February (2021) highlights

February 2021

It looks like the photos uploaded in a jumbled manner, but we'll go with it. 

It's cute when he wears the baby and works. ha! Cleaning off the deck. 

I also love it when my kids fall asleep on a book. 

Brothers and neighbors making progress on Edwin's piñata. Can you tell what it is yet?

Late night chats

The boys wanted to spend some of their money at the dollar tree. It's funny to see how excited (and rich) they feel when they go in there. And I like seeing what they think is worthy of their money. 

Miles ended up with some glitter glue which I thought was an excellent choice. 

Another day at church when Miles requested I take his photo. 

These are a bit jumbled but this year (2020-2021 school year) we homeschooled along with a charter school that our cousins had been attending for the last several years. Since everything was virtual this year it was fun to go see the campus with cousins/ 

Walter making friends with Uncle James

Eddie cousins. 

Seriously...my boys have the absolute best cousins!!

After visiting the school campus we went over to a lake or reservoir where the water was really low. It was a cool stump playground! Everett and Miles are only 6 months apart in age and I love seeing them together!

We also went to go see a dam. 

It was a rainy day. 

He's just always being cute!

Post gymnastics grocery shopping. 

We had a couple days when there were huge windstorms that knocked out the power. Our house got so cold and our friends kindly shared their kerosene heater...of course the power came back on a couple hours after they delivered it but we were grateful for a couple toasty hours after days of cold. 

Lots of game time all bundled up!

Charlie is a very reluctant writer. He had to make some sentences with his spelling words. This is what he came up with and it was a lot of progress. 

I learned a lot about nothing.

I leaned against my head.

Walking along stinking my song. 

I went across my face.

I went above the universe.

Don't take the toilet apart. 

Still keeping that baby extra warm while the power was out. 

Edwin got a tie dye kit for his birthday and we had a lot of fun doing making shirts as a family....Max was an over-achiever. 

It's kinda crazy how much they've faded since then. 

We had a day of snow. 

Walter and I mostly stayed snuggly and warm inside. 

Miles had a class last year called silly snacks. They would read a story and then make a little snack. He loved it so much!

My ultra talented, cookie artist friend surprised me on valentines day and brought these amazing Schitt's Creek themed valentine cookies. 

Our big boys were able to get some kid kayaks with some education funds. The sad thing is we still haven't used them. 

Except for the time we used them in our living room. 

4 year old check up and a flu shot earned him a popsicle. He was so pleasantly surprised that his popsicle had two sticks and it was basically like getting two popsicles. 

Check up for Walter too. I try to combine as many appointments as I can, otherwise we are always at the doctor. (Between checkups, sicknesses, glasses appointments, and ADHD followups...) 

Strong little booger

My babies, taking over my bed. 

The cutest little distraction. 

One of our chickens, Shimmer, has been shaky since we got her. The other chickens are jerks and attack her. Max found her almost dead, covered in mud in our chicken run. He brought her in, gave her a bath and a blow dry, and got her to eat. 

He then made her a new little home in the garage. She started eating again but then died a couple months later. She seemed to have some sort of a sickness from the beginning. But she sure was a sweet chicken. 

Baby cleavage is funny. 

More silly snacks class

Reading to his brothers. 

Walter got involved with school work a bunch. 

Studying different bodies of water. 

Miles made Walter a luxurious canopy bed. 

Finished some math and moved on to the next level. 

Disco party and daddy jungle gyms...thats really how we survive most winters. 

Some photos from our snow day, out of order but why fix it now?

And that was some fun stuff happening in February, stay tuned for Edwins birthday extravaganza and our separate mother/sons and father/sons trips. 

Walter 1 month

 

Walter turned 1-month on January 1st. 2021 Charlie helped me get Walter all situated and kept him happy for his photos. Around this time Walter started smiling. He was quite the delightful 1 month old. 

And that's our Walter baby!

New Years 2020/2021

 Well this is all sorts of confusing as I'm doing this a year late, and Apparently I didn't take any photos of our New Years celebration when we were ringing in 2021. But I do have some of our goals and accomplishments documented. 

Our usual celebrations include cheese fondue, games, chocolate covered strawberries and reminiscing about our favorite events of the year. 

Some Accomplishments from 2020 include

~Walter's plan, conception, and birth

~Switching to Homeschooling

~Max trip to Nashville

~New Van

~All boys got to try some gymnastics of some form

~Rebecca ran a 10k

~Got 25th completely rented out (no vacancies) 

~More date nights and a baby moon

~Max built a cool shelf for my milk pumping station

~Max helped plan his dad's memorial and helped his mom transition

~Beach overnighter

~Fort Stevens Camping trip

~Replaced our deck

Our Goals for 2021 included:(I feel like I should only inlcude the successful ones now that the year has completed, haha) But it definitely was a successful year. 

~More Gymnastics

~Buy, move in, and remodel grandma's house

~Help Uncle move into his own house

~Rent our old house

~Continue homeschooling

~Geology field trips

~One-on-one overnighters with each boy

~Max's nose surgery

~Continue to survive in a pandemic

And that is the gist of our new years plans and goals and now it is documented for our posterity. 

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