February 2017 little things

…and with the beginning of real dog life around here.

(More about Bo Jangles HERE.)

Meanwhile over on Oahu this girl of ours fell into a few modeling jobs.

…right as Lu was working her heart out at her own “super hero run” back here in the desert.

Grace wrapped up her cheer career (HERE):

Right before she and I headed up to Youth Conference (back HERE).

Grace drives us around with her permit…which means one of us parents sits in the back sometimes.  Love this pic. of Dave back there with his girls.

…and I still think it’s so WEIRD that we can all fit in a sedan these days.

My brother and his wife and baby surprised Elle in Hawaii since they were there for something or another…

(my brother told her he needed her to help befriend his friend “Daryl” who was coming and told her where to meet him only to find these two…oh I love my family)

We had a little family Superbowl party and it is one of my favorite memories from February (over HERE).

…and that dog accompanied us EVERYWHERE so that we could keep a constant eye on her!

We stole the girls away one night to see “Hidden Figures” (back HERE), and it was so good.

Meanwhile more hair extension shoots over in Hawaii…

We had a few girls join us in Mia Maids (the 14-15 year olds in Young Women at church), and this is what we do on their birthdays:

We were in charge one of the weeks so we did a whole bunch of games including 3-Deep (that I explained in a new years post back HERE).

My friend’s daughter surprised her family with a mission call.  Only the dad knew she was planning on going, and I was in charge of distracting the mom while they got things situated.  Look at that joy in my friend’s face:

It was such a great night.

More work packing and driving to help out at BrainFood.

Love that place.

Valentine’s prep:

(Lucy made up that guy all by herself.)

…and we made these for our missionaries (cousins and Max’s companion too), and Elle, along with a few other Valentine’s things in packages I smooshed full as could be…

…and I closed down the post office once again trying to get them sent off.

We had the best 4th-Grade hike with angel helpers for Lucy.

I won’t ever forget that one.  More about that back HERE.

We rolled up all our rugs at the advice from our dog trainer, and it was empty in here for a good long time (we just barely put them back for Conference last week).

Grace was sick, and it’s good to have good friends to come bring you smoothies when you’re sick:)

Lucy has some cute friends who come over every so often to jump on the trampoline.  Love these cute boys:

Spring hiking was in full-swing in February…still is…I love hiking in the desert!

This one was with some friends and my girl Claire.

More stuff I stole from Elle:

Meanwhile Claire was “modeling” for a blanket company one of my girls at church is starting:

Love those cute girls!

These girls helped me get busy busting out sugar cookies for Valentine’s Day:

Because that is a must around here for the big V-Day.

We delivered them to the people I visit teach…and a few others…and I loved that Lucy was so excited to hold this cute baby at one of the houses.

She is not usually a baby kind of a girl.

This is old but Elle got on the Billabong Instagram making all kinds of friends with the professional surfers during surf season over there.

Elle’s singing friend has a new single.

She is so so good.

Our boy got more dots on his chart 🙂

Meanwhile we had Valentine’s Day here…and missed that great Valentine of ours.

(Valentine’s Day back HERE.)

Lucy gets closer and closer to see her piano music but is doing tremendously well with piano.

Lots of joy coming home from school to this furry friend:

Young women here for some yoga:

(It was the very beginnings of the church being in Romania.)

We had a joyous reunion with Dave when he got back from China.

He brought some good knock-offs too which added to the excitement.

Bo had her training.

And although Dave claims he can’t stand her, sometimes we have moments like this:

Our friend who designed our wall came to town.

I had to get a picture of him in front of that thing.

It was a ton of work and we appreciate him so so much.  Love that thing.

More about the WALL back HERE.  (I had a few people ask me for Brian’s contact info., and although I don’t think he’ll do this much, I’ll add it back on that post.)

Our glasses girls:

Claire decided on about three new business ventures she and a friend were going to start in February.  This one is stuffed desert things…

Lu and I snuck away to see Moana since she was a little worried I hadn’t seen it yet.  We had a little crazy story getting into the movie theater, which is a story in and of itself, but that was a good movie and totally worth the fiasco/adventure to get there!

Claire had some good cousin time…and one of those cousins is pretty awesome at hair-dos so Grace decided she should do a photoshoot of them.

That cute hair-expert-cousin did the photographer’s hair as well:

…and they were all pretty excited about it.

…except the fact that I made them walk home from this bird preserve…

Speaking of walks, In February we started taking Bo on more of them.  We walked Lucy to school a couple times but she was so tired I carried her a bunch of the way home.  My neighbor saw me and snapped a picture because she figured “carrying” a dog for a walk was pretty funny 🙂

Caught up with these lovely ladies…

And this awesome brother who had a quick lay-over here in the desert for a few hours:

We had New Beginnings at church, and although I couldn’t round up all the new girls at the same time, I had to snap a pic of the ones I could catch…they looked so beautiful with their flower crowns on.

I was in charge of the programs and had the BEST helper through Etsy (my friend in charge was using her for the big stuff).  Check her out over HERE, she does some beautiful stuff!

My high school friends came to town and we had the best mini reunion.

Lots more about that over HERE.

Meanwhile Dave got to do this:

Yeah, he was pretty excited about that!

Maureen (one of my best high school friends) stayed a couple days after our little reunion and we loved soaking her up.

We had her teach us a little lesson on looking up family ancestry while she was here…she is pretty darn good at that.

Elle headed to Maui to visit my brother between trimesters over there (they ended the end of Feb. and began beginning of March)

We shared Bo with cousins.

Scripture study.  HA!

I think we need to move back to the counter…

Bo Love to finish out LOVE MONTH.