February Phone Favorites

February, I started off kicking butt and then things rapidly deteriorated. I feel like I'm sitting behind the 8 ball. I started projects and was on a rolllllllll but then things came up and we had to hit pause. Regardless, it went by all to fast. Here is a round up of our Phone Favs.

this boy could push the button on his my vest for hours. 

There's something about a baby wearing your shoes. 

A sweet little gift from Gram. She's been sick with Covid and this was the sweetest little surprise. 

We made a million trips to Home Depot.

The sunrises in KC are some of my favorite sunrises ever!

2 pancakes for 2.22.22 & 2.2.22

Some of the cutest sword fights ever!

Jakob had Lasick surgery and he says it's a total game changer. His eyes were dry and scratchy for a few days, but now they feel great. Still dry some days but he's loving it and I'm not going to lie, I am obsessed. He looks so much younger without his glasses. My husband is a fox!

He had to sleep with little night sheilds for the first few nights and they made me giggle. 

Obsessed with his cowboy boots.

My amazing helpers cleaning the van at the car wash. 

Sending funny faces to Daddy at work.

Sprout could eat pop corn for every meal. Okay, March, we've got this! Time to finish up some projects, and kick some butt. (spoiler alert, I did not kick butt ;))

E is 10

+ E is one smart kid. She loves everything about school. She loves to learn and is a little sponge. If she isn't able to go to class because she's sick or of the weather she will cry. Bless her heart.

+E loves to read. not only does she read, she reads massive books. 700+ page books without even batting an eye. She has an amazing memory recalling the smallest details. I will often come upstairs after working out in the evening to find her still awake a book in her lap reading away. 

+E is creative. She is always looking up crafts online and trying to make up new little projects. I love to see the things thats he comes up with. Her art is getting better too!!

+E is one of the most thoughtful people I know. She knows how to read a person, room or situation. She specifiaclly goes out of her way to help people, leave notes, tidy a room, play with a baby, start a meal. She is always the first one to help and the last one to stop working. 

+She is the best mini Mama. She knows how to distract Roo in the most amazing ways. I watch her and think, man, she's better than I am. She just GETS it. If he's crying she pulls out a toy or if he wants something he shouldn't she hands him somethng else so effortlessly. I am just in awe of her. 

+She is a fantastic and at time, complicated blend of both Jakob and I. She has my heart, love of being with people, and energy, combined with Jakob's demeanor for knowledge, calm demenor, and stubbornness and eye for money. Its so strage to see how we have each played a roll in who she is becoming and I love watching her grow up into this incredible person. 

+E loves her friends and is quite social but more often that not will choose to be at home with us if given the choice. Her best friend is Lucy and I love seeing them together. 

+E's love language is words of affirmation and gifts.

+She love to save her money. She's so possessive of it and I love seeing her figure out ways to earn money. I was at the dinner table with her shorty after her birthday and I told her that I only had her for another 8 years and then she would be going off to school. She looked at me straight in the eye and said "Mom, do you have any idea how much rent is? Never mind, food, gas, insurance and a car. There is no way I want to be paying for all of that while I'm in school. No, I think I'll stay home fro awhile." My jaw hit the floor. What 10 year old thinks like that?! We'll see how she feels in a few years but gosh darn it I was proud of her!

+And to to reiterate and becuase I feel like I worded this well on Instagram, here is the caption about E from there: T E N. I have been a pile of emotions all day (but we'll save most of those for mother's day.) This girl. She's my best friend, her Daddy's kiddo, our Mini Mama, our world. She is compassionate, patient, loving, empathetic, strong, confident and unique. She understands things without being told, she is always the first to help without being asked, and tries her hardest to serve everyone. She loves all things Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and Stitch. She is creative and loves to make anything she can. She loves to read and will read 3-4 books at the same time. She is funny and I love our conversations that usually end up with us laughing until we cry. She's the best Mini Mama and can take care of the boys better than I can. When I grow up I want to be just like this girl. She is all the good things in this world. Happy Birthday Peanut. You are SO LOVED!

 

Oh and a couple of out takes because it was cold and snowing and I asked her to jump and they make me laugh!!

 

E's Birthday

This year we were trying to think of a theme for E's party and nothing was feeling right. We wanted to to a Stitch party but in February Hawaiian things were difficult to come by. So we opted for a craft party again. I could tell that she was bummed. then one day while at the $ Tree, I found a stash of summer things!! We were both so excited! Last minute change of plans and a Stitch party was in the works.

The day of her birthday was a very relaxed day. She went to school. I picked her up and we got a mint milk shake. 

We had Ramen for dinner and Papa & Gram came along with the Dyches. It was so good to be with people that we love! 

For E's special treat with Daddy, she picked out donuts due to tradition. She's big on things like that. 

I ordered this Stitch MONTHS ago. I knew what it was and so I never opened the box. When I went to wrap her gifts I opened the box and gasped. I thought that this Stitch would have been half the size. He was huge!!!! I mean I'm not mad but he was more than I was expecting for sure. I don't think E minds though. :) Happy Birthday beautiful girl!!! You are so loved!

 

Snow Magetton 2022

Once again Jakob left for a business trip and KC decided to throw down some freak weather. Last month Jakob too the company jet to a meeting and they had to drive two hours out of town because the wind here was so crazy. It was terrifying having him travel through that. I was so relieved when he got home. This time, snowmagatton.

Usually when we hear we're getting 4-8 inches of snow in KC we say, "I'll believe it when I see it." This time they weren't playing around. It dumped and it dumped HARD!!!!

Those are the bushes outside of our house completely covered in snow. We got close to a foot of snow. Naturally this completely shut down all of the airports leaving Jakob stranded in Alabama.

They decided to try and drive to Georgia to get a flight in there but quickly realized they were shutting down all flights. So they drove the 13 hours home.

 

 The snow stopped as fast as it had started so I decided to head out and shovel the driveway so that Jakob could get in. Nothing like a good ol Canadian work out. My back hurt so good the next few days! 

And he's home!!! Thank heavens. He rolled in at 3:00 in the morning. I was so dang happy to have him home!

 We couldn't let all of this snow go to waste. While i shoveled yesterday the kids played and squished all of the snow so it wasn't going to work for igloo's but we could absolutely go tobogganing. 

Snow is magical! 

I mean look at those smiling faces!!

I love a baby in a snow suit.

It was a great storm and once Jakob was home, my heart was so dang happy! This also kicked off the start of a six day long weekend due to snow days. The kids haven't had much school this year so far.

Valentines Week

 

In keeping with tradition I tried to keep Valentine's Week very low key.  My favorite part was that E surprised us with little things all week and made her brothers fuse bead crafts for each day too. She is the sweetest.

Day 1: You are Jaw-some.

 

 

Day 2: You're my favorite fish in the sea.

Day 3: You're such a gem. 

Four our activity Sprout and I baked the cake.

Day 4: Being You're Mama is such a treat! 

We had Root Beer Floats (You make my heart float.)

Day 5: Good Friends are like a treasure at the end of a Rainbow.

We did our fancy dinner for our activity. 

Daddy's days were wildly inappropriate as per the norm.

I started recreating the pillows I made for Jakob when we first got married. 

Our little Valentines corner.

 

We went to the dollar store to get some fun balloons. WE then Ran to Wal Mart and I opened the trunk forgetting all about the balloons and they all flew away. Everyone was broken hearted so we went back to the dollar store to get some more.

E got us little heart-o-grams from school. So dang cute!

Work smarted not harder!

Since Daddy was out of town for Valentines day we had pink heart shaped pancakes and they were delightful. It was a fun and busy week!