What's New Witchu??

There's not a whole lot new going on here...typical winter I suppose.  We're all cold and sick and hunkering around the house in blankets and waiting anxiously for spring.  We've tried to do some fun stuff though:

Surfing on a block of ice?  I have no idea.  Dad just loves taking pictures no matter what they're doing.

I *tried* to be a creative mom by making some snow art with the kiddos.

We used our free meal certificates and went to Chick-Fil-A.  Munchkin loved the cow.  Buddy Boy did not.

And that's what's going on in the Cox household.

GDO and Star Wars

Hmmm...what is GDO?  It's simple, really.  Girls Day Out.  See, Munchkin and I don't do girls nights out because that would put us past our bedtime.  But last Saturday we had a great girls DAY out! 

We started off at Hauser Comics in Midvale for a Star Wars meet n' greet:

After we'd spent an hour and a half being educated in all things regarding the Force, we went to Walmart to spend the gift card Timmy got us for Christmas (thanks Timmy!).  Some good girl-bonding, shopping is.  Akaila got herself a new pair of shoes.  We still had 30 minutes until our next planned activity, so we killed some time at Iceberg eating a cookies n cream shake. (No pictures, we were too busy stuffing our faces and getting brain freeze).  To finish off, we went and saw Tangled. 

Such a fun girls day out...we both were sad when it ended.  Luckily, Dad and Parker wanted to do some fun stuff when we got back, so the kids and Clay spent some quality time in the playroom doing crazy silly stuff.

Wednesday's Pictures

Munchkin took a dozen of these pictures to see if I could guess the emotion on her face. :-)

Our Holidays

Sorry I haven't updated in awhile.  I spend most of my online time working on my other blog.

Anyway, we had a great Christmas and New Years!  Akaila started the new year off right, by being baptized on Jan 1st.  It was awesome.  Aunt Mae was able to fly out and be with us, and that made things extra special.

First though, let me share some of our Christmas with you:

Christmas started 2 days early at our house when Akaila found the therapy swing we'd bought them.  Totally my fault, I didn't hide it good enough.  When she found out it was a Christmas surprise she started to cry cause she felt guilty about "ruining Christmas".  To cheer her up, I set the dang thing up right then and there, and the kids played with it!

The kids loved their kitchen playset, and I loved my 3-part crockpot (even though Clay and I weren't supposed to get gifts for each other)!

At school, Akaila enjoyed dressing up in her Hawaii dress and singing Hawaiin Christmas songs; Parker enjoyed getting tons of treats from Santa and his school buddies!

Then of course, on New Year's Day we celebrated with Akaila's baptism.  It was a wonderful day filled with friends, family, and LOVE: