The name of the game around our house the past couple of months have been projects. For my birthday I told Chris I wanted to decorate the bedrooms which turned in to crown molding throughout the house, a laundry room make-over and some furniture up-cycling. Chris is my favorite human and usually jumps on board with my schemes. We are still putting on a few finishing touches but we are almost done with all the projects I set out to do. We have, however, added a few more to the list since then that have yet to be started. I tried to take pictures along the way and will do a total before and after post of all the projects soon.
Kaden participated in his first Blue and Gold banquet. They had a cake boss competition and Kaden opted for a volcano cake.
Kaden also had his first pinewood derby this month. Surprisingly I didn't get a picture of that. Sadly his car wasn't the fastest...or even close to it. Chris vowed next time around he is going to really figure out the tricks and make a car that wins. Kaden didn't seem to care one tiny bit about winning or not, he was just thrilled to be there and when the night ended with twinkie cars, well, it was just the best in his books.
Kaden finished up his first season of basketball. He ended the season far better than he began, and always had so much fun playing. There is still a lot of room for learning but I think it was a good experience for him and he will be eager to play again next year. Baseball has already started and he is so excited to be playing that again.
Cookies!! I have been making SO many of them. For almost any occasion I find myself whipping up another batch of these delicious cookies. I have even sold a few dozen.
For my birthday we had some of the Clayton family up to visit. They helped put up crown molding downstairs and were excellent shopping companions for my bedroom makeover. The kids adore them and it is always so hard to say goodbye. We are so happy that we live close enough now that the time between visits is much shorter.
My cute Valentines this year
Chris made me a delicious raspberry lemon bunt cake for my birthday and gave me a beautiful boquet of roses and lilies.
Taycee and Kaden both did an educational extravaganza at school this month. They spent all month learning about a chosen subject (and Kaden had to write a report) Then they had a presentation night at school. Kaden chose to do his project on Albert Einstein and Taycee chose to do hers on lipstick. (are we surprised?... no) Both kids did such a great job learning about their topics and doing different experiments. On the day of the actual presentation I was quite sick so we didn't go to the open house that night. I felt terrible after all the work they had done. They didn't seem to mind though, their poster boards were there and they had shown their friends and teachers at school that morning.
Taycee actually made her own lipstick for her project and we put together a little film.
Taycee has also started gymnastics about a month and a half ago and she LOVES it. Of course I have a feeling she would LOVE anything. She is just that kind of girl. She is quite good and I get frustrated that they don't push her to do more during class. The gym has a competitive team that Taycee wants to be a part of but that requires A LOT more time and money and I am not sure we are in a place to be able to do that right now. It kills me though because I am sure she could go quite far.
We bred Phoebe this last heat cycle. We are hoping for pups next month. We can't tell yet if she is pregnant and I don't know that we will be able to tell for a few more weeks. Which is funny considering if she is pregnant she will be having pups in about 5 weeks. I will be a little frustrated if she is not pregnant seeing as we had to drive her down to Portland for the stud and the stud fee was $300. Here is to hoping we have a few pups to sell in the next few months to make up for that. :D
Brielle gave herself a full frontal chop a couple of weeks ago. When I found the pile of hair on the floor and her stubbled head I wavered between tears and nausea. The tears won and I sat on the floor and cried. So silly, it is just hair but man on man she had a cute head of hair. We we a lot of hats and headbands now and maybe in 2 more years it will look normal again. In the meantime all scissors have been relocated to the top of the fridge.
And that just about wraps of February. Hopefully I will have all of our projects finished and pictured soon!
