February was Fabulous!

Playing frisbee golf in Oklahoma City

Climbing in the tree and taking a picture was completely the kids idea. Honest.

All grown up and using the big swing.Katelyn enjoyed watching all the kids playing at the park.Mikayla made a love monster at her school Valentines Party.During Austin's valentine's day party, they played a game to see who could first find the piece of bubble gum hiding in the whipped cream. Austin raced against his teacher.

Twinkies!!

Austin's school/neighborhood friends recently introduced him to Pokémon cards and were kind enough to give him some of theirs. My two brothers used to collect the same cards when they were younger which were then given to my nephew Tyler when he became interested in them. And since  Tyler wasn't really interested in them anymore he kindly sent a package of the cards in the mail. Austin waited anxiously for them to arrive and when they did it was like he had won the jackpot!! His friends came over and they excitedly went through all the cards and I heard phrases like "no way! look at this one!" They were busy examining the cards for a good hour and Austin even gave his friends a stack of cards to take home since they were so kind to him.Just because I'm cute!

The night before Kristi's wedding we stayed at a nearby hotel and spent some time playing games. 

 Count on Craig to take the initiative to invite Chris' siblings to play games also. He is always so good to make sure everyone is included. That's one of the things I love about him! 

And while the adults were playing games the kids were outside in the courtyard of the hotel playing games of their own. Somehow in February we landed beautiful 70 degree weather and the courtyard area was completely fenced in and the pool gated off so it was perfect!! The kids played hide and seek and sardines for hours.

 Cute cousins waiting outside of the temple

Barn Hill Preserve came to the school and Mikayla's class got to see several different types of animals. Mikayla chose to hold and take a picture with Joey the kangaroo.

At a special Stake Conference held at the Community Center. Elder Todd D Christofferson was visiting and spoke to us. One of the things I specifically remember was duing his talk he mentioned how he could see lots of young families out in the audience with little kids. He said he knows how hard it to juggle life and things like daily scripture study etc but to just keep trying!  Keep trying!! I gravitated to those words because that is exactly what I feel like I am doing right now. There are so many balls to juggle and some of them get dropped--and sometimes it's even the important ones that get dropped. But that doesn't mean I should give up. Just keep trying!

Then he invited all the children in the audience to come up after the closing prayer so he could shake their hands. So Austin took the opportunity and did so. I told Austin afterwards that was something very special because it doesn't happen very often that you get the chance to shake hands with an apostle of the Lord.