February

This winter was the biggest dud on record.  I know some people loved it, but if you like skiing (and if you want water for the summer) it was quite the bummer.  We had shirt sleeve, 60 degree weather in February!  We honestly did not have a drop of snow on the ground at our house beyond January.  I like four seasons!   One particularly bright, sunny day that we didn't ski I took Seth to a jump rope clinic.  They performed at his school the day before and he thought it was so cool.  He brought home the flier and told him "maybe" which usually means it doesn't happen.  Then I realized it was the next day, so I took him, bought him a jump rope, and he had a blast.  I love that this kid has so many interests, and he's truly content to march to his own drummer.  We even had the chance to go get a Zeppes together, just the two of us, so it was really nice to spend a little alone time with Mr. Seth.

Valentine's Day is best dress day at school for the Valentine's Tea.  The kids escort girls in their class to the gym and seat them and bring them refreshments.  They all grumbled and were funny about it, but I think secretly liked it.  Seth and Ian were all over the best dress.  Luke not so much.  The night before we realized Seth and Luke needed Valentine boxes.  Seth still had last year's minion laying around, so we gave it a take two!  Luke didn't want to decorate, so he used his soccer cleat box.  He's just a tad bit obsessed with Lionel Messi!  Ian demonstrated with a lot of drama how he had to escort a girl on either side to the gym!

 

Luke and Jer have spent every Thursday evening since January in Preston shooting archery on a team with Boyd and Jer's friend from work.  Jer took this picture of Luke's "robinhood" shot when he shot into the back of a previous arrow.  Pretty cool.  He's really had fun and learned a lot.  In fact, their team tied for 2nd and are doing a shootout this Friday.  Jer got a new bow and apparently it all came back to him because he shot a 300 (perfect score) and a bunch of other great scores.

I was in charge of the Chinese New Year Party this year.  We had some stress with a last minute change of location, but it turned out fun.  We decorated the tables with oranges and gold coins and the kids made ram headbands and pulled wool in honor of the "year of the goat/sheep/ram."  This is a fun group to be a part of with a lot of cute Chinese kiddos and their siblings.