February extras

At the start of February, we hosted our monthly family dinner. Benny has been trying his hand at making wine and it has been quite a process. He was excited to get some feedback from mom and Katie. 

Eric also came down for the weekend so we got to celebrate his birthday!

Bonnie making her valentines for her class. 

We've done a few playdates where Riser could hang with the boys and he has enjoyed all the wrestling.

We've gone to have lunch with Bonnie at school. 

We got to spend some time with Grandma.

This boy keeps getting taller.

They were being explorers with their walkie talkies.

We had a fun Valentine's book club.

Bonnie got to go to a martial arts birthday party.

We played at the library.

Riser has been enjoying a dino dig kit Uncle Eric got him for Christmas.

It was a short month but a good one!

Valentine's Weekend

We don't typically plan much for Valentine's day but it happened to be a busy weekend this year. Bonnie's 100th day of school celebration was on Friday the 13th. Her assignment was to pick something she could glue 100 of onto a t-shirt to wear to school. She chose hearts with gems inside in honor of Valentine's Day.

That night her school had a glow dance fundraiser so I took Bonnie to the dance and we had such a good time!

Valentine's morning the kids woke up to a few goodies from us. 

We had pink heart pancakes for breakfast.

Then we decided it would be a great day for Busch Gardens - and it was!

I happened to snap this photo of Bonnie doing the height check when we got in because I wanted to remember which rides she was now tall enough to do. She clearly is well over the 48" according to their height check. However, her and Benny stood in line for DarKoaster for an hour only to be turned away and told she was still an inch shy. So I'm not sure what happened - but we didn't try any new ones after that and still had a great time. 

Riser and I waiting for them while attempting DarKoaster. My littlest Valentine.

On Sunday after church my small group girls got together for a girls brunch which was also very sweet and fun. 

Hope everyone had a great day and a happy birthday for Opa!

Love Bugs performance

Bonnie and the rest of the kindergarteners put on a really sweet Valentine's Day 'Love Bug' performance. All the songs were about bugs. Bonnie had a very short speaking role, and she practiced very hard for it! 

They all did a great job and it was such a sweet performance!

Children's Museum and Surge

With the weather being so cold this last month, we have been trying to take advantage of as many of the indoor activities that we can. I took the kids to the Richmond Children's museum one day that Bonnie had off school. 

I also took them to Surge Adventure Park another day. They could have stayed there all day long - and it definitely wore them out!