February Happenings

To celebrate Valentine's Day Liz put hearts in Sarah's and Whitney's hair.  They helped decorate our table for breakfast with lots of Valentine flair.  Even cold cereal tastes better when you have great table decorations.

We "heart" Sarah!

We "heart" Whitney too!

Our Valentine's Day breakfast feast

Sarah and Whitney both participated in Junior Nuggets basketball this year and had a blast.  The Denver Nuggets are Colorado's NBA basketball team, so the Junior Nuggets are the teams geared towards kids.  After the season ended, we were given free tickets to see a real Nuggets came in Denver!  We turned it into a weekend trip with our friends the Baileys.  The dads took the older kids to the Nuggets game Friday evening while the moms stayed at the hotel with the younger kids.  The next day we again swapped watching the kids so the adults could visit the Denver Temple and the kids could swim at the hotel pool.

Sarah teaching Michael some basketball moves

Whitney loved socializing with her friends before, after, and even during games.  During one game she had a friend on the opposing team, and they spend the whole time "guarding" each other as they chatted and ran back and forth across the court.

Sarah is growing up more each day.  She got her braces put on recently and enjoyed picking out fun colors for her bands.

Sarah looks as cute as ever in her braces

Brooklyn got a scab on her chin and kept picking at it and wouldn't leave it alone.  Spencer did the same thing when he was her age, so we tried the same trick with her that we did with him.  Namely, we put gloves on her hands whenever we laid her down to sleep, and strapped them into place with duct tape.  Within a week or so her chin finally healed.

If the gloves didn't work our next step would be to use a straight jacket. :-)

Spencer was Brooklyn's age when we had to do the same thing for him.  His case was a little more complicated since he was a major thumb sucker.  We cut thumb holes in his gloves so he could suck his thumb at night.  We covered his scab with a bandaid and duct tape.  It seemed to take forever before it finally healed!

Lately we've been alternating between warm sunshine one day...

...and snow the next.

But regardless of the weather outside, indoor board games are always fun.