Our January must not have been very exciting. I don't have many pictures. We did travel home from Missouri the first few days of the month. There were some parts of the ride home when we thought we were going to be blown over by the wind. We saw semi's flipped. We were able to stay just in front of the storm enough that we avoided closed highways. Once, when Steve and I were first married and were on our way home from St. Louis one October, we got stuck in a bad storm and had to spend the night in an elementary school in Wyoming. Ahhh...the memories. Fortunately we didn't make any memories like that this time around. And we made it home safe and sound. I think I spent most of January putting things back together. We literally up and left in the middle of Christmas Day. Imagine stopping Christmas day with gifts and toys and boxes and wrapping everywhere, packing 6 people for a cross country trip-in the winter where you have to take big warm stuff- and then coming home more than a week later and depositing all your trip mess in the middle of your Christmas mess. That's what January was like for me. I hardly remember it. It went by so fast. I do remember the joy and jubilation the day that the daytime temperature dropped enough to unfreeze our driveway, which up to that point had been a solid sheet of ice. Before the sun went down and it froze again I sent the kids out to shovel it. Zac and Aubrey spent hours chopping away at the slushy icy mess. Also in January Zac went on the Scout Klondike camp out.
We went to see Saving Mr. Banks and Addy, who has become the expert at the claw machine, was able to snag this flower. Unfortunately the gold string got stuck on the claw and would not release. That was a pretty fun melt down. Good thing it was after the movie. We have so many (TOO MANY) stuffed animals, so I can't say I was too terribly disappointed to not be bringing this home with us.
Face Timing their cousin Alaina in Ohio.
Aubrey became a master lock pick, as demonstrated in this video below. For about a month, everywhere she went, she had a lock and a bobby pin with her.
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