february in review

february went by super fast-but i guess we squeezed in a few fun activities...
the boys took off for the father and sons outing the first weekend- our ward camps at the girls camp up past ashton-so you have to snowmobile in, kent was brave and even took koy: todd and carter also came. kaden was so excited to ride his own snowmobile into the camp. koy loved when dad cooked little smokies on his snowmobile for a snack.
so us girls decided to have a girls night too-diane and hali and paige came up to rexburg...we went bowling and watched movies and painted our nails in the morning. it was fun to hang out!

kent was gone for valentines day-but we were happy he was working. i don't get much into holidays for us old people-i told kent i would rather he be nice to me all the other days of the year than just one day! which he is-

LOVE ISN'T A BIG THING, IT'S A MILLION LITTLE THINGS!

one of the little things that he recently did for me was when my car was in the shop being fixed. it was a super cold day like -21 when we woke up. so we went to pick it up and he said bring a towel, which i looked at him kind of funny. he started my car for me and went in and paid and then came out and scraped all my window for me and laid the towel on my cold leather seat. i thought that was so sweet, because he knows i hate being cold!

for valentines we decided to go have some indoor fun at blast off. the kids loved it, and i loved watching them run all over. brooke loved the rock wall and wanted to keep climbing, i didn't know on weekends that you have to pay for each climb-so i could only afford 2 times for her. she was super fast and even did the medium side.
even kelsi got in on the fun, she brought her two friends: natasha and nitchelle.
they had a big ball fight!

koy was crazy, i seriously couldn't get him to hold still even for a picture...i tried to catch him in the tunnels but he was so stinkin' fast. na na na na NA!

kaden got to play laser tag with the girls and was so excited.

we had some more snow fun this month too-we headed up to the farms above rexburg, it was a perfect sledding day: we actually had quite a few of these nice days, yay!

brooke i think would of never stopped, she was up and down, up and down, over and over.

koy loved to throw snow up and watch the dog chomp it, he did this forever and the dog never tired of it.

i love a day when the kids are all smiles!(and tired)

kelsi even hopped off the snowmobile long enough to go down the hill a few times.

kaden getting a ride back up the hill from kelsi.

kaden and kelsi went to the eye doctor and both needed glasses, they inherited my bad eyes:( kaden competed in his schools scholastic bowl this year. they take the top 3 students in each class to compete in a subject, kaden chose spelling. he did great- there was only 4 of them left in the last round and he missed his word: turquoise. he spelled it right the first time at home so it was not one we reviewed and he mixed up the u and o. he was pretty disappointed to not place, but by the end of the night he was alright. kaden is very understanding when he thinks things through-he gets that everybody has tried hard to get there and that he tried his best. on the way home we were talking about it and i said look the moon even thinks you did a great job...

it was smiling-i don't see the moon this way very often, so we're sure it was for kaden:)

kelsi looks super duper cute in her glasses but has chosen to wear contacts most of the time. kelsi was able to do baptisms for the dead for the first time-she loved being in the temple. and she really loves young womens-so does her mom! i guess i forgot how great a program it is and kelsi is just at that perfect age where whatever her leaders say is just wonderful(and she has amazing leaders). she comes home and does things without asking like cooking dinner, playing with the kids, reading her scriptures, doing family home evening. i love it! she is going to be talking in sacrament on Sunday about her experience at the temple...she says this is the not so fun part of being in young womens.

and here is the last day of february...we are looking forward to more days of blowing bubbles and riding bikes!!!