Cats, Cats, Cats

Rylee was having a rough day and she asked if we could go to the animal shelter and play with the cats. The girls loved that idea so we headed out to find some cats! They all loved holding and snuggling with the cats. Rylee tried and tried to get me to let her take one home, but there wasn't a chance that was happening. Lol

Rylee

Life these days is pretty crazy. Our neighbors, the Jensens, are going through a custody change and needed a place for Rylee (age 15) to stay for a couple of months while some things get worked out. So we moved Brooklyn upstairs and moved Rylee into Brooklyn's room downstairs. We've been trying to help out with the other 3 Jensen girls, so there are a whole lot of girls around here...all the time! Schedules are starting to get sorted out and hopefully the stress level will come down a little bit, but for now we are just living hour by hour. Brielle is loving having Rheyce over all the time and they have been getting along really well. They spend a lot of time doing crafts...as you can see by the glitter letters they spent hours doing. It's definitely been an adjustment to having a teenage girl around, but overall it's been going ok and my girls love having a big sister around!

So Soft!

The kids love playing with the chinchillas. They like to let them out of their cage to run around the craft room and play. We try to hold them a lot so they will get used to us. They are extremely soft and fun to have around!

Cabin Trip

We headed up to the cabin to celebrate New Year's. It's always a lot of fun and the kids loved sledding and learning how to snowboard. 

 

Christmas Day

My parents stopped by to visit then we headed to the Ericson's home to celebrate Christmas with them. The highlight of the day was the gift Kay and Steve gave to Brayden. Last year they took Brayden to Vernal to go visit the dinosaur museum. Steve bought dinosaur chess set while they were there and had it shipped home and he's waited all year to give it to him. It is a beautiful chess set and Brayden is in heaven with it.

 

Christmas Morning

Pretty self explanatory by the pictures lol. The kids had a great morning full of getting all the things they asked for. Brielle was a little disappointed with what Santa brought her bc she thought it was going to be a new chinchilla. But she ended up loving the fish once she spent some time with them. I kept the Coke machine a secret from Josh for a few months and stored it in my neighbor's garage. It was fun to see his reaction to it!