February

I loved this beautiful sunrise over our gross yard:

I thought Natalie's senior picture turned out so cute too:

I saved this BeReal of an outing the kids took:

I loved these preschool pics too:

For a while, Eve just loved sitting in this floatie we accidentally stole from Grandma and Grandpa's cabin:

We teamed up to take Eli and Maddy to the temple for the first time It was such a neat experience and I loved that we got to go together. Then we got dinner after.

Another classic Eve outfit:

Eve took these pictures from a night we had family over:

She also took a whole bunch of George:

And this cute one of Joe:

Joe and Natalie sang a cute duet of "We Are Gonna Be Friends" for her music account:

One weekend when Lizzie was in town we all took a trip up to Hailey to go sledding:

It was fun! It was a steep hill, though, so some of us didn't walk up very many times :).

We got lunch at a yummy burger place after:

I just loved soaking up time with us all together.

Snuggle time one night:

Eve loves going on hikes with me still:

I just loved this view of Eve reading books in the sunlight at the library:

We had a picnic too:

On February 21st, I was in my room working on my homework for my class when I suddenly got this text:

This was 20 months after I had made it to the next round of auditions where I took a test of 50 question on zoom with other people and then had a mock game on zoom. They had told me that if I didn't get called to be on the show in 18 months I should just try taking the test again so I was thinking I'd have to do that. I was shocked! Of course I said yes and they called right away to tell me I was going to be on the show on April 3rd! I was so pumped. I came out to the family room and told Joe, Natalie, Eli and Eve who were there and we just jumped up and down. It was so awesome and they were so excited for me. I loved that moment. Then the studying began...

At the end of the month, Joe and I drove down to Las Vegas for a builders conference that he and Ben were going to. I got to tag along for a fun getaway. The drive down was quite scary though with super low visibility:

We made it safely, thankfully.

Joe spent most of the trip helping me study all the countries and their capitals. He was so good at coming up with funny ways to remember them and he helped so much.

We got to go to some fun shows while we were there, including a Michael Jackson tribute one, a Beatles one, and a movie in the Sphere:

The sphere had this cool robot you could ask questions to:

We walked around the conference for a bit too:

We also had some AMAZING food. One night we had a multi-course meal that was paid for by a vendor that was so good:

Our last night there we splurged on a really fancy meal and at a Michelin star restaurant. I don't know if we'll spend that much on a meal again but the food was amazing!

That scallop was the best one I'd ever eaten.

It was a super fun trip and an awesome month!