February 2011

I just realized that I posted all the pictures in this post in reverse order (again)... oops! Guess I need to start paying attention. Oh well. Read upside down if you like. :) This is what we were up to in February. :)

I know Tyler already posted about our computer keyboard incident, but I thought I'd post again. I feel pretty good about my efforts (sad to say). When I picked this up off the floor all the keys were gone. Wish I had a picture of that. Note to self: NEVER leave kids unattended for more than 30 seconds. No more solo showers, potty breaks or checking email for me.

Cole and Brookie LOVE fixing stuff with Tyler. They had a great time working on the vacuum! We're so glad we have such a handy dad!

New favorite game: hiding in the curtains. :)

Another new favorite passtime: hiding under the table and sharing contraband - jelly beans this time. Hey - at least they're sharing...

4 wheeling in our snow. We were all so happy to have some snow to play in!!

Nothink can stop these guys from playing outside. They can freeze their fingers and toes, be wet to the bone and still want to "play bikes." These pictures were taken around 7 am - still in our jammies, but enjoying some great white stuff!

We went with some friends in our play group to a farm in their ward in Albany. It was so fun to see Cole and Brookie and all the kids love seeing and feeding the animals!! Such a great experience! Here are the baby pigs they got to touch.

Clara and Coleman peeking at the piglets.

Brookie could bareley see over the wood, but she was thrilled to take a peek.

Still checking out those piggies!

Coleman got to gather an egg (can you call it that when it's just one) from the chicken coop. We fed the chickens some bread then took turns gathering the eggs.

Brookie wanted to sit on the horse, but when she got up there, she wasn't quite as thrilled - until she got down - then she was a grin from ear to ear, proud and happy. This girl loves animals. She's still talking about this trip and it's been almost a month!

Feeding some bread to the big pigs.

Checking in with the piglets again.

We fed the cows some bread too. They must have eaten 10 loaves!! Hungry hungry cows. The kids had a blast!!

Just happy to be at the farm. There really is something special about a farm.

Decorating cookies at a little Valentine's party. A few of the families in our ward came over for a little get together. We decorated cookies and made valentines and just played. It was great!

Brookie Sugar Evans was in heaven!

Bath boy!

Bath girl! - we love our baths around here!! Brookie sometimes asks to "have a baffy" 4 or 5 times a day... :)

We put together a little trip to the fire station here in Salem. The kids got to "drive" the fire truck and look at all their cool equipment. They dressed one of the fire fighters up and talked to the kids about not being affraid of people dressed like them. They answered all sorts of questions and gave them cool badge stickers. Cole and Brookie were thrilled. Such a fun outing!!

Checking out the fire truck.

The back of the truck and all the excited friends.

Brookie driving the fire truck.

Coleman driving the fire truck.

Brookie driving again. We had to have a baby with us the whole time. She's such a girlie girl!! :)

Checking it all out.

Brookie and her "brella" playing in the rain. Really, nothing stops these guys from wanting to be outside. :) I love having a yard!!

2 umbrellas, 2 happy kiddos and their "bikes"

We're also really into cooking lateley. Both Cole and Brookie love cracking eggs. They're pretty good at it too! We've been baking a lot. Have to get in a few more batches of cookie before summer. No AC is a bummer for using the oven. If anyone has any BBQ cookie recipes, please send them our way. :)

Brookie Homemaker and her baby and cooking.

Coleman is our fisherman. He loves to pretend to fish. Guess we'll have to take him fising for real sometime. I have such good memories of fishing as a kid (and as a big kid).

We finally took down the last of our Christmas decorations. We figured we had better take a picture of these creations before they were gone. Cole made this really neat graham cracker gingerbread house at Silver Falls before Christmas and he and Brookie made these cute pine cone Christmas trees later to go with it up on top of our TV. Wish we had room to save them, Cole was really sad when we had to take them down, but it was time to do a little cleaning up. We miss Christmas. :) Undecorating is the worst.