Caitlin and Emily celebrated Catholic Schools Week at John Ireland thefirst week in February. Each day they did something different; either dressing as their favorite character in a book, having a movie day, or dressing in their school colors the day the bishop visited. On their favorite character day, Caitin dressed as Nancy Drew and Emily was the Cat In The Hat.
We went to our friends house for a super bowl party-none of us cared really who was in the super bowl or who won the game. I just wanted to go for the food and conversation. :) Which was all good!
Last weekend we traveled to Iowa to celebrate our niece Abby's 10th birthday. This was the first time in a long time that we had perfect traveling weather. No snow, sleet or rain to contend with. It was sunny and warm and our annual nature walk down by the creek didn't disappoint. The first thing we saw was the remains of a deer-just the rib cage-pretty cool for the kids. I thought it was gross. We saw a squirrel tail-just the tail...a dead crow, lots of yellow snow and poop. Near the end of our trek we built two big snowmen-we called them snowmen-alope because they had antlers. When my brother-in-law sends the pictures I will post them. It was such a good time and we look forward to it every year.
Sunday, we celebrated our goddaughter Lydia's 3rd Birthday. It amazes me that she's 3 already. Quite the energetic little lady! And super cute! We all had a good time. :)
Valentine's day came and went-Lots of candy for the kids and a nice meal at home. ( i made it and did the dishes after-romantic, I know!)
This past week has been a busy one, but Wednesday night was the highlight of the week. Caitlin, Emily and I went to the Chris Tomlin concert with my friend Gina, her daughter, Sydney and met up with my friend JoAnna, her mom and two kids and our priest Fr. Phil. It was the first concert for my kids and they had a blast. It was nice for Gina and I to watch our kids together. Little did we know that this is where our life would lead us. It really was priceless... My friend JoAnna, who lost her husband this past fall got back stage passes to meet Chris, whom her kids love and it was such an awesome experience for them. I will post pictures as soon as I get them from JoAnna.
