A Bit of January to share

FRIENDS
I love how silly boys can be when you ask them if you can take a picture of them! These are Evan's little friends. They get together once or twice a week to play geo-trax, trains, lincoln logs, cars and anything that might involve fighting. I'm so glad that Evan has such good, cute, fun friends from such great families. Unfortunately, when they moved up from Nursery to Sunbeams (into Primary) they were all put into 3 different classes. Can you believe it? We have 30 Sunbeams (3 classes)! Since they can't get together on Sunday's we are FORCED to get them together during the week. It works our nicely for moms and boys all around.

Legos' Anyone?
Miles' mom saved ALL his toys growing up. No joke, 6 bins and 4 big boxes worth, all stacked in our garage. We decided that we needed to organize some of the toys in order to consolidate space and to get out the age appropriate toys for Evan. Evan is either at the perfect age to play with them (note: what he got for his Birthday) or will be within the next year or so. He isn't quite ready for the little legos' that we inherited so it was good we were just organizing them.

This is what my bedroom floor looked like during the month of January ... millions of legos EVERYWHERE. Along with the legos we had some boxes and almost all the instructions that they originally came in or with. Miles wanted them all built, put into plastic zip-lock bags along with their instructions/pictures/ or cut-up boxes, and safely put away to await the time when Evan could and would more fully appreciate them. We were building constantly! After the kids went to bed Miles and I would stay up building legos' for 2 to 3 hours a night. I would even build them while the kids were at school! It was pretty funny to watch Miles turn back into that little boy who got them for his birthday or for Christmas.

SUNDAY LAYTON TACO's
Every Sunday we have the traditional Layton Taco's cooked by the MAN of the house. Every week on our way home from church we ask the kids "Who want's Layton Taco's?" or "Who want's beans a Papa?". Depending on how hungry the kids are, they usually love this silly game and add onto it with other silly questions that don't relate to Tacos in the slightest. (If they are really, REALLY hungry they don't like to play because they are too busy crying and pouting because their little stomach's hurt.) Truth be told, sometimes it gets a little out of hand and someone yells "Who wants to eat poo?", and without fail Anika yells "I do" and we all laugh. I love this family Sunday tradition; the excitement from the kids, how much the kids love these Taco's, the fact that Miles cooks them and not me, and the accompanying homemade salsa and guacamole. I hope one day my kids will carry on this tradition in their own home with their own families.