February 2015

In February I downloaded the pictures from Faith's phone. She still loves to take selfies! Here are two from awhile back:

February 1st was Super Bowl and we went to Joy and Jordon's house to party it up.

Tony made hot wings in regular, mango habanero and super ultra hot! I brought Samoa brownie bars. My favorite part was Katie Perry's halftime show and hanging out with fun peeps.

Sarah had said that all she wanted for her birthday was me to Photoshop some valentines for her youngest kids this year. I followed through and made the one where you add pink water balloons blown up as bubbles for Alaura,

and are you add pixie sticks or glow sticks as the light sabers for Noah. I was so excited that they turned out well and the kids loved them!

Here's Buddy on the 4th making crêpes. He's getting pretty good at it!

The 5th was his Chinese Bew Year program at school. They explained a bunch of things about the celebration and Christians part was, "why red envelopes?"

I just love this quote and wanted to include it. I "pin" things like this to my Pinterest board.

On the 8th The kids wanted to ride bikes

and Tony tried and tried to work with Christian, but he just wasn't getting it.

On the 9th I volunteered at the school helping with the book fair. Christian bought this toy were you built electric circuit projects.

February 13th was a Friday, so Bud had his Valentine's Day class party at school. He wanted his valentines to have dinosaur toys instead of candy, so I made these up on the computer and Christian hot glued dinosaurs to them.

Faith stayed up late the night before helping to make his valentine box. Christian requested a toilet!

Here are fakes plans before she made it, with Christian adding in injured people for some reason. I love how Christian drew in and labeled "butt." Apparently that didn't happen in the completed project.

They received cards and money from grandma Peterson and grandma Braegger and Tammy doorbell ditched them, but they what weren't originally home! Tony had taken them to boondocks and left me home as my valentine gift ;)

Wanted to get a picture of how dusty looks shaved. He's actually much happier without all the long fur.

He's actually just meowing and wanting me to pet him in this picture, but I love how vicious he looks!

And Skittles just looking like a cutie patootie.

The 16th was Presidents' Day and I had Christian do an experiment to see what cleans a penny better – – water, water with dish soap, or vinegar & salt. We only left them in one day and none of them did a great job, but the vinegar and salt did the best.

On the 19th it was Blue and Gold dinner for Cub Scouts. There was a pirate theme and Christian got to be part of a skit.

After the skits and awards, there were some games and mustache face painting.

February 21st we decided to tackle the DIY project of installing wood floors in the family room. We got at it early, moving furniture, removing the carpet and then spending the next couple of hours pulling up the pad and staples. The kids were huge help with this.

Tony started to lay the floor and I was assisting with marking the cuts around the heater vents, but when he got to the long stretches the kids joined in and we got that floor slapped down in nothin' flat!

We went to Home Depot to buy the edge trim and to mom and dad's to borrow the nail gun for the baseboards. The entire thing was finished before 11 pm. We love it!