless trips to the park, long afternoon walks/runs, trips to the zoo, and a lot of playing in the backyard. Dreamy, right? 

Well now we are stuck indoors all. the. time. and it's making me a little cookoo.  So instead, this winter we are building forts with large boxes, playing toys, blocks, baking and doing workouts indoor (which I don't love very much). But we are surviving and just trying to wait patiently to find out what warm place we get to move to in less than 5 months!

Brenna loves unloading all the toys out of those bins.

K & G doing wall sits with me as part of and
indoor workout.

We built a lego ship. They were pretty in to it.

Kimbri's facial expression! Ha!

Brenna loves sitting in things.

Also, being in this yucky winter weather has
brought sickness... booo!!!

So I have a story about this picture of Kimbri with those two jackets. We were in Walmart and we walked past the rack of jackets in the background of the pic and Kimbri just about died wanting one of these jackets. I seriously felt like she had immediately transformed into a teenager right then. \

Kimbri: "Mom, this jacket it SO fluffy! It is SO soft! Can we get it, PLEASE?!" 

Me: "No, we just got you a coat not too long ago."

Kimbri: "Well we can get it for me for next year. Please?!"

Me: "No Kimbri. We can't get that jacket. Please come on, we need to finish getting the rest of our groceries."

Kimbri: "But mom, it was look so cute on me! Please can we just get it?" 

By this point I felt two things. One, I really wanted to get her a jacket because she was seriously so in love with them. But two, we really did just buy her a way nicer coat that was on clearance at Sam's Club, one size bigger, so she could have a good coat for next year. We also stocked up on winter clothes for next year recently cause Walmart has been putting all the winter clothes (pants and long shirts) on sale for $2-3. So that's where she got the whole, "let's get it for next year" idea. Haha!

I finally said, "How about I take a picture with you and the jackets so that you can look at them and remember them when we get home."

She seemed to be fine with that. Ha!

A Sunday morning of baking
cinnamon chip muffins and crepes.

Celebrating my dad's 53rd birthday!
(Bridger, Oaklee, Kimbri, Luke, Garrett,
Grandma, Brenna, Ava, Grandpa & Hadley)

Warm bread, made by RICK, is the perfect thing for winter
months when you just want something warm and yummy :)

So much snow!!

The bus didn't come because of too much snow so we
carefully drove Kimbri to school! Also, that was my hat when
I was little :)

A little snow?? We have gotten dumped on lately!

Trying out her easy back oven she got for Christmas.
She made mint brownies.