Cornelius Chronicles

After waiting 4 months for my new French doors to come in and get installed I finally have the backdoor that I love!!  Supply Chain issued are certainly teaching us to be patient!  

I love that our family loves to play board games.  I love to listen to the giggles and negotiations, and conversations that take place around the kitchen table when games come out and memories are made.  What a fun family tradition.    

We got a lot of snow the day after Christmas, but not really much more since.  We had to capture the beautiful, snowy white moment while we could.  We are praying for more snow soon! It may be cold outside this January, but we are busy thinking up ideas to keep us busy.  Maeve had a fun afternoon of making little hug bugs.  They are all unique and adorable. We bravely ventured out on a walk to the elementary school after dinner to play on the playground and make ourselves dizzy spinning on the the fun toys.  Thank goodness for fun dad who make the park awesome! We even made it to the Ogden Nature Center for a program about animals in Utah that have horns and antlers. He had fun learning lots of cool animal facts about bison, prong horns, deer, elk, and moose.    

We were not prepared for how much Cici likes to sit on shoulders.  Maybe she things she's a bird?  :D  Everyone chilling out in the basement..   

We had so much fun going to see Maeve sing in the Morgan Valley Children's Choir for their Christmas concert.  Maeve did such an amazing job and was so fun to watch.  She had fun being part of the choir with her friend Lily.   This Christmas season we also got the fun of watching Loyd perform on the euphonium in the Middle School Band Christmas concert.  He did a great job and we all had fun listening to the students perform.   

We had a busy Christmas season filled with lots of fun activities.  We partied at the bbq catered 3rd Ward Christmas party, drove through dancing lights at Christmas in Color at the Utah State Fair Grounds with all of the grandparents, enjoyed Hometown Christmas on Commercial Street in Morgan where we got to meet Santa Clause in person and do some fun crafts.  We spent lots of fun time together and enjoyed a happy Christmas morning together.  However, most of all, we loved having the opportunity to celebrate the Savior of the World and His gift to all of us of himself so that we might return to live with Him one day.   Christmas photo booth at the Ward Christmas Party Balloon toy fun at Hometown Christmas More Hometown Christmas fun while waiting in line to see Santa. John, Grandma Phillips, and Mommy got to go on a very special tour of the Ogden Christmas Village with Mrs. Clause.  We saw so many cool Christmas elf houses, got a special treat, listened to The Night Before Christmas,

  Rebekah is a super fun big sister.  She takes time out of her day to spend quality time with little John.  She loves to bake cookies with John and make art projects together.  Here she is very generously letting John paint a rabbit for her bedroom.  I just love watching the interaction between these two.  Here is John showing off some delicious cookies he helped Rebekah to make while Dustin and I were out on a date night.   What a fun pair these two make! Rebekah asked John what the first step was to making the cookies and he replied, "Turn on the onion."  He really meant oven.  :D

John is growing so fast and keeping me on my toes with all of the cute things he says and does.  He is a delight to have in our family and I love that I get to spend my days with this adorable little guy.  Here's some fun things to know about John right now.   Favorite TV Shows: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and Blippi Favorite Song: "I'm an Excavator" by Blippi, "Monster Trucks" by Blippi, and the "Boat" song by Blippi Favorite thing to do: Play Monster Trucks or do crafts Funny Things He Says: "Guspostabee" instead of "Supposed to be" "Take my pempature" pointing to any part of his body when he wants his temperate taking "I love you mom" - he says this all the time and it makes me happy. :)  "I help you!" when he wants to be part of any activity "I snuggle you?" when he want to stay up late watching TV with Mom and Dad "More-tella" when talking about Nutella Favorite places