Valentine's Day

I was out of the state for this past Valentine's Day (more on that later), but I made sure the kids had their traditional treats.

Everything was organize and ready for Valentine's Day.

Showing my love from two states away.

 The kids also got Valentine's from mine and Shane's moms. I didn't get any pictures of the ones from my mom, because I wasn't here, but here are the highlights of Shane's mom's treats:

Lollipops!

Ari's broke, but that that didn't stop her from enjoying it.

Mmmmm....

Kaden was supposed to bring a valentine's box for his class party, but I was crazy busy with getting ready to go, so I tried everything to get him to just accept a store bought one. I actually even bought two different ones (Turbo and Ninja Turtles), but he was adamant that he needed to make it. *sigh* Alright, fine. We found an idea off of Pinterest to work with that he approved of and, an hour later, had this beauty. I made him to most of the work, although I did help a little.

It was his idea to add the pokey out things on the back to make it look more real.

What's a turtle without a shell?

He did a great job with it and I'm glad he was so proud of it when he took it to school.

Park Visit

Remember how I said that we've been going stir crazy around here? Well, on February 10th the weather was GORGEOUS, so I told the kids it was much too pretty of a day to spend inside taking naps. They didn't believe me at first, but were so excited when we pulled up to the park near our house.

Dramatic, much, Lexi?

Lexi can't go down a slide without making this face.

It was our first park visit for 2014 and it made me ecstatic for more to come!

Jared Parker

My newest nephew (yay! a boy for Kaden!) was born on February 6th at 9:50 pm. He was 7 lbs 11 oz and 20.5 inches long. Suzanna went natural because she's crazy. haha Kidding. Sort of.

I went to visit first thing Friday morning while Shane was still home so that I didn't have to worry about the kids. They aren't allowed in a newborn's room anyway, but it was nice to have baby Jared all to myself for a little bit. I went slightly picture crazy, but he's just so cute!

The first picture I got of him.

A week old in the onesie I bought for him.

Random

As I said in the previous post, it's been kinda boring around here with all the sicknesses we've had. So I'll just do a big, random post rather than multiple little ones.

Feb. 1st - Kaden lost his 2nd tooth! Almost exactly a month after the first!

Lexi tripped and slammed her face into a toy dump truck. :(

Best friends

Goofin' off

I made the kids try a fireball. The videos are hilarious, but I can't get blogger to load them.

Kaden LOVES drawing.

This is a picture he made for our friends in Wisconsin.

So, I have to take a minute and describe the picture (if only for my future reference since we mailed it off). Kaden said that ReAL Salt Lake (soccer) and the Utes football team switched games for a night, so this is Utah playing soccer against BYU. Kaden is the fan saying, "You are best," our friend Danny is next saying, "Go Utes!" and he ended with Danny's wife, Steph, saying, "I (heart) Utes!" Kaden told me that the heart means she's saying "love" not "heart." I love that he's turning into a great, creative little artist! Much better than I could do - even now.

Bored

I swear we've had more sicknesses run through our family this winter than ever before. (Thanks nursery and preschool and kindergarten!) So we've been super boring this winter. Every now and then, all of us get a little stir crazy and we head out somewhere fun. At the end of January, the kids picked Red Robin to go to. :)

Ari refused to look at me.

I'm so ready for spring and summer!

Kaden's haircut

Kaden had his hair cut once at a salon when he was really little, but Shane's been doing it ever since. I took Kaden in at the end of last month for a haircut at the Roy ATC because it's cheap and won't leave hair all over my house. ;) Kaden was a bit nervous, but did great by the end.

The girls did great waiting fairly patiently in a swivel chair spinning it as fast as they could.

Hams

Kaden wanted it spiked (new thing because of other boys at school), but his hair is super thick, so we'll have to "train" it to spike up. He's growing up. *sniff*