February's Top Ten.....

10. The first weekend in February we went to the musical Lion King with my whole family (without kids). The singing was amazing, the costumes were the best I have ever seen, the babe slept the entire time, and we had fun company with us! The one bummer: we found at we had to pay for a lap child when we arrived. Yes...you heard that right; $24 for little Eli to sit in my arms and sleep the whole time. You gotta give them props for finding a way to squeeze a little more money out of people.

9. Going to the ASU Women's and Men's Gymnastics Meet with Maddie and Eli. We dropped Robby off at Nona and Papa's house and he had fun one-on-one time with his grandparents. We then met our good friends at In-N-Out Burger and ate dinner before heading over to Wells Fargo Arena. It was lots of fun and especially funny to watch Maddie doing her "nastics" in the aisle just like the girls on floor exercise. She is quite the wild child and I am afraid that most of the people around us were happy when we decided to make it a night.

8. This next one definitely isn't a top ten "good" thing to have happen, but is still noteworthy for the month of February. Robby mauled his little brother with one of his tow trucks after bath a few weeks back. I laid Eli down on the floor in the playroom long enough to run in the bathroom and hang up the bath towels. In that time period, Robby ran over to Eli and smacked him in the forehead/face with his truck. Poor Eli looked like we had beat him for nearly a week; I felt so bad that I called Jesse sobbing on the phone after it happened. Thank goodness his face healed quickly and he doesn't remember this incident. Needless to say, Robby went to bed EARLY that night (like 6pm) and I learned a valuable lesson: NEVER lay your baby down on the floor in the same room as his two year old brother.

7. I was able to go to Jamba Juice for some smoothies and gab time with my good friend/newlywed Carla. It was fun to sit and look at her gorgeous wedding pictures and talk about the good times together. It's always a fun night with that girl!

6. Oklahoma City vs. Phoenix Suns basketball game! We took our beloved Eli once again in tow and decked him out in full Suns attire. This time we watched them massacre Oklahoma City and witnessed LB's 41 point game: AWESOME (if you notice my double chin in the picture above, just reference down to number four on this list).

5. Taking Madison on a "mommy-daughter date" to the matinee showing of my younger brother's play performance of "Thoroughly Modern Millie." She sat so well during the play and was so interested in everything that was happening. On one part Millie picks a rose and starts singing. Madison announced that she was "so naughty for picking flowers...daddy would be so mad." *Hmmm...apparently Maddie does listen to what her dad says, she just hasn't quite mastered the part about obeying as well.

4. Being welcomed back to LA Fitness with brand new membership cards, after suffering a clothing meltdown on Valentines Day while trying to get dressed for our church's Sweetheart Ball.

3. One of my newest passions is making jewelry. I have inherited this love from my dear mother. I am officially blaming her for getting me hooked on this stuff. She is so crafty and has been doing beads for years, but just recently she has sucked me into this addicting new hobby. I went to a bead party this month and made an adorable new necklace for Maddie and one for my cutest ever niece for her birthday!

2. The reorganized park days in our neighborhood! My kids LOVE LOVE LOVE to be outside and so we have been so excited to once again have an official park day to meet up with friends and play. I now have Robby and Maddie both asking me every day if we are going to go "pay at pock pease" (in Robby's words).

1. We have been taken over by trains and cars at our household. This isn't an official "thing" that happened but is instead a daily occurence at our house. Robby has so many cars, trucks, and trains after hitting the jackpot on his birthday; that it feels like no matter where you look in our house, you will find one. I would try harder at keeping them in the box where they belong, but the thing is he is constantly playing with them. His beloved green train accompanies him at mealtime and occasionally is fed his own serving of food, they follow him over to the couch to watch movies, he always has a few outside in case he gets bored playing in the dirt. He even has to have several in his crib when he naps and goes to bed. Hooray for having a little boy!