Busy February

Like the new look of my blog? I finally found the time to change the layout a bit. Boy, it's been a busy February here. My mom came to visit for a week and in that time we celebrated both her birthday and Hayden's birthday. Then the following weekend Gran and Gramps were here and we had Hayden's "puppy party." He's been looking forward to this party since before his 2nd birthday. We had the party at the treehouse playscape @ Glenview Baptist. A couple of his friends from MDO came as well as his cousin, Ellen. Everyone had a real good time.

During Mom's visit we painted the boys' room (in anticipation of putting them together in bunkbeds); volunteered twice in Carter's classroom (Valentine's party and 100 days party); had lunch at a local tea room; played putt-putt golf with the boys; and just generally enjoyed each other's company. Can't wait till she comes out again in May.

blowing out his 3 candles

puppy cake

friends!

golf with Grammy

Mom and me

Grammy and her boys

100 days of school activities

Happy 3-year birthday Hayden!

The big chill

Monday they were predicting some precip with cold temps and Carter's teacher mentioned they might cancel school on Tues. Sure enough, school was canceled even though it was 50 degrees and dry outside. Probably a good thing since it sleeted all Monday night and we awoke to negative temps and a sheet of thick ice covering everything. I thought we'd return to normal on Wed., but since temps never made it past the teens, the ice never melted. School was canceled Wed. and Thurs. Rolling blackouts. Lots of accidents. Mommy and boys going stir crazy. Heath came home early Thurs. afternoon so I could venture out on a much-needed trip to Target (and the dollar store). He was so sweet though--he drove the roads I'd be on just to make sure they were safe. :) And now they've canceled school for Friday.... Growing up in the mountains of NM, we only had school canceled on the extremely rare occasion-and never for more than 1 day.

On a funny note, my kids were overjoyed when I brought home a whoopie cushion from the dollar store. Carter had wanted to get one since he saw them in his fundraising brochure. Only boys......