Valentines Day and Dipping Strawberries

We had a fun Valentines Day weekend with our traditional cookie baking and frosting, lasagna dinner by candlelight and sharing love letters to each other. Travis and Jaxon got roses and chocolates for us girls. Jaxon was so clever and distracted me while Travis brought in the goods. Such wonderful boys. :)

Zyanya helped us out this year, they had lots of fun!

The next Monday was a holiday and it was the day we picked for our annual strawberry dipping at Mamie's.

There were several times when Ginger just went in stem first and didn't even care.

This is always a fun month to spend together.

Violet's Ice Skating Lessons

Violet was so excited to get ice skating lessons for Christmas, and she has absolutely loved the experience so far. She looks forward to every Saturday morning when she can go. She's made lots of progress considering she was a wall clinger the first two times.

 

We see no reasons to stop now. She loves it so we'll keep going for the forseeable future. Way to go, Violet!

Just Around the House

Our January was pretty relaxed and...long. We got around to putting away our Christmas decorations mid January, it was that relaxed. I'm just glad it's right after Christmas so at least the kids have all these new things to entertain themselves with. :)

Grammy and Pappy gave us a years worth of car washes and we've gone out of our way a couple times just for the heck of it. The kids love it! They wish we lived closer so we could go every day.

It actually hasn't snowed that much overall this season, but we did get a couple good storms. The kids have been able to work and play together in it.

We invited Britian and Laykin over to play during the break.

Ginger graduated from nursery and is now in Rayitos! She's the youngest in her class and she's had a tough time adjusting. She's usually so independent but for some reason, even with me right there in primary, she cries and cries. Going to class is worse.

With her wonderful nursery leader Hna. Perez.

Then a week or so ago she comes out of class with a big cupcake and a smile. Smart teachers. She still struggles a bit, but is slowly getting used to primary.

Ginger also got some puppets for Christmas and the older kids especially have fun making movies of different shows.

Grammy and Pappy also got the girls dress up clothes which they have loved to death.

Beckham wanted to dress up too. 

 It's been nice having somewhere nice for Ivy to lay down during the day.

More time inside also means more time reading and LOTS of trips to the library.

Violet sharing her hair. Still haven't gotten around to the cutting. Gotta do that.