I love finding new hairstyles and playing with the girls’ hair!  They both loved this fun heart braid!  Donuts are so very horrible for us, we know this.  So a rule we’ve been holding to the past couple of years, is only on the morning of each girls’ birthdays (and special vacations) do we get donuts.  It helps us look forward to our favorite treat without being too unhealthy!  So, here was Rose’s birthday breakfast!  

 

Lots more beautiful sugary treats.  Good grief, birthdays and sugar sure do go hand-in-hand in our culture these days.  I recently read, the more sugar you eat, the more you crave it and the less sugar you eat, the less you crave it.  Silly that I’m talking against it as I’m showing you how pretty the culprit is!  Oh well, we try every day to have an overall healthy diet.   

 

This day of errands sure was interesting.  We saw a google maps car at Target and a parrot at Hobby Lobby! 

 

Kinder Kate!

 

My friend took me to the World Trade Center for the first time this month.  It was super fun!  There was a store named Simply Noelle.  I had to take a picture for her to see!

 

Flashback to Jaalisa’s amazing tea party!  Next pic: I love working in our flower beds outside.  It just feels good to get my hands in the soil.  Enjoyed planting a few pansies and cabbage this year.  It was a last minute decision.  We’ve enjoyed them so much that next year I will plant them earlier in the season.  They are still going strong today!

  

 

Lots of Valentine’s cards floating around our house this year!  I have a feeling the one from Nathan on the left, will be one of many as the girls get older! 

 

 

More dance morning memories with our friendsies!

 

Can she get any sweater? 

 

I’ve really enjoyed setting up an Instagram shop this school year, selling new and preloved girls’ clothes.  I’ve also had fun meeting new friends from all around the world on my personal account.  Here are 3 cuties from Australia sporting my custom made gold glitter initial tees I carried this winter in the shop.  We’ve been sending care packages back and forth too.  It’s been such a blast hanging out with this family on IG and working in my little store too!

 

Miss February sure is something else!  Rose and I have totally bonded this year with lots of quality one-on-one time.  She is my little side-kick, and we are connected at the hip!  I don’t know what we would do without this little stinker, who fills our lives with immeasurable joy!

 

 

More food art by Noelle.  Anna Kate requested oatmeal, and since Noelle was in the kitchen, she got it a little fancier than usual.  I had fun crafting for Rose’s birthday, but can barely remember those crafts, as new ones have filled our house as I’ve been getting ready for Anna Kate’s Jelly Bean Birthday Bash!

 

More adorable dance days, and Noelle helping with the laundry with a cheerful heart!

 

Who do you think made this?  Another Saturday breakfast made with love by our eldest.  When Monday rolled around, the best I could do was pancakes with sugar-free chocolate chips!  All I remember from this week was being exhausted.  I’m so thankful we have a February birthday and Valentine’s to look forward to, because every year, right about this time, winter really presses down on all of us, and we are just so cold and over it.  Currently, it’s mid-March, there are little buds on all of the trees, and a fresh start is in the air!  Couldn’t be more ready or thankful!

This is a little flashback gem I finally got printed on a canvas for our loft upstairs.  It makes me so happy to see it every day and remember what an incredible time it was in our lives when our last little love entered our family.  They are already so much bigger than they were in this picture, and this wasn’t that long ago.  We are entering the years we like to call the golden years where we have no toddlers or teenagers in the house.  It’s just simply fun, and we are so happy and goofy all the time.  The physical labor isn’t as much, so we get to enjoy everything more because we aren’t exhausted (as much).  I just want to freeze time every single day.  I truly believe my life has never felt better or more at peace over all, and I just want to be present and take it all in.  Hope you guys had a fun February and enjoyed a peak into ours!  Now here we go marching through March… treasuring each and every day!