January and February

Little boy isn't always an angel. We were two minutes from heading out the door and here he comes, covered in Nutella. I guess he was hungry or just wanted to give me more gray hair, but either one, he looks adorable in a chocolate beard! 

Miss Cait got straight A's (shocker I know) so she got to have a special date with mom. We went to The Melting Pot and the movie, Into the Woods. It was super fun. We were both wearing new shoes that were killing our feet. It was a relief to sit down and take them off.

Happy day before Valentine's Day! Of course the kids all had their parties the day before Vday. I stenciled all their tshirts and made Caits skirt. They looked adorable! 

Happy Valentines  Day to me! I am really starting to feel guilty about Vday being focused on me. Dave really knows how to pull at my heart strings. He sent me on a scavenger hunt through our favorite spots. Each spot had a treat and the last spot was at Hayes Nature Preserve where he was sitting by the river with roses and playing our song. I cried and it was so sweet. I then got a spa day at home. A hot bath and a massage from the kids. I loved every second! 

One of my favorite parts was hanging out with Dawson. He was my agent. He went with me on my hunt to make sure I found all of my treats. He took it to the agent level and talking to me only in short sentences and called me ma'am the whole time. It makes me smile just thinking about it. 😄

On Vday is also when Huntsville had their Mardi Gras parade. It was fun but much shorter than last years so I was a bit bummed. 😔

And then Porky Pig turned two!! I wanted to do something fun with him on Thursday and since I was watching little buddy Parks I decided to take them to Build-A-Bear. It was a blast! I had so much fun chasing them around. We were the only ones in the store so we had free reign. Parks picked out the dog first and it's the only one Porky didn't throw back. I had to get the pups a Tshirt  so we could tell them apart. 

I tried hard to get a decent birthday picture of the boy, but this is what I got. The shirt fits the situation perfectly. 

And then it snowed! We had the craziest week of weather. With ice and low temps and then finally snow, all but Wednesday school was late start or early release! It was nutty! The kids were ecstatic about the snow. Cait was sure she was going to go a whole year without touching snow. But then there was Porky. He didn't care a lick about it and turned around and went back in the house. 

Christmas

Before Santa

Getting ready to see all Santa brought

After Santa

All three big kids got roller skates. Best toy of the day.

This is Porky's favorite toy! Anything Cars was all he needed.

December Happenings minus Christmas!

Porky and I got to travel to Utah in December. My sister and her hubby were able to get sealed in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. The session and the ceremony were so lovely and it was so amazing to be in the temple with my family. 

Porky was so good on the airplanes! We had to overnight in North Carolina because of a plane delay. Neither of us slept well at all and we were so tired by the time we got to Utah. Poor little guy was thrown off any schedule we pretend to have. Only sleeping 10 hours out of 24. By the time we got home he slept for two days straight and was a nightmare when he wasn't sleeping. Oh the woe's of toddlerhood. 

Little Man also got to play with snow. There wasn't a lot but he hasn't seen snow for a year so it was a new thing for him. At first he didn't love it, but then he didn't want to stop.

We also got to hang out with the Young family. We had treats at Aunt Alison's house and we were all to wear our Ugly Christmas Sweaters. Aunt Kriss won for the best get-up. For the first hour I couldn't look at her without laughing so hard. We couldn't even take this picture without laughing. It was awesome!

Porky loved his girl cousins. They gave him candy. Anything to win him over!

Of course the best thing about Grandma Young's house is the stairs. He scared me to death, but had fun so who am I to get in his way?

We were so lucky to have a whole row to our selves on the way home. This picture was before we moved. He was so happy to be in his own seat and so were my legs. 

One thing I love about Alabama is the weather. I can't remember what day this was but it was in December and they were sleeping outside. The low temperature for the night was only 46. They all stayed nice and toasty.

 Welcome 2015! We had a kicking party. We played some time related Minute to Win It games. Everyone but the babe and Cora made it to midnight. And then we made a mess.

Second trip to the beach

This really should have been before Halloween but I was gettin a head of myself on the pictures. We loved the beach so much the first time we had to go back. We have fall break out here so we spent four and a half days in sunny Florida in October. Loved it!

Halloween

Random

First Day of school.