Surprises are the BEST!

As I was headed to wake up the kids for school on Valentine's Day, the phone rang.  My heart sank.  Who was calling at 6:30am?  Initial panic!  When I saw it was the school district...premature excitement?  It had snowed the day before but there was no way the roads were too bad for school.  Right??!!  Right, the roads were not bad.  However, the town of Perry (including the schools) had lost electricity about 3am.  No power = No school.  Lucky us!  We did celebrate!!!

 We called up cousin Paige to see if she wanted to spend the "sNOw day" with us.  Once she arrived, I sent the kids on a Valentine's Day scavenger hunt.  SO FUN!

 Clues were everywhere!  :-)

 What's that?  A surprise behind the couch???

We had planned on doing the surprise scavenger hunt on Tuesday...after school and before gymnastics.  This gave us so much more time!

Cheers to a great Valentine's Day at home!



Happy Love Day!

Happy Valentine's Day 2012

SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We finally got some snow & boy did we have fun playing in it!

Valentine Time...

The kids had so much fun with Valentine cards this year.

Remi chose Princesses (shocking, right?) and proudly wrote her name on all of them!

Talin wanted Cars Valentines with pencils...no candy!



Jaedin is our creative one and looked on my Pinterest account for ideas.  She loved the sucker photo cards!  (Me too!)

Princess Dancers 2012

Both Jaedin & Remingtin were able to participate in the PLHS Varsity Blues dance clinic this year.  Jaedin was in the 2nd/3rd grade group and Remi was in the PreK-1st grade group.  The theme was "princesses" and each group performed to a Disney song.  Adorable!!!

Remi & her teacher Kristine.

Sweet dancers.

PreK-1st group

Dancing to Little Mermaid

Jaedin with her buddies

2nd/3rd grade group

Dancing to Beauty & the Beast

So cute!

The adorable princess dancers!

My sweeties...

I caught the kids having a little moment on the stairs this morning.  Of course, I snuck away to grab my camera.  LOVE them to pieces!

This. Is. Tired.

No clue how she can sleep like this...

Basketball Fun!

Thank you to the PLHS Girls Basketball team for passing out mini-basketballs and cheering us on!

Basketball Friends!

Future Politician...

Put the iPad in Talin's hands and he finds Senator Pat Roberts and listens intently to every single word.  He loves my "Social Studies" app folder!

WU Softball Camp

Jaedin attended the Washburn University 2-day softball camp &  loved it!  She was the youngest player there out of about 70 girls.  She learned a ton and worked so hard.  The best part...she was awarded the "Most Coachable" award!  They only handed out four awards and she got one of them!  Needless to say, DAD is over the moon!!!

GIRLS!!!

Dad had a poker fundraiser, Talin had a sleepover at nana's...so Jaedin invited a couple of friends over and we had a GIRLS NIGHT! 

Love this...I use to do the same thing with my friends at sleepovers.  

Celebrating Kansas

It's Cowboy / Cowgirl Day at school!

Celebrating KS in 2nd Grade!

Our Jr Kaws...

#23 & #10

Cousins

Thanks for coming to watch us, Great-Grandma & Grandma Cindy!

Jaedin in action (center of photo)

After game celebration...these girls are 2-0!

Talin with his "hands up"...the entire game!

I got my eyes on you too, buddy!