I really need to keep on top of my “monthly” snaps, bcs these pics are pretty much “quarterly snaps”! 

Here’s what’s been happening in everyday CDF life since January:

New year’s eve celebrations (minus three kids!) 

11 years ago, after our first NYE, we went to the park and this pic was taken:

So we went back to the park and recreated it:

Here’s the comparison:

We played the new Ticket to Ride game that Gabe got the family for Christmas:

The YM held a game night at our place:

And more games with the boys (winter time the games seem to come out):

Zach thinks our dining room table is his personal office; can’t complain that our dining room is our study hall – bcs they are studying! 

Josh shocked us all by getting a buzz cut! 

Reggie is still a suck for tummy rubs:

School Semi formal:

Zach likes to doodle while he sits at my desk when he’s on the phone, so I often sit down to this:

Valentine’s (should have done a post on its own… but we did our traditional steak and poutine supper and gave the kids their yearly album):

We celebrated Valentine’s at a new hotel in the city and had some poke which was awesome!

Josh’s school basketball team won the city finals:

Finding selfies on my phone:

Rob took the boys on their annual auto show excursion:

Meanwhile Reggie caught up on his scripture study:

And  Gabe is cooking up a storm at BYU-I. We try to get in a good FaceTime call every Sunday to catch up on university life: 

The occasional glimpse  of spring that  Rob catches when he runs:

We love to have Zach’s “special friend” Rachael for the weekend: 

Especially when she and Zach make Sunday dinner (yummy burritos):

We went to a missionary fireside and someone took these pics of us:

Josh had a band concert (he plays the trumpet… kinda… lol)

This was the sunset when we were flying home from Norway. But I’ll let it represent the ton of travel Rob has been doing these past few months to Alberta and BC! 

But he does get to see this when he runs in Victoria:

While I’m at home enjoying my new nightly “might muffin and frozen Greek yogurt snack” . He texted me one night to ask what I was doing (waiting for me to say “missing you”) and I sent him this pic:

He sends me funny texts about the guy he works with who talks too much (and he has a high threshold living with me so this guy must really be a talker!!)

Finally this past weekend we drove to London (Ontario!) so these kids could attend a 2 day youth conference. We rented an Airbnb to house us all and had a good time:

How cute that they match:)

Love this very happy boy Aidan below who’s heading off to England to serve a mission for the LDS Church. Not sure how I caught him slapping my girl though!! (He really wasn’t… but it was a funny shot to capture that made it look that way!)

Love these two girls and love that they love each other so much! (and don’t you just love Zandra’s dress?!?) 

Here’s the gang:

That’s a wrap for the past 3 months!