February Fun

Another season of basketball done! They both made some baskets and improved their ball handling skills, defense, and had a lot of fun! 

 The kids loved holding and petting Grandpa Bill's cat Furball. They're trying to convince me again on a cat. Not gonna happen, but love that they can get a cat fix elsewhere!

     

We got Brad another toy for his birthday. We started with aiming at the kids' Valentine balloons at the end of the hallway, and then moved on to a few friendly fires on each other. Always grateful for another year with this awesome husband/father in our family -- even if he doesn't like celebrating birthdays.   

 It was fire safety day at Luke's library group, so the firefighters came and showed the kids their fire suits and fire truck. Luke got in for a picture, but spent the rest of the time finding slushy snow piles and puddles to splash in.

      

 February 2019

One year older!

Happy 11th birthday Emma!! Love my sweet, snugly, intelligent, and caring daughter and the beautiful young lady she is becoming! Lego's are still "the big thing," and even though I'm running out of room to put them, we couldn't pass up a Harry Potter Lego set! Apparently "squishie's" are a thing, too, so we rounded up a few of those. 

 Strawberry swirl cheesecake was her treat of choice for the second year in a row. No complaints here. Yum! And the Lego building begins. 

 Bedroom streamers! 

Emma wanted to have a game-themed birthday with pizza at home, so she pulled out some of her favorite games, and we added in some minute-to-win-it games. 

 Moving M&M's from one place to another with a straw, getting an oreo on your forehead into your mouth without hands, picking up rigatoni noodles with a spaghetti noodle in your mouth -- no hands, bucket head, hula hoops rolled to catch water bottles, etc. She didn't want to try some of the funny ones for fear of embarrassment -- maybe next time. They all seemed to have a good time and left with candy trophy's and smiles.   

 

 

 February 2019

January!

We were watching an America's Funniest Video's, and they had a series where people would hold up a blanket and then hide before the blanket drops to see how they're dogs would react. The kids wanted to try it. Lizzy wouldn't follow the kids when they tried, so I gave it a try...

After a few times of her running to come find me, she now just runs up and lays on the blanket before I can disappear. 

We went over to Scenty's light tunnel for a nice walk and a few fun pictures!

Lucas (every single night) comes down -- sometime between 11pm and 6am, and sleeps on the couch. I have no idea what wakes him up, but he says he comes down because he's scared of the dark. His room has THREE nightlights and a street light outside his window. Not dark. I think he does it just because he knows I don't want him to... That is a very "Lucas" thing to do.

 Feeling cooped up, we decided since it was a little warmer (low 40's) we'd try and brave the park. It was nice to be out, but after about 20-30 minutes, my hands do this...Raynaud's getting worse as I get older. My circulation gets cut off to parts of my fingers and they go numb/hurt until I can get them warmed up with warm water! 

 We kinda love this dog. She may not appreciate getting woken up...

 One of our favorite shows was America's Got Talent -The Champions. The kids LOVE Tape Face, but he didn't make it into the finals. When he got sent home, Emma got a little teary-eyed, and Lucas broke down in tears. I had to hold back my laughter at how attached they were to this character. Poor kids! Tape Face was great though, and will be missed.

Jan 2019

New Year!

Another new year come, and still the same goofy family with the same goofy hats! 

December 31, 2018

The Festivities

We ran over to Cabela's to see Santa. Santa seemed in a rush, didn't talk much, and took all the kids at once -- kind of a disappointing Santa for kids that are excited to be there -- but at least we've got everyone smiling! 

 And when Cabella-ing, checking out all the animals is a must. The kids enjoyed finding all the little and big creatures and pointing them out to each other. 

 Christmas cookies! Along with the Christmas usuals, the kids threw in some dinosaurs, rhinos, seals, penguins, and such. Everyone's included in our Christmas -- well done kids. 

 I tried out Brad's grandma's apple pie recipe. I'm definitely not a master in the crust department, but it turned out really yummy, and it's the first pie that Brad has eaten more than once piece of! In fact, he ate all but the three pieces I ate! It was delicious, and I will be making it again. 

Christmas morning was filled with the joy of opening presents, playing the new board games we received, new toys, cinnamon rolls, legos, and relaxing. 

 

Christmas is one of the few days that Lizzy full-on barks. New toys,

especially ones that make noise and climb on walls, really get her going!

After five days of working on it, I finished the three layer puzzle Brad got me!

December 2018