February Cold!

Well this is by far my hardest month of the year, we've been going through winter, yet we know Spring is coming soon, but we are still so much in winter...this is where patience is a virtue.  We know all the months give us our year and to find blessings in the things you don't actually like is the key.  So in my hope to be more optimistic, let us see...what can I say about February?  Madelyn's birthday is in February, ok...lets go with that. haha.  Only 28 days this year...that's a good thing in itself.

We attended for a short time, because it was really cold, a bom fire.  It was fun and a huge fire out at Mr. Hanson's land.  The kids had a great time, Me and the little ones eventually ended up waiting for them in the car.  Cute Tony stayed awake because I had told him he could have hot chocolate when we got home, I guess he was quite certain he wasn't going to miss that.

A New but really Old project

So this was fun, I've always taken a picture of the kids on their first day of school so I found the pictures and I made a copy for each of their school books and made myself an album with all the First Days.  On the back of the page, I put the first kindergardener or I put the Senior or the College First Day.  So its neat to look through an album with only first days.

Katie at work...

Katelyn at work, snapped the pic when me and Maddie were having lunch there.  She really likes her job.  

She's learned some important lessons, she knows how to work hard, get her work done and work together with others.  On the other side she has also learned how drastically different teenagers of the world are, and how different our family and our friends are.  She has never been around public school teens and for the first time she has come to realize how fortunate she is for the life she has had.  Some of the talk of drug use, sex, and immorality has shocked her to think how these young people are ruining their lives.  She is also responsible for some very inappropriate talk being banned from the work place, happened to mention how she felt it was inappropriate and the manager agreed.  But its also a learning lesson of what is out there and how you get to determine the life you want to lead.

Baby love...

So things with Gwena are pretty great, her teething fussiness is tapering. She is napping a little better, but I'm in the market for getting her a new play n pack so I can put one in the girls room for day napping and start getting her used to a bedroom upstairs. I think Tony and me disturb her continuous sleep. The one thing about Gwena is she is in the stage right now of just being so in love with Mommy. Its such a glorious stage, the way she looks at me just melts me, this house can be quite busy and she enjoys the play time and attention but when I walk into the room, all attention no matter what is going on, goes to me. Today was funny, she was hungry and she did the sound like you would do if you see something really yummy like mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! and then wanted to nurse. Cracked Steve up. Steve calls her "pretty pretty precious" and she lights up and smiles so big. It is a beautiful thing to feel love back from your baby. Of course we love them, but when you can feel the love back, that's pretty darn special.

Comparison pic

Here's a new comparison pic, these are fun, some similarities, some differences but still fun to do.  You can't see it from the picture but when Gwena sits she sits almost identical as I was sitting in this picture and has the same fat arms and hands, but I haven't got Gwena doing it in a picture yet.

A little late...

Well we celebrated Maddie's birthday this week, I 've been so busy haven't had time to come chat about it.  Of course we had Mom/Daughter date, but then on her actual birthday we had cake and icecream.  We had invited her school friend and her sister over for dinner.  We made pizza.  Katelyn had gotten her a stuffed zebra (Maddie's favorite animal if you haven't guessed yet) and Carolyn designed and hand drew on a pair of tennis shoes, very artisticly.  I found a collective Precious Moments Doll (perfect condition at a second hand store so I got a major deal), an art set, and some construction paper and bracelet making kit.

Katelyn decorated the kitchen and made the cake, she made a cake pop surprise cake.  Pretty nifty, next time we know to spread them out more, but we premade cake pops then we put them inside the batter and baked the cake so inside the cake looked like big polka dots!  Pretty nifty.

Here's some pic's from her birthday.  Happy Birthday super Moo!