February in a nutshell

Happy Valentine's Day!

I love making special dinners for holidays, so this year this is what we had:

chocolate and cheese fondue

 strawberries, marshmallows, fruit, pretzels, and bread to dip into the fondue; sweetheart buddies (I found a website that all sorts of "muddy" buddies flavors!  YUM!)

 Love Potion #9

 Valentine suckers - a kiss for you on Valentine's Day! Pucker up!

 Callie turns 3!

She pulled out a baby carrier and was so excited she threw her arms up and yelled Hooray!

 

Callie with her stash - a Sophia the 1st umbrella, baby carrier and Baby Alive, and a Dora backpack!

Callie's birthday party with family

  

 I saw this cake on Pinterest and had heard that it was pretty easy to make from sister-in-law who makes cakes, so I thought I would try it out!  I think it turned out really good - very forgiving and easy to hide your "mistakes"!  And beautiful too!

 Grandma, Ada, Tyler and Isaiah

 Callie, Scarlet, Aunt Staci, Harrison and Morgan

Callie got her OWN chapstick!  Now she doesn't have to use mine!

 

 This is a typical occurrence at our house lately!

 

TREE DAMAGE

 

We had a HUGE wind storm that blew down a rotting limb in our front yard.  I knew it was going to fall soon because it was already damaged.  Love the shade the tree gives the front yard, so I really don't want to cut it down.

LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW!

We enjoyed LOTS of snow days!  Callie actually got out and enjoyed playing in the snow this year.   As she was making a snow angel, she flung snow in her eyes, so she started crying.  Otherwise, she loved rolling around in the snow!

 Little Miss Mommy

 One of Callie's favorite things to do - walk around in my shoes!  Now if she could just help me get all the things done I need to do too. ;)

A fun way to pass the time away.

So we've been stuck inside for two days straight with this icy blizzard hitting us. Yesterday I decided it would be fun for Morgan to use her Easy Bake oven again since we have only been able to use it once since she got it. The first time we made a cake with chocolate frosting that actually turned out pretty tasty. This time we made Valentine sugar cookies. They were bite size and a bit on the crunchy side, but they smelled wonderful and tasted really good too!

We also played lots of games, watched movies, read, and made a special fruit smoothie. Today it has continued to snow (although no ice thankfully!) and there is a lot of snow on the ground. We've played more games, practiced spelling and math skills, played video games, board games, read, and used up the rest of the fruit smoothie ingredients. I must say, fruit smoothies are one of my favorite foods!!!! And they really are quite healthy for you the way we made them - vanilla frozen yogurt, skim milk, frozen raspberries and blueberries, 100% fruit juice, and a little bit of sugar. YUM!!!! My kids get so excited when I make them. I think we are all getting a little stir crazy though and would like to be able to get out for a bit. Not that I'm wishing for me to go into labor just quite yet or anything! That would stir things up a bit. The roads are probably pretty bad still and it is still snowing. You know it's bad when Purdue cancels everything for the past two days! I'm sure things will be up and running normally by tomorrow. Luckily I thought ahead of time and went to the grocery store on Monday before it all hit. I don't remember having a storm this bad in AGES!

A little snow and a little imagination . . .

It snowed last Wednesday, so after Tyler got home from school the two of them went outside to play in the snow. They made snow angels, ate the snow, and for some odd reason did face plants in the snow, pretending it was water and holding their breath while their face was buried in the snow! The big picture of Morgan above is what their face looked like afterwards! Silly kids! They had to be freezing! They have so much fun playing outside together. I was surprised how long they lasted! My little Eskimos!