Sacramento

We started our big road trip on Feb.18th. We drove to Eugene, OR and stayed the night there. In the morning we got up and headed to Sacramento to stay with Tyler's family until Sunday. We had so much fun with them!

Watching tv in the hotel.

Jackson kicked Jordan accidentally in the hand before our trip and Jordan's fingers were swollen.

Playing darts in the garage.

We played lots of ping pong.

Avery and Jackson playing, with Lila and Rose watching.

We went to the park Saturday morning. We played soccer and bocce ball.

Kenzie with a kumquat from their yard. Lila told her that she's supposed to eat the peel, so she tried it. She didn't love it, but she tried it.

Grace was great at keeping the ball in the air. Lila was too, but I don't have picture of it.

Avery and Jordan, with Coleman watching.

Gracie and Kenzie

Coleman and Jackson

Tyler, Gracie, and Kenzie built a tall lego tower. Tyler had one already built, but they added a ton on to it.

It got taller than Tyler!

They played some minute to win it, while Doug, Tyler, and I played Puerto Rico.

The kids watched a movie before bed.

Tyler and Rose got some donuts Sunday morning. Tyler said he'd get some Saturday morning, and then said we'd just get some on the way to the park we went to that morning, but Doug said we should just get some after the park since everyone just ate breakfast, but then it was lunch time after so we just went home and at lunch. Kenzie thought she'd never get a donut. She hadn't eaten much breakfast because she was saving room for a donut so she was hungry the whole time we were at the park and was sad to not get a donut, but she was vey happy when she got this one Sunday morning :) Tyler and and Rose got a sprinkled one just for her.

Grace, Lila, Avery, Kenzie, Jackson, Coleman, Jordan

The kids in front of a tree in the yard.

Valentine's Day

We had a fun Valentine's Day. We got the kids (and Doug) some candy. Doug gave me a shirt, but it was delayed a couple days because of the snow. Kenzie and Coleman made some valentines for us too. We played in the snow, played games, ate a yummy dinner, and watched Tangled.

Kenzie made us some placemats and cut out hearts to decorate the table. I made alfredo instead of our usual Sunday dinner of potato soup so Jackson would be happy. We also lit some candles and turned the lights low. We don't usually have such a festive dinner, but it was fun to do and we'll probably do it again next year (as long as we remember :))

We colored the alfredo pink. Coleman didn't like it as much :)

Me and my valentine :)

Kenzie's valentine for me.

She also made me this rock (she made one for Doug and her brothers too).

My valentine from Coleman.

Snow!!!

We got a bunch of snow on Feb 13-14th. It was a lot more than we expected and we had a lot of fun playing in it!

Kenzie was in the snow as soon as she could on Saturday. She went by the pond and was throwing snow at it.

So much snow!

Kenzie and Jordan

The snow was so powdery that they couldn't make a big snowman easily. Kenzie made this little guy.

Sleeping in their snow beds.

Jordan was so excited to use his snowball maker. It worked really well. 

Doug snuck up on Kenzie and tackled her.

Doug played football with the kids.

The snow was so powdery that it got into the shed even with the doors closed. That's never happened before.

Kenzie made another snowbed.

They were playing tackle football.

The powdery snow also got in between the screen and glass. It also got into the crawl spaces so Doug went in there and cleaned it up.

It was also pretty windy when it was snowing so there were places that were really deep and some that had barely any snow. This is next to our neighbors house. There was a really deep pile at the bottom of the steps next to the fence. We did notice after the snow melted that there was a bucket there that helped to make it taller.

Doug and Kenzie making snow angels.

It was so deep in some places!

Doug and the kids went sledding and snowboarding down the road. A few neighbors came out, but we were surprised at how few neighbors played in the snow. Most of the yards didn't even have footprints in them.

Jackson

Jordan

Jackson

Jordan

Coleman stopping for a snack.

Doug shoveling the snow.

Kenzie made a tiny snowman.

More tackle football.

They were able to make a snowman with Doug's help and by using a shovel.

Jordan

Kenzie and I went on a walk around the neighborhood and found another hill to sled on. 

She went lot of times trying to go over a little jump we made at the bottom of the hill. I ended up needing to push her, but she finally did it.

Jordan was with us for a little bit.

She found a long icicle.