Wednesday, February 25, 2015

More February!

 For Valentine's Day mom and dad went on a date with the Rowley's and Weir's while the kids were being babysat in the Long Beach building by Ashcraft building to pay for daughter's mission. The kids had a BLAST! We had fun going to dinner with friends and daddy laughed so hard at the restaurant he leaned back and broke the back of the chair! The next day we made homemade pizza in the shape of hearts for dinner and they were yummy!
 Mommy helped at Austin's school with Art to Grow On. Love how excited Austin gets when I come into his classroom!
 Look like Van Gogh?
 Grandpa is in town which we LOVE! Funniest game of Battleship I have seen or heard! Grandpa can't hear well so he kept yelling what?! The had to communicate b as in boy, c as in cat, d as in dog, or e as in elephant accompanied with a number so grandpa could understand. Austin thought Axel was cheating to help grandpa and the top of grandpa's board fell so he couldn't tell what he had already guessed and was frustrated. Grandpa was glad we had to end early to go to Taekwondo haha!
 We celebrated Chinese New Year in primary! Tom shared the Joseph Smith scripture in Chinese and the Spirit was so powerful! We ended with a dragon dance and the kids LOVED it!
A couple of days ago Austin asked if we could make bacon and make a smile for dinner? Here is my non-worthy Pinterest creation. The kids loved it!!

February 2015

 It took Austin 2 months to earn 100 stickers. He got to choose who he went on a date with and what we did. He chose me yay! We went to see the Spongebob movie. Love my boy!
 Two things Axel loves are soda and snuggling nonstop with mom or dad. We enjoyed a Fresca together and it was so much fun!
 We decided to try a new local place to eat and went to Paviche's and got the "Mercedes pizza", three different kinds of pizza. So good!
 Trying to step up our sandcastle building skills! Pretty proud of ourselves!
It is tough to get this girl out of her Little Mermaid nightgown and Queen Elsa costume from Halloween. I ordered a Minnie Mouse nightgown to mix it up so we can wash the other two. She was pleased! Wears these outfits all day long...not just to sleep in!

School happenings

 Austin won an award for reading and Math! Mrs. Dragovich does not give praise easily. So PROUD of Austin! We cashed in his free pizza at the Blaze and celebrated as a family!
 For the 100th day of school the kids had to make a project and Austin came home with his own idea of getting an empty plastic water bottle and adding 100 legs onto his squid. I helped with the glue gun but he did everything else. So fun!
 With tithing settlements in December, we were unable to send packages to our family missionaries for Christmas so we sent Valentine packages. Big Austin got numbchucks and Taekwondo headbands since he is serving Korean people in New York.
Sharanne got happy socks and globes since she is freezing in Pennsylvania. So fun to send these!

Love California in January!

 Still hitting the beach in January and loving it!!
 Made it to Disneyland with our friend Hunter over Christmas break!
 Our cousins got Disneyland passes for Christmas and we had a fun day with them!!
Austin is on the front row with aunt Cynthia. He loves to pretend he is asleep on Space Mountain in Disneyland!

Finishing Carolyne's birthday!

 This girl had 4 birthday cakes this week! Durham was born 2 days after her and we always enjoy a cake with his family;)
 Durham gave her the Little Mermaid with a couple of outfits to change into;)
 Opening gifts from her cousins at her birthday party at aunt Keri's house.
 Aunt Jenny made her an Olaf birthday cake and she LOVED this thing!!
 All of the kids got kindles for Christmas and it makes my days easier!!
The boys wanted to make homemade lemonade since we got a bunch of lemons from a friend and Austin read a book at school about making homemade lemonade. Looking at this picture reminds me how much crap we jam into our student housing townhouse of 1,000 square feet haha!

Happy New Year 2015!!

 We all went to bed early on New Year's Eve and headed to California Adventure right when they opened on New Year's Day! Carolyne is so into Sullivan and we were so excited we got to meet him!

 She was too cute in these Minnie Mouse ears!
 My boys waiting for the Frozen sing-a-long!
Frozen exhibit. Daddy went sledding with the boys, Austin made snow angels and we all threw a snowball even though we were not supposed too!