Gymnastics

 Lauren & Hadley decided to switch from ballet to gymnastics. They are having tons of fun. 

 Olympics 2024 here they come! 

 love these two!

 I love that Hadley wears her "I love Pam" shirt to most of the practices. It's her 'sporty' shirt:) 

Miss Crazy would go flying off the beams in they'd let her, this girl has no fear!

Class Party

 We had a fun little Valentine Party in Lauren's class yesterday. 

 The kids all had a great time!

 They decorated mugs then got to have hot chocolate in them. 

It's so fun being able to spend so much time in her class, her teacher is now having me come in once a week and I'm in heaven! It's giving me the teaching fix that I need and I LOVE it! 

Blue Martini

 Last week I got invited to a fun night at Blue Martini with my neighbors Tina & Milissa. Tina's sister is the Events Manager at the new Blue Martini at the Bravern in Bellevue and it is super fancy. We were spoiled with a night of free martinis! 

Yum! 

This is a super fun place, I highly recommend checking it out. Every Wednesday is Ladies Night and they have fun live music! 

Phone Pics

 We've had some really beautiful sunny weather this month- it's been so nice to have some fun out in the sun!

 Hadley & Ben waiting to get Lauren off the bus, they think she is SO cool on the bus.

 Carsie & Benny on the quad

 Ben and his dogs, "Justin Bieber" & "Salena Gomez". 

Lauren & Ben got new scooters for Valentine's Day, they were so excited to have some sunshine today so they could ride them! 

True Love

 We took the kids to Red Robin and TCBY last night for a Valentine's Dinner. It's was everything you imagine a Valentine dinner to be and more...yeah right! Crazy kids who wouldn't stay in their seats to save their lives. We attempted a group shot at TCBY...not a single one worked out. Here they are for your viewing pleasure! 

 Lauren was not happy that Hadley got to hold Carson, she doesn't hide her feelings well. 

  Carson has had enough and Ben doesn't appear to even know that we are taking pics!

 oooh Lauren's starting to get  mad...

 Now she's really mad, arms crossed and all. 

 The group behind us was just thrilled with kids. 

 Feeling the Love

 We decided since no one else was cooperating we'd just take pics of ourselves. 

 aren't we cute:) 

 Now we've resorted to laying on the tables, I can't imagine why the table next to us was annoyed. weird. 

This was snapped right before Uncle Ryan made Lauren burst into tears. 

While this night was not exactly everyone's Valentine dream it was perfect in it's own way. A fun night with people we do truly love with all our hearts and it really doesn't get better than that. 

xoxoxo

Her dad IS Rev Kev afterall...

Lauren's class made a book about their holiday celebrations during Christmas time and now they are taking turns bringing the book home to share it with their families. When we were reading the book Kevin & I had a good laugh over Lauren's page. Every kid in the class wrote, "I like opening presents" but not our little Lauren. Oh no, she wrote about her love for celebrating Jesus. You know, Jesus- Mary & God's son:) Clearly she is very educated when it comes to the Bible. We laughed for a very long time over this one. But when your dad is Rev Kev it's only natural that you celebrate the real reason for the season!

**For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about with "Rev Kev", Kevin got ordained a few years back to marry our friends John & Aimee and they got him a shirt that says "Rev Kev" and I like to joke that we live with a reverend. 

Happy Birthday Kevin!

 Kevin turned the big 36 on Wednesday and the kids were so excited to celebrate! We woke up early and made him breakfast and gave him his presents. Lauren insisted on putting money in his card so it fell all over when he opened it- she thought it was the coolest most original idea! And she used coins- it was pretty funny actually. 

 Of course Kevin had a lot of help opening his gifts. 

 Then Hadley Jane came over to help Lauren & Ben decorate for Kevin's "surprise" party that they planned. The took it so seriously, and as you can see the decor was out of this world. 

 beautiful. 

 Then Hadley & fam came back at night for the big "surprise" and we celebrated. The girls convinced me that it'd be fun for me to give them some of my old dolls so I got them each a Barbie and a big doll. How crazy is it that I still have about 10 more in boxes...Ben is confused why I don't have any boy toys to give him. 

 Crazy Carsie!

 Hads giving Uncle Kevin the card she made him. 

 Homemade Twix for dessert! Notice Carsie on the side of Kevin. He doesn't want to miss any of the action!

Happy Birthday Kevin! We love you!!! 

Bingo Night

 Friday night was Bingo Night at Lauren's school and each grade was assigned a decade to dress as. Kindergarten was assigned the 50's. We procrastinated big time and didn't come up with the outfits until an hour before, but they worked! 

 short white socks are so not flattering on the legs!

 Ben made funny faces all night, he was in a silly mood. But he managed to win a Bingo game which was super exciting!!! 

 twins

 Lauren with her teacher and some classmates

 just the girls

 During the Bingo breaks they played Hokey Pokey and Ben was so excited! He said, "Hey, this is from my preschool!" and he got down! 

 Kevin is such a good sport at this stuff!

There was a huge turn out (they actually held it in the new WHS commons which is so nice!) and it was jam packed. Gotta love a fun & successful school fundraiser:)

American Girl Party

 A few weeks ago Lauren went to Gloria's (our neighbor) American Girl Doll birthday party. Her mom is super crafty and the party was darling!

 They made American Girl Doll necklaces, so cute. 

 3 generations;) Olivia clearly gets out in the sun more than us!

 I'm still trying to figure out how she did this- there were stars inside the cupcakes- how cute is that?!! 

 The table. If you enlarge the pic you will see that she had print outs of all the American Girl Dolls and had them standing on the table. So so cute. 

 Little mini cups of hot cocoa for the dolls. They were marshmallows with a dollop of chocolate on top and the curve part of the candy canes for the handle. They were darling. The pizza was cut into stars as well, you can kind of see it in the background. 

 She even print out pictures of dolls and stars to put on the bottom of the hershey kisses! 

And there was star fruit in all their drinks! Gloria's mom didn't miss a single detail, super super cute party!