Date Nights

Chad and I ditched the kids for a whole evening and night to go see the Little Mermaid at the Hale Center and stay the night in a hotel. The kids did great and the play was amazing again! Chad gifted me tickets for Christmas. 

We really enjoyed staying in SLC and had a good breakfast and shopped our way home!

Love Chad and the time we get to spend together. <3
 

On another occasion, we had some plans with friends that fell through, we decided to keep our date night and go out anyway. With no real plans, we headed for the city. 

 We decided Italian food sounded good so we went to Bucca di Beppo. Food is so good there and we got SO much! 

We searched for things going on in SLC and discovered a Jazz game was going on that night. We bought tickets and walked over to the stadium. 

We were in the nose bleeds, clear to the top! We were surrounded by a bunch of boisterous annoying kids who were kicking our chairs, standing in front of us and being extra loud with megaphones right in our ears. We decided to jet out and go get gellato and go home. 

I guess that's how you know when you're getting old....when you'd just rather stay home and watch from the comfort of your own home than go out and be in a loud crowd. 

Still, it was fun and different and we enjoyed being together!

January Things

Rylee started turning a corner around the first of the year and doing lots better from her tonsil surgery. Lots of snuggles and cuddles helped. 

It was nice when we started seeing our Smiley Rylee again! She was so sad for many days. 

And she was so happy when she could finally go back to school a few days after school resumed. 

Brielle was in full swing enjoying her birthday gifts. She made us these little brownie donuts and had so much fun doing them. 

Chad and I escaped to the temple one chilly day. 

We've always wanted to go to Soldier Hollow and tube and this year we made it happen. It was SO fun. Having a conveyer belt to take you UP the hill makes all the difference. 

It started to snow and we thought it would make it so much better, but the snow acted like sandpaper and slowed us down so much we couldn't make it down the hill almost!

We left soon after but felt like we got plenty of fun in. 

We love watching our temple pop up from the ground! When we heard that the top pieces arrived, we drove down to see them. They look small, but they are actually really big. We hung around for a while to see if we could watch them be put on but we missed it. 

We had plenty of snow storms this january!

On to more freezing January things!