February Happenings

Even though February was super cold this year, that didn't slow down our fun and craziness!  Clive Elementary has their annual Fun Night in February.  The week leading up to the big night is full of fun activities and daily themes.  One day was Dress up as your favorite book character.   Will was the mouse from "If you give a Mouse a Cookie."   And Kate was Charlotte from "Charlotte's Web."   They loved dressing up each day. 

Brett wasn't able to go to Fun Night with the rest of us as he had much bigger engagement to attend.  This year he and a few other architects in his office were invited to attend Bravo, which is a huge gala held each year at HyVee Hall.  It's a pretty prestigious event in Des Moines, and I was SUPER bummed when I found out spouses were not included on the invite.  I could have totally pulled out my prom dress from 1998 and stepped back in time again with my cute honey!  Just kidding!  But I would have loved to buy a NEW dress to go along with him!   I can keep my fingers crossed  for next year!

Random pics of the kids in their footy pajamas that they were just begging to have! Will only wore them to bed 1 night and soon realized he couldn't get them off quick enough when he REALLY had to go potty and created a problem for himself :) 

And Kate doesn't like feeling cold when she pretty much has to undress to go the bathroom when she wears her pair.  So we decided that these PJ's will be worn as lounge wear only and they will change out of them before going to bed. 

We had a late Xmas celebration with Clint and Grandma VZ again this year.  Always fun to have celebrations in the dead of winter to keep things exciting!

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Will decided to put a gift together for Opa from him all by himself.  I had no idea what he collected from his room and wrapped up.  Turns out Will wrapped up a handful of marbles in a box for Opa.  So all night we teased Opa that Will must have thought "Opa lost his marbles!"

We got out of the house and visited the Botanical Center while Opa was visiting too.  Kate found a really neat craft table and we worked together to make this beautiful picture together. 

On Valentine's Day we decided to make our own chocolate covered strawberries this year.  YUMMY!

And the kids were real troopers bundling up each day to get on the bus for school.  We would bundle up and head outside in the cold, but as soon as the kids got on the bus they stripped off a few layers because the bus was toasty warm.  Amazingly we didn't lose any gloves or hats this year!  Way to go Kate and Will!

Finally,  some other random pics from our Februrary Fun.   Will got a new book "The Pirates who lost their Underpants" It seems like little boys just LOVE to joke about underpants!  Why is that??

Another theme day was Crazy Hair Day.  I think we did pretty well this year!