Dance Party

It's cold and dreary and we were supposed to do our dance party in January. We turned on the music and danced the night away. By the time I decided to take some pictures, half of our group had left.

Silly face picture where I'm the only clear one. This one had me laughing like crazy!

 Papa Hensley was kind enough to keep the building safe and was sweet enough to dance with me. :)

I love a good reason to get dressed up! we had a fun night with the ladies!

PBR Date Night

On Wednesday afternoon I got a hankering to go see some bull riding, as it turned out... PBR was in town! Jakob's never been to PBR It was awesome!

Gosh I love date nights with you! 

 

These guys are such incredible athletes! 

Love this boy! Thanks for the hot date babe!

Mama & Bear

I was getting ready for church and Bear came downstairs all ready for church he then went back upstairs and came back down in a different outfit. I asked him why he changed he looked at me and smiled and said "Well, now we match!"

I about broke down in tears. This boy's heart is so dang pure! So naturally we had to take some pictures!

Oh Bear! You are so loved!!!

 

Stitch Birthday Prep

 E's birthday this year was rather last minute. She had wanted to do a Stitch birthday but in the beginning of January all luau decor was out of stock. So we decided to go with a craft themed party. I headed to the dollar store for a few random items and low and behold all of the summer stuff was out!! I grabbed what I could and a stitch party was set in motion.

We made water bottles. The prep for this was simple but time consuming!

I love my Cricut!!

I made a balloon arch and tissue papae flowers to decorate the wall. The nice part was this party was pretty easy to throw together. E loved the final result. 

I love being able to do these things for my babes! 

Aloha friends! It's time to party!

Zoo Day

 Papa was kind enough to let us use his membership and come with us for a date to the zoo. It was a much needed day out of the house!

We asked Sprout which animal he wanted to see and without question he wanted to see tigers. They were sleeping but he was very excited. 

 

 We just about had the zoo to ourselves as it was a chilly day. 

CHOOOO CHOOOOOO!!!!

Petting the sharks and sting rays.

We rode the carousel a few times. 

We conviced Papa to come too. 

I could not stop laughing at him sitting on the tiniest Red Panda. ahah

 

We took Roo to Find Dory. I don't think you could have found a better baby.

It was such a great morning!!! Thanks Papa!

Sprout Time

 

Real talk time: This boy. My Mama heart has felt so heavy and I've felt a lot of Mom guilt over him. He is a very busy, talkative, ever moving, hyper child who is full of so much LIGHT. I feel like he is constantly at an energy level of 11 and I'm constantly trying to ground him. I feel like I tell him to be still or to "shhh" 100 times a day and it genuinely breaks my heart. I feel as though I am trying to shove all of his energy into a box just because life happens and I need to deal with Roo, or chores, or all of the other things that take up a Mama's day. It is hard.

Yesterday morning was one of those heavy "Mom Guilt Mornings" where I was counting down the seconds until he got to go to school, when really I should just be so grateful he's mine & he's safe. Off he went, I picked him up and he told me happily about his day. We got his brother and sisters and they played outside until dinner. He came in ready to snuggle and my arms and heart were so ready to love on him. Here I was full of guilt for him not having a great day and he was just as happy as could be living his best life.

 

I climbed in bed and decided that the guilt needed to go. Will it be gone forever? Absolutely not. Do I need to give myself more grace? Yes. Could I be a little better and change my approach to Sprout by carving out some special time where he gets to shine in all his wiggly, talkative glory? Also yes. So today we broke out the Home Depot craft that I neglected to do for Valentine's week and I soaked up some time with this boy. Have I figured out a way to let him be himself and help him direct is energy? No, that will take time. But I'm putting the guilt aside and focus on things I can DO. Oh Sprout, you are so loved.

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 ;))