The shortest and longest.

It's been a HOT minute since I've updated this with challenges to uploading photos and I thought the blog was a thing of the past...but, alas, it worked...even if the pictures loaded in reverse order, it's something.

February is that SHORT but LONG month!  The one filled will ALL THE THINGS...including a break to California (special separate post for those adventures coming soon).

We ended February at the Leanne Crawford concert and sung our hearts out as a family!  She is my favorite and getting to see the girls enjoy her and what an amazing role model she is!  :)





Guess who's back...running in the sun and truly enjoying this season of training!


Mission Accomplished: Create AWESOME hat for HCA!!!


Made it to the 100th day of Kindergarten...and also a HCA Spirit Day!


Griffin and Mom date...power went out so we grabbed a special dinner on our way to guitar...and even got to meet Mr. Cloud.





Reward time...not even sure what it was for, but these 3 got $5 to spend on Pokemon cards for something!!!

Ladies pamper day....Hair and Nails and Toes and ALL THE THINGS!!!!


Ready for LEGOLAND!!!


Walking warriors!

Valentine's Day :)

Sweet hugs for Lola Mae before we said goodbye.

This KID....after much prayer, he decided to apply to go serve in Mexico with church this summer.  Spoiler alert...he got accepted and we couldn't be more proud of his heart for service.

Girls Basketball wrapped up...and it was a fun season!

Millie enjoyed learning and growing and I can't wait to see her improve through the years to come.


Decades Day...and these kids are so cool!  Flash back to the 80s for the little and the 90s for the bigs!

6th grade Mom's Night out...such a fun evening with new and old friends.

When he sets his mind to something...

Sleepy kid plus the girls...Winter camp was exhausting!!!

Mini Date night...dinner out and a little pop a shot!


This kid spent a weekend away at winter camp with his church crew...such a special group of kiddos!


And then we ended up with snow too....


The precamp send off!



When you hit F45 at a time that is not before dawn...you run into a different crew.

Snow Day = Buy a NEW truck for Rich

When everyone is home from the snow and you are just happy for the hot coffee and a blooming amaryllis and making lunch for the kids....it's like the covid days but amazing!

And yea, the washer went out and the new one came on the snow day!


A family that works out together....drives each other crazy a little less!




More snow...but this year they are old enough to dress themselves and play outside without mom.

So I get to send them out...and stay cozy inside.


Another new puppy friend...this is EMBER.

When the piggy bank get turned into a gift card.

Doing something with the Mr...not sure what?!?!

So February brought snow and a new truck and a kid applying for a mission trip and date night and pamper days and....of course, ALL THE THINGS!

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