Family Portrait

Family Portrait
"But Mom, what if a train comes?"

Monday, February 27, 2012

Happy Valentines?

So I say "Happy Valentine's?" because I should have updated with this post from Valentine's day.  But I guess I am a little behind.  But here is Kathleen with some of her friends at her class party.
 Cody with his new little "girlfriend".  He informed us that she was his girlfriend the week before Valentine's day, but he had already made her a valentine.  He dug through his valentines to make sure hers was really good now that she was his girlfriend.
 Brandon had a fun party too.  It was fun to get to be at all of their parties this year.
 Here are the kids cute valentines they made.
 Cody loves his Aunt Lissa and will ask to visit her every chance he gets.  She was babysitting him one day and when I came to pick him up, they were playing video games together.  It was so cute.
 My family came to visit and we took them to Tucanos.  Brandon LOVED the chicken hearts.  I told him if he wanted them that he had to ask the waiter.  So he actually spoke to the waiter.  It was super cute to see him talk for a change.
 My dad bought a karaoke machine and we had a blast singing for each other.


 We played the Disney version of Apples to Apples.
 After they went home, we took the kids ice skating.  They LOVED it.
 Cody had fun with his little walker he would slide around with and do spins and circles and fall down for fun.
 Brandon and Cody played light sabers/harry potter wands with these pencils the other day for over a half an hour.  Clearly I spend too much money on toys for them.  Next Christmas they are getting pencils.
 Cody does this every day after school, and never shuts the door.  It cracks me up.  So I had to document it.
 Ryan and I went on a date and played "The Amazing Race."  Ryan didn't really have any fun...at all.  But I still thought it was a great time.


 Alyssa and Clayton baby-sat for us while we were on the date.  They always do fun things from Pinterest with the kids when they baby-sit.  This time it was rocket packs.


Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Shout Out to Kathleen!

Congratulations to Kathleen!!  She wrote a book about diversity for the PTA reflections contest at her school and won.  We just found out that she also won for the whole region.  Way-to-go Kathleen!  Now on to State.  Wish her luck.  She is pretty excited.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

What We've Been Up To

I had fun with Cody in his class making jewelry with licorice and Fruit Loops.  The kids loved pulling apart the licorice.
 Brandon received a "Character in Action" award for Integrity at school.
 Brandon with his teacher:
 Brandon plays tether ball at recess every day.
 The PTA purchased new playground equipment for the school that was installed yesterday.  The kids had a ton of fun testing it out.
 We had a super fun FHE on eating healthy.  I bought a bunch of different fruits and vegetables and we tried them raw, cooked, and with dips to see how the kids like them.


 The kids also had a blast making valentines and mailboxes this week.
 Kathleen was really excited about this hairstyle I gave her.  Usually she won't let me touch her hair.  I was just excited that she let me scrub it with shampoo first.

 The finished products: