Top 5 for January

Because I've been a little neglectful of my blog this month, I thought I would give you a synopsis of our January.  The weather has been in the teens as the high for the day all month with yucky inversion, grey, gloomy skies.  It doesn't make very many of us happy and wanting to get out and do anything.  But we have managed a few highlights for the month.  So here are our top 5 events of the month.

1 - Shane and I got to go to the Jazz game.  We were given 3rd row seats to the game and even got to eat with the Jazz 100 club.  The food was soo good.  I ate a ton...then you get free snacks at half time. The game was so fun.  I loved being so close up and sitting on the soft seats.  It was a fun date night that Shane and I got to spend together.

2 - We hired a nanny 2 days a week.  Between my work and everything Shane has going on, we decided we needed to find some babysitting for the girls.  Shane now goes into an office for work 2 days a week.  We considered finding someone we could take them to, or even a daycare but finding someone or place for just 2 days a week that had openings for 2 toddlers was a little crazy.  So we decided to have someone come to our house.  We interviewed a few people but ended up finding a girl in our ward that we are good friends with her and her family.  It has worked out so well.  Emily has been great and the girls seem to like her and everyone is getting along and adjusting well.  We are happy to have Emily, someone we know and can trust.  Emily...I need a picture of you and the girls (do you still blog stalk me?)

3 - Getting over sickness in our house.  Shane got the flu (like influenza flu...and yes he got a flu shot) It lasted for 10 days.  He got an ear infection, fever, cough, congested and just plain achy.  It was miserable for him and not very fun for me.  Since I didn't want it and certainly didn't want the girls to get it, we pretty much just had to stay away from him.  Which meant I was a single mom for a lot of that time.  I even slept in a different room for several days.  It made the evenings and mornings a little crazy around here.  I was certainly happy to get my husband back after 10 days.  I got a cough for a few days but felt ok.  The girls both got fevers a few days apart but they were pretty low grade and snapped out of them after about 24 hours.  So about 1/2 the month we just stayed inside and tried not to spread sickness while trying to recover.

4 - We got out one afternoon for a trip to the mall to ride the train.  We were going a little stir crazy being indoors so much so when we finally felt better it was nice to get out and do something a little fun.  The girls had a good time on the train and Siena kept waving her arm up and down everytime I would say choo choo.

5 - Because we've been sick and it's been so cold, we haven't really gone out in the snow but one Saturday morning we bundled the girls up and took them out while Shane was snowblowing our driveway.  The girls had a good time just looking around and then decided to go see dad at the bottom of the driveway.  Well what I didn't realize is they've never walked on a slanted surface before.  Their little legs started going faster and faster and they were trying to keep up until they just couldn't and each one fell.  Luckily they weren't hurt at all but it was seriously pretty funny to see their legs going so fast down the hill.  We'll have to work on that with them when there isn't snow and ice on the driveway.  And yes Aria still refuses to open her eyes when she's outside and the sun is in her eyes.