Ice Skating

After Christmas we got together with the Farnsworth clan down in Salt Lake.  We all met up at Jen's house for a little after Christmas party.  We got to open presents from Grandma and Grandpa Farnsworth and played with our cousins.  Then we all went over to the Utah Olympic Oval to go ice skating.

We all had a blast skating.  This has kind of become a tradition with the Farnsworth's.  We went skating here this time last year as well.  It is so fun though.  The kids are getting much better at skating.  Colby didn't need the walkers at all and really Logan didn't need it either but he did feel safer with it.

Emily, Alex, and Paul just headed out on their own and had a great time as cousins.  We pretty much didn't see them the whole time because they were just hanging out having fun racing on the ice. 

It was nice seeing Traci, Sean, and Johnathan again all the way from Texas.   Charlotte was especially excited to see Johnathan.  She kept saying "Hi Johnathan!"

Tyler was also up from St. George and even brought along a friend named Ashley.  She seemed nice but the kids were more excited to be hanging out with Uncle Tyler.  I kept telling him he needed to shave though.  We all laughed at that. 

Charlotte loved hanging out with James and Grandma and Grandpa on the sidelines.  She didn't even care that she wasn't on the ice with everyone else.

Colby was getting really good at skating on his own.  He was even starting to go really fast.  Logan skated with me and the walker.  On one lap I made him give up the walker and just skate.  He did pretty well and only fell a few times but you could tell that he had to concentrate a whole lot more when he didn't have the walker.  Once we made it around, he wanted the walker again so that he didn't have to worry about falling and could just have fun.  

Russell and I even took a few laps around without the kids.

We even got brave enough to do a few tricks.  OK so they were really minor tricks like lifting up one leg but we felt cool doing them.  Ice skating is really quite fun.  I could do it all day if it didn't make my hands cold.  

We finally decided it was time to leave because the hockey teams came out to practice.  They were not skating on the same ice as us but we were sitting right next to their practice arena and it stunk so bad!  It was a lovely combination of BO and stagnant water mixed with never washing their uniforms.  It was time to leave anyway.

We had a great time skating and being with family. After we had all changed back into our normal shoes, we headed back to Jen's house for dinner.  We had pulled pork sandwiches and salads.  It was so good.  When we were done eating, we were off to family pictures.

Jen had reserved a reception hall for us to have family pictures taken in.  I don't think we have had an updated picture since Logan was a baby.  The place was really nice so I hope the pictures turned out good. I have not seen them yet though.  

It was really nice spending time with family and having a good time ice skating.