February 2017

Valentine's Day

The boys gave out pirate Valentine cards with chocolate gold coins and a bag of Pirate's Bootie in each one.  

We celebrated Valentine's Day with a fancy dinner at home.  Mom made Valentine coolers (cherry 7Up, grenadine, cherry, whipped cream and a licorice straw) which are now a family tradition.  The boys loved passing out Valentine cards and treats at school and came home with bags of treats of their own.  They each had school parties and mom and dad gave them a box of Sees candy.  Mom and dad gave each other a box of Sees candy too so we had about 4 pounds of Sees candy.  Sadly it all got eaten.  Mostly by mom.  Dang it.

President's Week/Ski Week

We love the random week off we get in February.  They call it ski week and apparently people actually go skiing during ski week...weird.  We stuck around town and had a great time enjoying some adventures of our own.  We made a trip to the Safari Park which was a treat because James doesn't usually get to go with us now that he's in kindergarten and at school everyday.

Silly Boys

They each got to pick out a treat.  Foster had cotton candy and James had chocolate ice cream.

They both insisted on this photo, that was a first.

We also went with the Warren's to Point Loma's public market and park.  We had a great time watching the planes fly over us and climbing the rocks that bordered the bay.  We love spending days with the Warrens.

These four had a great time playing on the playground together.

Watching for airplanes.

Foster and Charlotte are quite the duo.

We even made it to Disneyland.  It was crowded but worth it.  We went to a special annual pass holder section of the park where the boys did crafts and Foster and I took a pic with Sheriff Nottingham and Prince John.

Foster was a little worried about Sheriff Nottingham.

Foster and I rode the carrousel while Mi Ani and James rode Dumbo.

Main Street at Night.

And last on the ski week itinerary, we took the boys bowling for the first time.  The Thompson family joined us and the kids loved it for about 20 minutes.  Then they were ready for some pizza.

Ski was awesome, we had so much fun and we didn't even have to ski.

Honorable Mention

Foster and his frog

We had some crazy weather in February, lots of heavy storms.  Some so heavy that the creek was overflowing.  One night Scott and Foster braved the rainstorm and went out to explore.  They came back with this little frog.  Foster had so much fun looking for frogs and being out in the extreme weather with dad.  James and I were cuddled by the fire, most likely watching Jurassic World.