Saturday, February 27, 2016

Rylan's 9th Birthday Interview

What is your favorite color?  Gold
What is your favorite sport?  Soccer
What is your favorite book?  Star Wars
What is your favorite food?  Cake
What do you want to be when you grow up?  A soccer player or policeman
What is your favorite thing to do in school?  Silent Reading
What are you scared of?  Snakes
Where is a place you'd like to visit?  Pennsylvania
What do you like to do with Logan?  Play Star Wars Battlefront
What do you like to do with Presley?  Watch TV
What do you like to do with Harper?  Play pig fights
What do you like about mom and dad?  They're kind and care about us. 
What was the best thing about being 8?  Going to Disneyland
What are you looking forward to now that you're 9?  Getting bigger
What makes you happy?  Candy and being around mom and dad
What do you like most about our family?  That we celebrate Christmas together

Friday, February 26, 2016

Lea's Day-Lea's, Week 8 (2016)

Day 50, Friday, February 19th
Harper trying to learn to whistle. 

Day 51, Saturday, February 20th
Presley's HALF birthday tonight. 
TWELVE AND A HALF.

Day 52, Sunday, February 21st
Ski Day Today!

Day 53, Monday, February 22nd
A break from homework to play Hungry, Hungry Hippos at the counter with Cadbury Eggs. 

Day 54, Tuesday, February 23rd
Harper's HALF Birthday
SIX AND A HALF
(she requested doughnuts like Logan)

Day 55, Wednesday, February 24th
What a nice postcard from Rylan's teacher to receive in the mail this afternoon. 

Day 56, Thursday, February 25th
We played Bean Boozled today. 
It was so gross. 
Poor Ry kept getting the worst jelly beans (dog food, barf). 
Harper's worst was toothpaste and grass clippings. 

Thursday, February 25, 2016

February Decorations

We've been in our house for six months now and I have really enjoyed decorating each month. 
I don't have a whole lot of decor for upcoming spring/summer months.  

I used some things from January again because it was snowy still here for most of the month so it worked for another month. 


These little mailboxes have been around for several years now. 
Every year I have to re-glue the base to the mailbox part. 
The flag is up when they kids come home from school, and that means there's a little treat and a love note inside. 


Front Room







Dining Room


Half Bath

I didn't have anything extra for the downstairs this month. 

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Snapchat and School Pictures

I hit my home button to turn on my phone the other night and started giggling...
Logan had changed my home screen to this picture of himself. 
(In typical 14 year old humor, he also changed my auto-correct so that every time I text the word "Yes", it autocorrects to "No")

I asked him how he did this (and maybe threatened to use this picture as his Surf player picture), and he told me he used filters on Snapchat.
This kind of reminded me of taking pictures with my Dad's coke-bottle glasses and our eyes looked enormous...the 1980's version of snapchat filters.   
We all were silly taking pictures, applying the filter, and taking screen shots. 
Presley
Logan
Ry
Daddy

Then Logan taught us how to play with other filters on snapchat.
And we laughed even more...
Harper Jean!

Luckily the kids' classroom pictures were very normal looking..
Rylan in Mrs. Peterson's 3rd grade class
Harper in Miss Ferrian's Kindergarten Class


Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Sunday Ski Day

We've been wanting to go skiing as a family for the whole winter, and we finally got to on February 21st. 
I haven't been skiing in years because I've always had a kiddo to stay home with, but I promised Dave and Logan that when Harper was in kindergarten I would go. 

Getting 6 people ready to go skiing takes a lot of work and preparation. 
We laid everything out the night before. 

Logan helped Presley put on her boots.

Logan and Rylan were making fun of me in the car, saying I was going to fall and have my goggles on upside down. 

We got up there and got Harper in her lesson. 
We had about 3 hours before we had to pick her back up. 
Mom and Logan on the ski lift. 
I think Logan probably thought this day was pretty boring. 
I was slow coming down, but he would go through the trees and off jumps and ski ahead and wait for me. 
Chair 1
Dave took this picture, but he then skied ahead of me, turned around and made it down this hill backward, instructing me as I made my way to the bottom. 
He told me I was good enough to do a blue run now.  
Chair 4
Presley was so sweet today.  She was a confident skier and was encouraging me and telling me if there was a steep hill ahead.  I rode up Chair 4 with her and she was telling me, "it's just like Chair 1 but longer and steeper."  
She was really fun to ski with. 
Rylan skied today with no poles.  He's got great balance and follows Logan pretty well.  I think he'd go a lot faster if Dave would let him loose. 

Logan's not in this picture because he's probably down at the bottom after going through the trees and waiting for us. 
He had fun skiing really fast toward me and stopping and spraying snow up on me. 

We had lunch and then Dave picked up Harper and watched her lesson for a few minutes. 
She mastered the bunny hill. 
Practicing her pizza. 
(This is basically how I skied all day)
At the rope tow

Dave and Harper had lunch while we went up Chair 1 a couple more times. 
Logan went through the terrain park and showed me a jump. 
Presley, Ry, and I went on a side trail that was not as steep but not very wide either. 
I think I did pretty well but I felt like I was going a lot faster because I couldn't do wide turns.  
Logan and Ry went ahead and met Presley and I at the bottom. 
Harper really wanted to go on Chair 1, but I didn't think she was quite ready so Dave and her did the rope tow. 

We headed home about 3.  

It was a fun family day, even though my calves were sore on Monday. 



Sunday, February 21, 2016

Lea's Day-Lea's, Week 7 (2016)

Day 43, Friday, February 12th
Celebrating Valentine's Day at school. 

Day 44, Saturday, February 13th
One learned to cross his eyes, one thought she had. 

Day 45, Sunday, February 14th
 Valentines Day with my loves. 

Day 46, Monday, February 15th
No school today because of President's Day and the kids played "camping" on the trampoline. 

Day 47, Tuesday, February 16th
A spring-like day in February is rare. 
I came home to find these 3 sitting on the porch. 
Harper was dancing to "Uptown Funk". 

Day 48, Wednesday, February 17th
These two talking soccer before bed. 

Day 49, Thursday, February 18th
Harper was having Logan guess the markers' scents.