February

February stuff....

Castle with fighting knights by Campbell

Zebra by Blake

Getting our couches cleaned up and ready to sell. Since I'm writing this after the fact, I can say this about the couch ordeal. Sold them quickly to Gabe's coworker because he needed them & we had a new sectional scheduled to come in a week. Coworker let us keep the love seat for now so we'd have something to sit on. New couch delayed 3 weeks. Not gonna work. We're putting our house on the market and need to get it staged and professional pictures done soon so that it can be on the market for the Parade of Homes. Arg. Looked into renting a couch. Cost as much to rent for 1 month than to buy one, so we found a small one that would work from World Market (love that place, so happy they are back in Minneapolis!). It all worked out in the end, but oh my goodness.

Lest I forget the rug ordeal. Been looking forever for a rug for our living room. Just something simple in the size I wanted is hard to find. Finally found one online. It has a strong odor, so we bring it to the basement to air out for a couple months. Fast forward to today where I fall asleep on the couch while Blake is cuddling with me watching a show. I wake up and see this HUGE welt on his face. And lots of little hives on the other side. I about have a heart attack wondering what happened. All I can think of is that he was playing on that rug for an extended period of time. Of course now it's beyond the refund period, but after several phone calls, they are going to let me return it - for a full refund and pay for shipping, which I can't even imagine how expensive that is. I can barely lift one end of that thing. Phew!

Smashing pillow arms

Blake took this picture of Campbell

Took the kids to a little photo shoot for Valentine's Day. Campbell came home and set up her own little shoot. 

 

Kitty Kat & I had fun at the Hooked on Books fair. So many crafts and fun things to do!

 

Went Up North for the Bobber Stop Ice Fishing contest. We got skunked, but enjoyed a nice sunny day with great friends out on the ice.

 

Campbell found this icicle somewhere on the walk home from the bus stop. Wowzers!

Saw this when I was picking Campbell up from school. All the kids did these and they were out on display.

Funny Blake-ism: He was watching a show on the history of monster trucks. He comes running up to me: "Mom! It said mid-seventies! That's when you were born!" I don't remember telling him when I was born, but must have talked about it before.

Cabin

We had the kids put on 'Big Brother'/'Big Sister' tshirts to tell my parents the big news that I'm pregnant. Campbell was bursting at the seams with excitement to tell them when we got there late Friday night. She told them to look at Blake's shirt. They thought it said 'Big Boy' so they were like, 'Yes, he is a big boy'. Pretty funny. Blake put it on again for Ginia-mom the next day and she screamed. So fun!

Kids stayed in town again while Gabe & I headed up the next morning. Papa had spent a ton of time mading an awesome snow fort for the kids to play in.

Blake wanted a boy picture

There was a lot of snow. Gabe did some clearing/burning of the dead trees on the property line. Hard work, especially when the snow was up to his waist!

 

Don't even need a cooler for the Dave's Pizza!

First time not needing a trailer, we packed efficiently so we only needed a backpack and the little storage area behind the snowmobile. So much easier/quicker not to have to go get the big sled at Gabe's parent's cabin (dig it out  from under then snow) and bring it back to the parking lot to hook it up to the snowmobile. Then bring it back after we're done with it. We had stopped at the Dennis Kirk Outlet on the way up and got some nice modular helmets. So much more comfortable. We're getting kinda good at this winter crossing the ice thing.

Valentine's Day Surprise

Valentine's Day 2013.

Tried to do a double heart hairstyle I'd seen. Didn't quite turn out like I'd hoped, but at least had the cute clips from Rachy! Campell was very excited about handing out her Valentines this year. It's the first time she did them all by herself - writing all the names and taping little candies onto the Valentines.

Campbell's Valentines to Blake & me...

 

Heart shaped pizza for dinner (woops...a bit burnt).

After dinner we had the kids each open a present & inside were 'Big Sister'/'Big Brother' tshirts. Now that I'm 12 weeks, we thought it was time to tell the kids. Campbell opened hers first & didn't think anything of it, she just liked the shirt. Then Blake opened his. At first they thought it said 'Rambo', but then Campbell read it and said, 'oh, that's ok, we'll have Dede fix it' because Blake isn't a big brother. Then they figured it out and Campbell screamed super loud and long. She is SO EXCITED! Blake is excited too, especially that he'll be a BIG BROTHER. He wants the baby to be a boy. Campbell & Daddy think it's a girl. We'll see!

 

5.5

Happy Half birthday Campbell! We celebrated with a little cake when Daddy got home from work.

On your way to 6, sweetie pie!

 

Groundhog Sighting

We had only mentioned Ground Hog's Day in passing, so I was surprised when Campbell made this little groundhog. It looks just like one. Love the nose and the dirt.