February Wrap Up

Painting

  Corks & Colors

I love working at Corks and Colors.  My boss is awesome, my co workers (although I rarely see them) are great and I get to paint and get paid for it all.  The other paintings below were parts of the wall mural I helped paint with Ashley Bolin for the boys room.  It was also tons of fun :)

The kids came to work with me one day.  They painted ceramic dolphins, Bella's is purple and Landon's is half blue and half red.  

 Lego Class

 Lego class is going so well.  3 of these pictures were taken on our "house" week.  The kids were asked to build a house after reading  The Best Place by Susan Meddaugh.  I loved all the house.  Some of the kids choose to work in groups.  I am impressed every week how well the kids work together.

Valentine's Day

The kids woke up to a heart shaped bagel with pink cream cheese.  We watched Charlie Brown's Valentine's day movie, we had lots of heart shape lunch items (yay for cookie cutters), we made Daddy a special Valentine's day picture, and had a a few heart shape things at dinner.  I didn't take pictures of all our Valentine Day events.  We had fun and always enjoy any extra excuse to love on each other.

Josh surprised me a few days before Valentine's day with a surprise date on the town.  We ate at Harry's and walked around downtown together.  Josh also got my tennis bracelet, he bought as my 21st birthday gift fixed.  About 5 years ago I broke it.  Due to the coming of a certain little boy, I forgot about getting it fixed and there always seemed like there was something better to spend money on.  I was so happy because I love my diamond tennis bracelet.

Happy Valentine's Day

 Arabella and her sweet girlie-ness

Arabella and her favorite doll, Dora getting a mani and pedi.

Arabella and her baby

Everyday Life at the Williams'

Lots of dress up and Legos, as always, filled out February.  Snuggles, naps, some walks, and silly antics were also a big part of our February.

January Happenings

Travels
I felt like all we did was travel in January.  We were in Missouri for almost a week in the beginning. We went to the panhandle for 4 days, a week and a half after getting back from Missouri. We went to Jacksonville. So yes..we traveled...a lot!

We went to the panhandle to celebrate some birthdays.  My mom's birthday was on the 17th and Sally's was on the 21st.

A day of ice cream, park and boardwalk

Mall day- food and carousal 

Hanging around the house- suitcase fun, Legos, brushing teeth, and playing with Uncle Jon

Sally's Birthday celebration

Sweet Siblings

"I wear my sunglasses at night"

Lego Class

Last semester Landon had such a blast at his Lego class, and they weren't offering it in the spring semester I thought I would teach one myself.  We have class Friday mornings for an hour.  I read a story on the topic of the week, show the kids some ideas of Lego creations on that topic, the kids build and then we meet back in a circle to share about the creations they made.  I love it! Landon loves it! I hear every week how the moms and kids love it.  It is so much fun!  I already am planning on teaching another Lego class in the fall and maybe even this summer ;)

First Lego class of the semseter

Cooking
For some school work, I decide Landon and Arabella should make dinner from start to finish. We made from scratch homemade pizza.  We made the crust, sauce and picked our own toppings. It was yummy and we all had fun! Now that is my kind of learning!

Homemade Pizza

Dress up fun!

"Oh I know I am adorable!"

Our Beautiful Lady 

I love the hands in the pockets ;)

It's underwear kids!

In case you were wondering, that bottom middle picture of Landon is him wearing almost every single pair of undies he owns- boxers and briefs!

A few extras I just couldn't leave out :)

Lions, Tigers, and Bears... Oh My!! Jacksonville Zoo with the Bolins

Ashley asked me if I was interested in going to the Jax zoo.  I have been wanting to take the kids to the zoo for such a long time.  At almost $20 just for Landon to go, I had been putting it off.  Apparently in January on Tuesdays this year they had $2 entry fees for everyone 3 and up.  I didn't even hesitate, YES! So we packed up the van, got the Bolins and then headed to Jacksonville.  We had packed a lunch.  We stopped at a gas station about a half hour away out had bathroom breaks and ate lunch.  

It was a great Florida "winter" if you can even fairly called it a winter.  We had so much fun.  The kids were totally worn out by the end of it.  All 5 kids, walked almost the whole time.  We had a double stroller and wagon.  Landon loved the reptile house.  Arabella gets pretty scared of of a very realistic snake that Landon has, so I was pretty surprised at how interested she was in the snakes.

Because we got such a deal on entrance, we bought tickets to go on the train which was also $2 for everyone over 3.  The train was a big hit! 

Reptile house and train ride

My favorite exhibit was the Bonobo apes.  The family had a little 2 year old baby.  It was adorable!  The baby kept bugging mom, dad, and even sometimes big sister to take him down off the wood tower.  It is so amazing to see animals caring for each other, similarly to us.  I love that God has made so many amazing things in their world for us to enjoy, care for and share pleasures such as parenthood.

Florida exhibit and Bonobo apes

Landon giving the big snake some "love."

I love the looks that boys boys have in this picture.  It cracks me up!

The pengiun exhibit was cool.  All the little penguins hanging out on the rocks and then a group would all jump in one right after another race to the other side of the pool and then join the group again.  It was funny and adorable.  But the BEST part was the had this little cave that kids could climb into and one wall was glass...so you could see the the penguins swim by.  Oh my, the giggles and squeals!! The kids sat there for probably 10 minutes!

Penguins were the biggest hit for my little loves.  

Needless to say, we throughly enjoyed ourselves and so did my pocket book ;)

This was brought to you by the letter A

We were learning about the letter A the last 2 weeks.  He is some pictures of Landon and Zach's work

Landon's work on the letter A

Landon's acorn person

 

 

 

I love that Zach wanted his apple tree to have "Apples falling from it, so they are easy to eat."

Zack and Landon with their Letter A page and their finger print Apple tree.