February

More of February's adventures! 

Ruby learned how to ride her bike! In true Ruby fashion, she just did it and wouldn't let anyone help her after the training wheels were off. We have a funny video of her screaming to not touch her while precariously peddling haha!

  

Rob and his workmate Clark have the same shirt. Clearly Clark is not pleased about it. They text each other whenever they wear it, haha!

Valentine's heart hair

We added a path on our side yard to make getting trash cans out easier and to cut down on the mud there since grass won't grow. It was a huge project, but we ALL worked so hard and got it done!

       

      

    

   

 

 

We got our seeds started for the spring garden, but sadly one beautiful day I took them outside to acclimate them and fried their poor little brains out. There's always next year!

The kids love hammocking!

 

We said goodbye to an old carseat-friend and traded it in for a newer safer one. So many happy memories of cute kids in that seat!

    

For school, we read the book How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World so we made an apple pie!

 

Cute note I found on my bed one night from Grace 

    

Emmi was not thrilled with starting solids

 

   

Emmi tried ice cream for the first time and was a HUGE fan. She grabbed that cone and wouldn't let it get more than a couple inches from her mouth!

Rob's ingenious garage fixes for storing the ladder and travel box

  

A quiet moment - this is such a rare occurance!

Ready for a bike adventure!

We love to FaceTime with our families. I love this photo sequence because it shows the nuttiness of the whole endeavor!

        

    

Starting to learn how to crawl

Bleh!

Graphic photo disclaimer! We had kids ding dong ditching our house multiple weekends in a row and one night they did it twice and so Rob was ready with door unlocked to chase after them. He actually caught them and gave them a stern talking-to which ended in a handshake and a gentleman's agreement that they wouldn't ring our house any more. That totally didn't stop them, but it made for an interesting night! In the process poor Rob scraped up his toe really badly

 

Christmas Ornaments

Every year the kids get special Christmas ornaments and we finally realized that our memories fail us year to year and we need to get photographic evidence of whose ornaments are whose from what year.

Grace
         

Ruby
      

 Benji
     

Emmi

(It's a blingy letter E, but she had a hard time holding it so I could photograph it :) )

January

I am so far behind, so these will pretty much be picture dump posts, but hey, I'm getting it on here ;)

We started off with my birthday. I had a lovely day and was spoiled by my sweet family!

The Curtsinger Tiny Titans performed at the Centennial HS game





Sunday morning shenanigans


Ruby and Malia are besties. They love animals, both pretending to be moms to them and pretending to be the animals themselves


New sunglasses


The kids LOVE puzzles and are so good at them!





We also made side tables for our bedroom to finally help it to feel put together. and lined the drawers with cute papers - my favorite part! Sorry about the terrible lighting!

   

And we added a cute feature to the laundry room which is the handiest thing that ever happened to my sock pile!