February 2022

We celebrated Valentine's day at home and at school!  The at school celebrations tend to look more like Halloween with all of the treats they end up bringing home! Everyone had a great day filled with lots of love!  In February I put a heart on their day every morning until Valentine's Day with a reason why we love them.  Julia started leaving hearts on our door for Daddy and I and this one was the sweetest!  

The Valentine's Day haul from school!

With Rich taking on the painting company we figured that if we were going to promote it, we had to be proud of the way our home looked, so we had it painted by his company in February!  I love how it turned out and am so thankful that the peach is gone!!!  It was a little stressful with Hunter since the back was all taped up and the painters were all over the place for about ten days but it was so worth it!  

Joseph found a lizard that had been painted white when we got the house painted-he must have been hanging out on the side of the house-too funny!!! 

Hunter continues to get bigger each day and into more and more mischief.  Definitely staying busy with him.  And he still isn't sleeping through the night so I continue to sleep on the couch since he is still waking up multiple times but I just keep reminding myself that all of this hard work will be worth it...someday :). The kids are SO in love still, even more so that his puppy teeth are falling out so his bites don't hurt as much.  

We had a few beautiful days in February that called for lounging in the sun in the backyard!

Hanging with Murphy!  They seem to get along well!

We had a week off in February for ski week and didn't travel anywhere this year so just had fun making memories around here.  There were a few rainy days so we went bowling one afternoon and ice skating another.  It was a great week just being out of the school routine together! 

We saw Art and Julia there so he offered to take a photo which I appreciated since I'm never in them!

A little street hockey with Cole one afternoon...in Sydney's helmet and skates!  

We went ice skating for the afternoon one day with the Ozecks which was great!

We also checked out the La Jolla caves with the Clintons which was something we have never done before.

We hung at Nani and Poppa's for the day and these crazy kids were in the hot tub!

We had friends over for dinner, swimming and smores!

We celebrated Ella's birthday almost 2 months late with a sleepover with some of her besties.  They had a blast!

We checked out the "teen club" at the Westwood club which we have never done before, too.  

Hanging around at the community park is almost a daily occurrence these days.

Selfies.  Always!

The girls also celebrated the 100th day of school!  So much fun in TK and 1st grade!

Naptime with Daddy one afternoon.  

And a little game of Uno one day.

Baby James turned 1 on March 1st so we celebrated his birthday the last weekend of February.  We are so Thankful for this sweet little guy and the joy he has brought to our family this past year!  

What a fun month!!