The Amazing Children's Museum

My friend April had an extra pass to go to the Children's Museum and Andee loved it! She loves our computer at home and here she had one just her size. It was so cute to watch her roam around to all the different things at the museum. There is this water room that she splashed around in for 15 minutes. She also got some paint on her face only because I tried to help her face paint and she hated it. So she ended up with scribbles, still so cute! Fun Day!

GREAT GREEN RIVER!

We finally made it down to see the Chicago River dyed green for St. Patrick's Day. I have wanted to go down and see it and the parade for 3 years now. Here are some pictures of our little excursion. I expected the river to be pretty green but not that green! It was really bright. We also messed around with the camera to only show the green in the top pics.

Family Pictures!

Here are some family pictures that my sister took while we were in Idaho for Adam's externship. We absolutely love them and they turned out really good, even though Andee wasn't cooperating. Here are a bunch to look at. We are back in Illinois now and things are going really good. We are sick of cold weather and being cooped up inside. Adam has a great schedule right now where he only has clinic two days a week. It's really great! We are here in Illinois until the end of March and then we head out again on other externs. It's amazing how fast time flies.








"Goodbye"

Carousel

Today for Family Home Evening we decided to take Andee on a carousel. We kind of had a clue to how she would like it since she's not normally very adventurous. Turns out we know our little Andee pretty good. She tolerated the ride, and I don't think she was sad when it was over. Andee is so much fun right now. She is at the stage where she will talk our ears off in her own made up language. She is such a cutie.

Summary of our Month and a half home!

Here are some random pics documenting our trip home to Idaho.Andee finally has some teeth to brush.
Andee playing with her cousin Luke.
Me skiing at Pebble Creek.
Andee, Adam and Brooklyn-Andee's cousin-at Adam's sister Stephanie's house.
My dad and Adam on the lift at Pebble.
Adam pushing Andee on her car around Grandma and Grandpa Matthews' house.
Here is Adam with his frosted hair. He came in from the hot tub and his hair was frozen. Here it actually melted a little. It melted really fast.
Adam's parents playing cards. We played tons and tons of games.
New Years with the Matthews' family.
Skiing at Sun Valley.
We boarded and sledded behind the 4-wheeler in the back yard a few times. The boys all built a huge jump to go off. We had tons of fun playing games, hanging out with family and just being there to see the mountains everywhere we look! Adam was there for an externship for school.

We are still alive. Here is our Christmas!

Here is Christmas morning on the Howard side of the family. My little sister Kourtney and her Fiance Dustin were there with us and my parents. Here is just some pics. Andee got a little tutu from her cousin.

THANKSGIVING.......

I figured better late than never to post these Thanksgiving pictures. We went over to a couple in the ward, the Zumstegs. They are so nice and invite us over once a month for dinner! They are so fun and just great people. They also invited over other students. I forgot to take pictures until we were leaving so these are all the photos we have.