February musings....

                                       February.  What a month here in Watertown, MA.

SNOW.

That would be the word of all words to sum it up.

It snowed.  A lot.

More on that later.

Other happenings:

A fun superbowl party with friends.  We let C stay up and he had a BLAST.  He LOVED eating the treats and playing with his friends.  

Tuesdays have become our library days.  We love our local library, and C has grown to love the story time there.  He loves picking out books (we've gotten some weird ones), playing with the toys there, and playing puzzles.  His favorite part is checking out, and he takes it very seriously.  He loves handing the librarian the card, and then she always gives him a stamp on his hand.  Lately, he's been asking for both hands.  It's pretty cute.

Mr. H and I helped with a fun primary activity.  We are enjoying our callings as primary teachers working with the eleven year olds.  

We also got to speak in church.  We talked about family history, and we had fun putting those talks together. Mr. H LOVES doing family history and has been plugging away at it very diligently.  We both found out that we have ancestors that helped found Watertown.  Cemetery scouting will be happening as soon as the snow melts.

We've also been diligent attenders at Tune Train through the Watertown family network. C has been learning so many new songs and we love it.

We had a nice Valentine's day.  Mr. H and I take turns planning V-day and our anniversary every year, and it was my turn for this fun day.  We made a fun fancy breakfast with C.  He loves 'fancy' breakfasts!  Then that night we all went to dinner.  It was of course snowing, and so we didn't go very far.  Dinner was good, and it was fun having C along.  Mr. H and I played games that night and then watched a movie of his choice: Castaway.  I had never seen it, and while I don't know if it would have ever been my pick for a Valentine's day movie, it was fun to see how much he enjoyed it.

Mr. H and I did a hospital tour of where I will be delivering at.  It was really fun---we're excited to have such a great hospital in our area!  

We had two Sundays where church was cancelled.  We got to have our own sacrament meeting which was different, but neat.  

Mr. H and I have been going on a few dates which have also been fun.  We went to a play, a murder mystery by Agatha Christie.  It was held at a local church, and it was a lot of fun!  We also went and played racquetball and our local YMCA.  That was hilarious....Mr. H had to play with his left hand to make it remotely far.  

My dr's appointments picked up this month, and I have to say C has been quite the trooper.  He is the best buddy every at those appointments.  My third trimester has surprisingly been my best, and I've felt really good and healthy. 

School was cancelled a lot too....which was fun for the most part, but got kind of stressful towards the end.  

And back to the snow.  I have never experienced SO MUCH SNOW! It just kept on coming.  A foot here, a couple of feet there it was crazy.  Boston made a record on snowfall this February, and I was afraid the snow drifts were going to cover my windows!  Luckily, our power always remained on, and so it mostly just kept us indoors.  Poor Mr. H had to do a lot of shoveling. 

Modeling my scarf...and sporting his new haircut!

A couple of V-day decorations

January 2015 in the H household

We got back from our trip to DC and found out our heater was broken.

Bummer of the century.

It got down to 51 degrees in our apartment, and when it's 10 degrees outside, that's pretty frigid.  I found out I get extremely grumpy when I don't have heat.

We also all got sick for pretty close to the entire month.  Boo! Poor Mr. H...I'm grumpy when he's sick, and I'm grumpy when I'm sick...he just can't catch a break. :)

Mr. H started up his classes again.  

C and I discovered "Tune Train", which is a super fun music class offered by our city.  We love it!

We also survived our first snow storms in Boston....little did we know that there would be much more to come!  

The blizzard "Juno" hit us hard... I finally figured out where the phrase "frosted window panes" came from...ha!  It was fun to be snowed in together.  Mr. H got some snow days and we enjoyed being stuck inside.

Mr. H has still been biking in the snow... poor guy!

C's first snowman!  Celebrating our first snowfall in Boston!!!!

Riding our bike in the basement!

Aftermath of Juno....C wasn't too thrilled.

Being snowed in...loved having Mr. H around!  C also LOVES helping to cook...

Emergency preparedness....

And then the snow just kept coming....

Poor Mr. H had to do all of the shoveling... He's amazing!

Pre Christmas Festivities

Mr. H finished up all his things on WEDNESDAY! Hooray!!! :)

Thursday, we had planned to go and be with our families, but we had a snowed in day.

Sometimes being forced to relax is kind of nice.  We played with baby C, and then spent the evening snuggling watching a movie.

Saturday we were able to run around Davis County finalizing Christmas shopping.

It was really fun.

L and J were able to fly in, and we got to see them on 

SUNDAY.

But first we went to church, and then attended our friend's baby blessing, which was beautiful.

We got to my parents and had a ball catching up with L and J (sister and brother-in law)

We convinced my parents to make a ton of homemade gingerbread and let us make houses and hobbit holes.  

For the record, I think homemade gingerbread is much easier to work with in building a house than the kits.

That night we headed up to Mr. H's house and had the annual "game-night".  

We always enjoy being together and it's fun to see the little cousins all together.

Today I am trying to clean the house, and prepare for the big two days.  We were able to attend a concert at the Cathedral of the Madeline in Salt Lake City.  It was AMAZING.  And quite beautiful.  

We also were able to go to temple square one final time and enjoy the lights.  

Salt Lake is a truly magical place to be for Christmas.

Cheers!

the H family begins CHRISTMAS

I am pleased to announce that the H family finally got around to decorating and starting Christmas! :)

I was getting so depressed that we didn't have any stuff up yet, and I was concerned that Christmas would be over too soon.

So, in the midst of very hectic schedules, Mr. H and I took baby C and bought a Christmas Tree.  We went to the Smith's Marketplace on 4th south---I was really impressed with their nursery.  

2013

2012---He was so little!!!! :)

 We got the tree, and tried to set it up at home.  Every SINGLE year we struggle putting that baby up.  This year, we resorted to breaking old frames and padding the tree trunk with those to get it to stand up straight.  

 I was helping with a Stake Primary Breakfast this morning, so I had to leave to go set up last night.  We finally decorated the tree at 11:30p.m.  

I am also pleased to say it was our first year decorating it without any arguments.  

:)

Mr. H did not approve of the over posed picture :)

Christmas Bell and Santa from my Great-Grandmother Nina, and a pretty ship from North Carolina

Today was hectic because of the breakfast.  Everything went smoothly and our presidency had a lot of fun doing it together.  Thanks to all the help!!!!

Mr. H was gone almost all day, so baby C and I decorated, cleaned and had a really cozy 'inside' day.  It was so picture perfect tonight: the falling slow, lit up tree and snuggly baby.  The only downside was our heater broke down and we had to wait for Mr. H to get home and fix it. :)

He was getting a little sick of posing for pictures.

Baby C has been so cute with all the decorations.  He loves our tree, and will gaze up into it and get so excited.  He loves the nativity, especially the baby Jesus.  He takes him in and out of his manger for as long as you will let him.  

Since Mr. H was so busy tonight, I decided to make some Christmas Cookies and watch a favorite of mine, "Little Women".  

It was lovely.  

Merry December 7th!!!