January 2016 - Monster hunting and lego robotics

Payge is awesome, and she knows it! This was taken while trying to keep kids clean before church on a cold Sunday morning. Unfortunately, none of the other pictures turned out.

While mommy and the big kids are at karate, Quinton and Lillyth became monster hunters. Dad would make shadow monsters with they would defend the house from. But herein is a lesson for life - if you turn your attention elsewhere, the monsters you think are there disappear. Most problems are only there when you look for them.

Quinton insisted on going snowshoeing, but we didn't have snowshoes his size, so he settled on walking in the snow with trekking poles.

While Jillian, Zachary, Chayce, and Payge were in Hawaii, I took Quinton to swimming lesson. Lillyth wandered the rec center being cute.

After swim, I was trying to get Quinton dry and dress, but this lady kept running away. So I put her in an upper locker, took care of Quinton, and then we could leave.

Somebody wants to be big.

While the rest of the family was in Hawaii, we visited grandma Tueller's house.

Rawwr. I a di-a-saur.

While the kids were with grandma, I snowshoed the peak south of Geneva pass. 

Lillyth and grandma Tueller.

After grandma's house, we went to visit aunt Effie and cousin Rogan in Twin Falls.

January was the competition for our lego robotics team. We won the design competition. This was taken at the awards ceremony. We think Chayce had a crush on a teammate. The sentiment was not reciprocated.