Kade's Snowballs!

Kade scored an awesome "snowball maker" at the DI.  I'm not sure if that is really what it actually is, but it is at our house and it makes some awesome snowballs.  On a snowy January day he made this nice snowball pyramid!

Origami for Family Home Evening!

One night for the activity for Family Home Evening Quincy was really excited to teach us some origami.  She had just learned how to make these cool swans.  We all got to make one!  Fun times!!

Brinley's projects!!

One day Brinley was bored and couldn't find anything to do so Chris helped her make this little guy!  They raided the recycle box outside and found their supplies.  Good thing Brinley has the best Dad in the whole wide world!!!!

Disneyland 2012!!!

We have been so blessed to go on so many fun trips lately.  Dad had enough points built up at work that we were able to combine the points with our Christmas money and go to Disneyland.  We all voted to wait until January though so that we did not have to deal with the lines over Christmas break.  We left Saturday, January 14th and came home on Sunday, January 22nd.  We headed to St. George where we ate at The Pizza Factory and then spent some time visiting with Dan, Lilly and Kara.  We went to church the next morning and then headed to California.  We stayed in an awesome condo right across the street from Disneyland.  It was perfect.  Here is a brief rundown of what we did

Monday - Newport Beach & Down Town Disney

Tuesday - Disneyland

Wednesday - Disneyland

Thursday - Newport Beach & Whale Watch

Friday - Disneyland

Saturday - Disneyland

Sunday we headed for home!  It was one of the best trips we have ever taken to California.  The weather cooperated pretty well and our kids were the perfect age for Disneyland.  We had sooo much fun together.  None of us wanted to come home to cold, snowy Utah!!  

 The Whale Watch we went on turned out to be one of the highlights of the trip.  We have done this before in San Diego, but this time was sooo much better.  We got so lucky and ended up being there on the one to two days of the year that they see this many killer whales.  They were everywhere and so close to us.  They swam right under our boat.  It was so amazing to see.  I don't know how we lucked out.

We love Disneyland!!  I think we could go every single year and never get tired of it.  It is such a happy place and our kids seem to enjoy it so much.  I just love spending the time together! 

Hopefully we will be back in the future!!

Family Goals for 2012

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For Family Home Evening in January we set some Family Goals for the year.  These are the ones we decided we would work on.  I will feel really good if we can accomplish these things this year.

Southwick Family Goals 2012

* Talk and treat each other with Respect &  Kindness

                - soft voices

                - tone of voice - POSITIVE

* Work on Healthy Eating

                - Whole grains, fruits & veggies

                - Kefir and vitamins in the mornings

* Morning Family Scriptures

                - Everyone ready to read by 6:50am

* Family Prayers

                - Family prayer morning & night

                - Food prayers - remember when eating alone

*Family Home Evening

                - Every Monday Night

                - Everyone takes turns teaching lesson

* Work Together

                - Jobs done...mark chart  :)

* Look to the Temple

                - Mom & Dad go at least once a month

                - Kids do baptisms for the dead at least quarterly

* Fun Family Activities

                -Do something fun together once a month

               

* PPI's

                - PPI with Dad in between General Conference on Sunday

* Pay off House in 4-5 years

* Humanitarian Service Trip!!