Life in February...yay, I'm catching up!

This month continued on with even more exhaustion, more house hunting, more offers on homes turned down, more paper work, ER visits for Mike, which has never happened since we have been together. It was tough for him. I felt so bad. The best part about this Month was my folks coming for a visit. They met us in Spokane and looked at several homes with us and ended up seeing the one we put an offer on and that we will be moving into. It was SO nice to have them here. This past holiday season we didn't do anything with my side of the family, no Canadian Thanksgiving, no American Thanksgiving, No Christmas or New Years and they were all together(yes everyone, even my brother and sister in law who live in Maryland were there), having fun. Playing games, making memories, hot tubbing and visiting. Needless to say I was feeling a bit lonely and so I was able to convince them to come down for a week. I have lots of pictures that may not be in order at all...

Its an almost everyday ritual to go to the gym and so my boys get into their rituals too, which includes hiding under the table at the entrance.  

Why not take a church selfie...why not?

My Mom is so funny, she came back from her favorite store Big Lots with these funny masks and so we took it easy and did them one night.

They are kinda scary eh!

We attended sweet little Remy's 4th B-day party, and that was lots of fun! It's always busy, but fun!

This bites its one of the only pics I have of all of them watching a show together b/c Mema's eyes are closed, but at least you get the idea...

Earlier in the Month, I was able to attend Vienna's Valentine's Party. Its always so fun to help out in her class!

This is Vienna's yellow table.

The weather has been really nice the past couple of weeks. YAY! We took Mema and Papa on a nice long walk while the kids rode on their 4 wheelers. Man they sure love those things. I'm so glad Santa brought them such great gifts this year! Thanks Santa!

Valentines Dinner wasn't near as thought out as normal considering we had just arrived from Spokane the night before very late, we put an offer on a home on Valentine's Day, despite that, we still had all the table settings, just not all the red and heart shaped foods. Oh well, there is always next year. Last year we had Grandma and Grandpa with us and this year we had Mema and Papa. Who could it be next year?

Vienna helping decorate the table even more.

Mema is helping us get all the Valentines stuff out, isn't she cute!

Papa, the love-bug, doing what he does best...reading a health book.

Our Valentine's Day spread!

It was yummy in our tummies and healthy too!

Because us adults aren't eating sugars, what a better way than to make an Easy Bake Valentines Cake!

Little did I know that it was a 2 layered cake with several steps and took quite a while, but the finished product was pretty impressive and much enjoyed by the kids.

Our V-day lanterns

This melted my little mom heart and she did it 100% on her own, in Free Time at school. This is a keeper for sure!

Here is the final product without decorations

Here is the cake decorated from left to right Everett, Vienna and Lincoln. They ate every bite!

This last group of pictures is so funny! This must be an American thing or simply a new thing b/c I have NEVER heard of it. At Vienna's school they had a huge celebration for the 100th day of school, where they did a whole bunch of 100 counting activities, asked them to dress like they were 100 years old. I love these kind of things and so I got into it. Peg and Alan came to the rescue and found us grey hair spray stuff and brought over some curlers of Grandma Grace's, necklaces and a vest too.

Here she is posing like she has no teeth...what a girl.

The best part though, was that she got to have Mema and Papa (her grandparents, who are much closer to 100 than I) to be at this celebration and hang out with her. She loved every minute of it.

Mema was in charge of the crown station!

Papa was in charge of the building a tower with 100 blocks station!

Here is her class dressed up

Here she is with the BEST teacher ever! We are going to miss her dearly. 

February was a whirlwind, but we made it and we got passed the inspection part of purchasing our home up there, so that means its ours unless financing gets tricky. 

We have 6 more weeks here in what I would consider the perfect home! 

5 bedrooms - all upstairs. simple but nice landscaping, a fenced yard, no neighbors in our face, a great neighborhood, a huge back yard, wonderful upgrades, a sliding door right out to the main level back yard, a beautiful porch cover, a hill in the back yard but with enough flat for a trampoline, windows that look out to the back yard for constant supervision, a pool and many other things. The only thing I will not miss is the slanted driveway. 

Needless to say, we are thrilled about this new business adventure! about the location, the people we are purchasing the practice from, being in a bigger city with much more to offer, being closer to Canada, big mountains and trees. We are excited to be in Noelle and Steve's ward, we like our new neighborhood, the school district and location to the office. We will miss Vienna and Lincoln's preschool, as they are wonderful. We will miss Vienna's great teacher, We will miss the few good friends we have but we are excited to explore a new place, meet new people, be in a new ward and make new friends. We have much change ahead, but change refines us and makes us better. 

Of course, last but not least, sweet little Owen Jack came into the world extremely quickly on Feb 26th. Now I have a niece and a nephew born on that day! Makes it easy to remember. lol. Lanae and Trevor's wedding anniversary is on Mike's B-day, my bro in law Steve and my Grandma have the same B-day and my sister Shelby may have the same anniversary as me...thanks for keeping it easy family! Too bad I won't get to see him until he is 4 months old :(

On that note, I will sign out. This week is Spirit week at Viennas school. Monday was "There's a Wocket in My Pocket" so wear lots of pockets. Tuesday was Pajama Day and wear your Cat in the Hat, Hat. Today was "Wacky Wednesday" so wacky outfit and hair. Tomorrow is "Fox in Sox" day, she gets to wear wacky socks and Friday is, "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" so you wear something blue and red. I'm sad to say I havent taken any pictures at all...mom fail. Oh well.