Catching up AGAIN!!

Okay I know that it would be more convenient if I just posted nice short posts regularly, but I never seem to do it! Sorry!

So here is what we have been up to:
The weather has been so cold! The only good part is waking up every day to everything being beautifully white! I am so ready for spring, but I hear that the groundhog predicted 6 more weeks of winter! Bummer!

Little Hema is loving preschool. They do such fun stuff every time. Last week they each made and baked a loaf of bread. He is only there for 2 hours. He was so proud of his own bread he ate the whole thing himself. Why can't I seem to get bread made in those 2 hours that he is gone?

We of course have been to the dino museum many times in the past few weeks. Here is Hema with his friend Luke.

Speaking of Luke, he says the alphabet backwards. No one taught him, he just came up with it on his own. No one believes me when I tell them. Here he is.

We went to Color Me Mine last week and of course Hema wanted to paint a dinosaur. Luckily they had one. He also painted a mug for his dad to take to work. He had so much fun there. Thanks for the gift certificate Jess and Sterling!

We spent a couple of days in St George last week. It was much warmer and nice to get away. Somehow with 2 cameras, we only ended up with 1 picture: Hema playing a video game. Oh well!

Tonight it was actually warm enough to go to the Thanksgiving Point farm. We did a little craft, rode the horses and then got to help milk the cow. Little Hema was a bit freaked out with milking the cow. He couldn't quite figure out why it was "peeing in the bucket." And no he didn't want to try milking it! We tried to explain - but he was just too freaked out!

Little Hema is really making progress in his swimming! He is doing some awesome dives and loves to dive in and swim to the bottom of the deep part of the pool and pick up the diving sticks. I wish I could do that. His breath stroke is also coming along great and he is finally getting the side breathing down.

Vela is not loving swimming lessons as much! But I do remember that Hema hated it at first too, so I am not giving up.

Little Vela had her 15 month check up a bit ago and she is growing up fast. She is 33 inches tall (97th %) and 24 1/2 pounds (75th %). She cut 2 more molars this week and now has 11 teeth. She is running all over the place, but sometimes can't stop and tips over when she tries to. She is climbing all over the place and into everything. She loves to sit on my lap and read books, snuggle and laugh and play. She loves to carry her babies (dolls) around and hug and kiss them and try to feed them. She is all girl and the sweetest thing ever! We are so blessed to have her in our family!

And on Saturday we went to the Draper temple open house with Hema's brother Joe, Tina and Little Joe. It was very cool and it was neat to explain the temple to our sister in law Tina who isn't a member of the church. The best part was hearing little Hema explain it all to his cousin. He said "This is Jesus's house." "This is where people get baptized in water." In the sealing room he explained "Your mom sits over there and your dad over here and you are in the middle." Pretty awesome that he remembers from Vela's sealing. He was wearing his future missionary badge and I kept thinking what a great missionary he is now! Of course we have no pictures because they shuffle you from a church to a bus to the tunnel to the temple then after the temple back out to a tunnel to a different church and back on a bus to the first church. I forgot to run over and take one! It was awesome, just not handy for photos!