Winter with Toddlers

I often find them in my makeup making eachother pretty. It's adorable and annoying.

I almost skipped May's 1st year of preschool, and I'm so glad I didn't. She loves being around other kids and learning new things. She learned the whole alphabet this year! And so did Philip because he thought it was the cool thing to do.

Christmas was at Grandma and Grandpa Maxfield's this year. Philip got a lot of Buzz toys.

We went on a few small adventures to the temple quarry hike in the snow, and to the tree of life down in Draper. Just trying to fill our time with family togetherness.

Amanda rented out a whole movie theater room so we could go watch Elf as an isolated family. COVID conditions have kept things weird. 

We went to Murray Park a lot, and the words "Murray Park" are some of Philip first words.

May really wanted to build a snowman and so I braved the cold and we made this little creation. She then immediately demolished it and we had a great snowball fight. May is a good sport and doesn't mind a little snow in the face.

First ski adventure in the books. We didn't last long but the experience was positive.

 

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Jackson Hole X2

These pictures are also in reverse order like the California post. We went to Jackson Hole during the summer to hang out, and then again for Thanksgiving.

I rode Rob's horse Rooster. He was a champ the whole ride.

We happened to be in the square downtown in Jackson Hole while Annelise was getting baptized, so we facetimed here and watched her get baptized in the ocean, all while sitting on a freezing cold bench by the antler arches.

Our first visit to Mindy and Rob's new cabin in Alpine was wonderful. There is a ton of room for everyone and pretty much my whole family showed up for Thanksgiving.

We lasted all of like 15 minutes sledding cause it was incredibly cold and Snow King.

We tried to watch the Christmas parade at the square but it was pretty small because of COVID.

We all had a good laugh at Rob's Christmas tree choice. They just went out to the yard and chopped this beauty down.

 

Philip found his favorite man at Ace Hardware.

And we went to go see this wacky house downtown in SLC when dad was in town.

 

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California X2

 So there are a lot of travel restrictions this year because of COVID, which made me pretty restless and stir crazy. The only place I could reasonably get to was California, so I took some risks. We ended up going twice. Once in early summer, and then a second time in October right before Halloween. These pictures are posted reverse order. 

I decided to bring my bike along and do some exploring since I haven't had a lot of time at home to get out with Garrett gone. In Sacramento when we stopped to visit the Smiths for a few days I got out to Auburn.

Philip and Hunter are best friends. It's so sweet. 

We went to a pumpkin patch in Lincoln and it was a great time with the cousins.

Philip is learning a lot of new words and pronounces them really clearly and well. He went from silent to saying just about everything he hears super suddenly. In this picture he said "hat" for the first time haha.

At HMB we found the most awesome tree to climb around in. All the playgrounds in the area were closed for COVID, but this was even better. We played frisbee in the park for a while too, and rode our bikes around town. Nothing is more healing to the soul than a good HMB bike ride.

So much of HMB is scenic. It's a lifestyle of beauty.

Philip took an interest in "Peaches", their rabbit, but couldn't seem to catch him.

We watched some friends get baptized in the ocean.

I also went and did the Soquel Demo trail in Santa Cruz while I was down there. It was a great time meeting random people on the trail and doing some awesome flow.

We also hit the pumpkin patch in HMB and got a few little keepers.

As is usual in HMB, the walk there was the best part.

Chelsea and I went out to check out the Filoli Gardens cause I'm a fool for estate gardens. I was in heaven.

And we found an old farm road and picked berries. 

May and Dancelle were to die for.

Soren and Philip in heaven in the dirt.

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