Please Pass The Blogger Ketchup - February 2012

So way back when, I made an attempt to catch up on all my blogging I had missed last year. Well, I didn't do a very good job. So here is my new attempt to catch up. One Saturday Emily was at a Birthday party that lasted 26 hours. I'm not kidding. I had the opportunity to go to a Women's Conference and hear TC Christensen speak. It was fabulous. I came home to the above sight. I won't tell you what game they were playing because then you would judge me, and we can't have that now can we?

My Great Uncle Ronald passed away and my Grandmother came from Dallas for the funeral. She was here for about 10 days at the beginning of February. We enjoyed her visit. The day before she left we had her and my mom and Lauren over for dinner. Since Valentines day was only two days away we had a little valentine celebration too, as you can see by the cupcakes pictured above. Then we played a little game I like to call, "How many different pictures can we take with one person". This is demonstrated below:

I made that game up right after my father passed away. Less than a month before he passed away our whole family had been together for Christmas (minus Sam who was in Mexico on a mission) and we don't have one picture of him with his grandkids or all of us girls with him or anything. Pretty much sucks. So now I make it my mission to never let a photo op moment pass by without taking full advantage of it.

Aubrey had to make a Complex Machine for the 3rd Grade Complex Machine Fair. She made a balloon popping machine.

Emily helped with balloon characterization

Getting ready for the big bang

YAY! It worked!

At the fair

Addy and I were doing a little shopping one day and she got all dressed up in the store said "Here mom, take my picture!"

Addy dressed Steve up one day after church.

I swear the kids are never in school. We have so many days off it is pretty ridiculous if you ask me. On one of their many four day weekends that they have had so far this year, I let Aubrey have a party with some of her crazy friends.

You remember our big wind storm? It blew our fireplace cap off. So we got a new one. Finally! We had an ugly green tarp covering it for months. This cap won't be going anywhere anytime soon. Although I'm now afraid if we have an earthquake it is going to fall into the house and crush us all. It was a pretty major event to install it. I wanted to ask to ride in the cap while it was being hoisted up, but I was pretty sure they would say no.

Almost there

TA DA!

And that about does it for February folks! Stay tuned for January....