Jan 2016 recap

In Jan - the girls started piano lessons at home with Jennifer. She has been great, but as you will see in the next post - we purchased a condo and our weeks have become really busy because we are skiing all weekend so I have opted to push our lessons back to Fall with her just based on practicing and time and money. The girls did awesome and loved it though!

Charlie lost another tooth - 2 front teeth gone!

note my greased up Beautycounter Nourishing Balm face - it is a little scary to look at but in the morning your face is as smooth as a baby's bottom so you don't care!  

the tooth!

Whoops - butz family christmas extras

As you can tell I was lazy in Jan - here are some pics left over from our awesome Butz family Christmas in Bozeman over the new year! 

Loved watching these kiddos eat together. 

Bill convincing Nolan to run to him. 

more playing at the table. 

Nana and Claire.

Gorgeous Auntie Suz!

Nolan was a favorite of the dogs. 

Love this of Charlie and Nolan!

Me posing for the fake family pic.

All of us!

Love this family I have been blessed with! 

NYE, Bridger Skiing and family days...

NYE - we got the kids in their matching Hanna pjs. Theo was very agreeable, but Nolan wasn't having it. 

Claire, Ellie, Charlie holding Theo.

 Meg decided to hold Nolan for a few photos. 

 She ditched Nolan and things looked ok for a bit.

LOVE this photo!!! Nolan is perfect here. Claire. Ellie. Charlie. Theo.

 Nolan is so happy because he is back with his mama! 

 Love this clan.

Had to include this because Theo is TOO cute!!!

Thanks a LOT Nana (she gets all the blame for this one) for this Frozen karoake machine. 

We skiied with a few of my family members at Bridger (a ski mountain about 25 min from my parents house). The kids had a blast! Was a perfect place to cruise around. 

Claire and Charlie post skiing. Love the love between them all. 

The following day (Saturday), I stayed back with the girls while Bill took Charlie skiing with my dad and grant and suz. I went downtown with Dan, Meg and the kids. Then snowshoe with Dan and Lily in my parent's backyard. 

Then Nana had a great idea to pull the girls up this massive driveway and then we sledded down. 

The views were amazing!

Nana is a champ! 

What a fun family Christmas. It was great to all be together. So thankful for a fmaily that is fun to be with and that makes the extra effort to plan and carve out time to see each other! Love you Butz Fam! 

Bozeman Butz Family Christmas

We arrived really late on Wednesday night - so Thursday morning (NYE) was catch up time with the whole family! The kids haven't spent time together since Nolan was a baby. It was a delight to watch them slowly warm up over the course of the time together. 

Kids hanging out at the kids' table! 

Nolan's smile is the best! He is 20 months now. 

Suz and Tom playing it cool.

The kids were eager to get opening gifts.

Nana & G Pops gave us our "last ornament ever" (I think they gave me my last ornament ever a year or two ago though). 

obviously I loved it! It is a blown glass Family tree ornament. 

These kids were threatened to have their presents burned in the fire if they didn't calm down. They did the job. 

Claire hanging with Uncle Tom. checking out his beer?!?!

riiiiighht before present opening started - we had another drink spill by a handsome man who shall remain unnamed. Good thing for the Rug Doctor saving the day again. 

the flurry of presents started. 

no matter what gift was given - "stuffy" the name given to my dad's foam roller by the girls at Thanksgiving - was the most desireable gift. so classic (before Christmas I asked the girls what they wanted and they honestly said "stuffy", but I just couldn't get myself to go buy a foam roller for them!). 

girls tearing into their gifts from Uncle Dan & Aunt Meg.

Anna & Frozen accessories for the win! 

Ellie "helping" (ie: stealing) Stuffy from Nolan. 

Charlie getting more legos! 

Nolan opening his "a-panees" from the kids.

This is Charlie looking disappointed. He received this circuit connector gift from Nana & G Pops - he was totally shocked it wasn't legos. Thankfully, my mom knew Charlie was going to think they were legos and I begged her NOT to get him MORE legos so she was willing to see his face like this instead of over the top. Funny enough after getting back from our trip and opening this gift and playing with it he loves it! Said it was his favorite gift - wouldn't think that after seeing this photo. 

saying thank yous. who knows what Bill is doing - ha! 

The girls got matching doll and goil dresses and were thrilled .

Here is Ellie's!

Claire's!

Bill got a helmet! 

kinda dorky, but he loves it. 

Suz and Grant got house stuff from their registry! fun fun.

the fun times. 

Chaos ensued, but it was a great day. Our evening was delightful with an amazing dinner for NYE and at 10pm many of the adult kids went out to hear suzanne and grant's wedding band. The LAME parents - me, dan and meg (Bill rocked it and drove everyone) - went to bed. I was so happy to sleep! Happy New Years!