February Activities

-I've been posting my favorite romance movies for this month as a counter to scary movies in October. This was a fun one, I picked them out months ago so now when I post one I keep saying "oh man that one is SO good!" haha.

-Pierce, and sometimes Charlie, has been loving when we have Family Zingo nights (and Charlie crashing

-Larry decided it was time to introducing the kids to The Never Ending Story 1 & 2 (one of his favorites growing up). Pierce couldn't hang long, but girls seemed to like it. (2/1)

-Gwen LOVES playing teacher, so I dedicated some time for her and she read me a book, made me do math problems, we did recess, and more math problems.

-In having Larry do laundry a lot of fun things got switched around (love him for helping so I'm NOT knocking him helping out). I decided doing some sort of laundry item on a Friday night so I don't get distracted with my phone while watching my movie. One Friday I decided I should get the kids socks re-organized (they were just a tad chaotic). The bonus is I got the extra small ones together and put in our donation pile because we had just too many. I also got their closets moved back to normal (and moved out clothes that were too small to storage bins) so now all their clothes are looking better than they were before! 

The chaotic socks and underwear

-Workshops were fun this month, but because of plans on the days we ended up just grabbing and going so we built them at home. It worked, but I like it much more when we build them at the store so that's the goal for next month. Also, Pierce feels left out, so I had him "build" some Legos with his play hammer, he seemed to enjoy that.

-Lucy's coupon this month was Family Game Night where she chose the game. She chose Mario Kart, but since you can only play 4 at a time, Larry and I took turns switching off (between playing and taking care of Pierce) and we all had a lot of fun, it was a good night.

-On President's Day Marie was down so she took the girls out for lunch and to the Bean Museum for a fun afternoon. I ended up going to lunch w/Cindy and Tanny. We met up at Dees (which I haven't had it in so long and it was so delicious). The girls had so much fun with their Grandma and I REALLY enjoyed driving for the first time since my surgery, it felt so good (rather than nervous about if I could twist or what other cars would do).

-We had our first Screen Free Day on the 22nd and it went really well. Unfortunately, Larry had to get up REALLY early for a work thing so he was exhausted already. I found not being able to rely on screens a little bit was a tiny bit tiring haha. We dropped Cara off at a birthday party earlier in the day and then we went to Costco for a few snacks. We came back for naps and games (Lucy wasn't feeling great so her and Larry had a mini nap), we then went out to Golden Corral for dinner, which was fun for most of us (Gwen ate too much sugar and got sick) and it was a good day.

-Silly kiddo pics (Lucy silly hair 2/1,Gwen splits 2/1, Pierce with shirt up while playing 2/13, Cara waitress 2/22)