Happy President's Day!

This is the first time that TB plowed the driveway this season, so we're so happy it is finally snowy at our house. We pulled the kids around in a sled and made snow angels, but no snowmen or snowballs with our not-sticky-just-powdery Utah snow.

Just to make a ridiculous point (the same motivation of too many of our legislature's actions), Utah State calls it Lincoln and Washington Day instead of President's Day. We want to make a point to celebrate and thank ALL the Presidents, past and present, of our truly outstanding country. Maybe one of these adorable and genius children will be president one day...

News about everybody

Jovie talks like crazy. She's so funny and kind of insightful. You can see a video of Jovie's January  interview http://youtu.be/Qo7l-JM-Pc8. She's almost potty trained too. She'll be totally trained by her birthday. Yay!


Isaac is a very talented singer and dancer. He is not so great at following the gymnastic coach's directions, but he's in a class of 6 three-year-old boys and they all are a little wild. He's very cautious and hesitant to jump off of things. My guy is the one in the tie-dyed heart shirt.

The coach called off the last ten minutes of class last week because the boys kept falling on their butts like this. They're crazy.

TB just received news of his big promotion at work. He's an Executive Sales Rep now and we're so proud of him! He's just good at everything. He went to an estate sale/giveaway and picked up this great painting by Cornelius Salisbury dated 1936:

We googled the artist and found that he's an important Utah artist who was born in 1882. There's an article about him at this address: http://www.artistsofutah.org/15bytes/09oct/page1.html

The author of that article told us that Todd's new treasure is worth $1500. Amazing right? So it will get a place of prominence in our home art collection and TB gets another thumbs up!

Talking

I guess I should explain that Santa's reindeer left a little pile of "droppings" on the carpet by the fireplace where the kids' stockings were hung. Dad thought it was hilarious and he said the "poop" tasted like chocolate-covered espresso beans.

Jovie's trick