Valentines Day!

 Bryant's teacher actually held a 100 days of school/Valentines day party!  This is our first party of the year!  No Harvest party near Halloween, and when there wasn't going to be a Winter party near Christmas I asked her if she was just not into parties, the answer was yes.  I think the kids had so much fun!  She had different stations set up around the room.  Above Bryant is glueing his cheerios to a piece of paper that had a big 100 on it to celebrate the 100th day of school!  There was also an eating table, one for decorating your Valentine holder and coloring a pennant.  Below he is checking out his loot! 

 I decided to make my first cheesecake for my family.  It turned out great!  It chilled overnight and the morning of Valentines day I opened the fridge and noticed a block of cream cheese sitting there.  Ugh!  It was supposed to have all three blocks and I had only used two in the recipe!  It was Lime Coconut Cheesecake and it was a tad bit limey but so good!  As a friend said, it is less fattening this way!   Ha ha!

A Little Help From His Sister

 I forgot to post these photos from right before Bry lost his two front teeth!  Here he is checking them out in the dirty mirror!

 Bravely letting his big sister have a go at it!

 And that is all folks!  He was having no more of this tooth pulling, by anyone!

Two Front Teeth in Two days!

 How cute is he?  This past Saturday he lost one of his front teeth while crawling up the stairs and slipped bumping his mouth on the step.  He said, "Ugh!  My tooth fell out!"  It was hanging on by the teeniest thread, it didn't bleed at all.  The Tooth Fairy came that night.  Now about the second front tooth...  He has always wanted to lose a tooth at school because you get sent to the office where they give you a plastic tooth that is actually a tooth holder!  He has lost his other teeth at home or at church, yes Sydney was showing him how to pull his tooth out and she actually did it on accident!  So I get a text from a friend who just happened to be in the office at school that day that he had just lost his tooth!  He was so excited!  And he decided not to give the tooth to the Tooth Fairy, he still has it in the tooth holder!  Now his permanent teeth are already coming in and he won't look like my little baby anymore!  He is growing up so fast!

Snow week off of school

It started snowing a bit on Sunday then we had Monday off for Martin Luther King day, 90 minute late start for school on Tuesday and the snow came down harder, then ice and more snow!  No school for the rest of the week!  We had friends over to play and Taylor made a "lazer" obstacle course in the only hallway in our house with two walls!  A little bit of yarn and tape makes a whole lot of fun!  Here they are trying to get through it!  So fun!

The trampoline was sinking and that tree branch was hanging really low over the fence from the neighbor's tree.  Taylor tried to shovel the snow off, but it was so heavy from the snow and freezing rain!

 Sydney found this frozen leaf, so cool!  It was stiff!

 More fun with friends outside and inside after they were soaked!  It started raining today, Friday, and the snow is melting.  There are power outages all over from the ice and snow covered trees breaking power lines, so far we have just had a few flickers!

 I am so happy my twelve year old and her friend's still play petshops!  Stay young Syd!

OWLS

Nana came to town and brought some fabric and an owl pattern! 

 This and this...

 and  Nana...

 make these little cuties!

 Then Sydney made all of these ity bity baby owls, so adorable!

Hazen JV

 Taylor #22

 One bored little brother at his sister's basketball game with a camera in his hands!

 Going...

 Going... and it counts!

Christmas 2011

 A really cool tool box for Tay!

 Christmas tradition of decorating sugar cookies for every holiday!  Can you say too much sugar?!

 Grandpa Wayne wanted to eat at Ivars on the pier, so we did!

 I just love going to see all the lights at the Bellevue Botanical Garden's Garden D' Lights, so festive!

 A Zune for Sydney

Bryant kept asking where his Nerf guns were, that is what he wanted to receive for Christmas this year.  He ended up with three guns and tons of extra bullets!  I think this photo sums up his Christmas!  I love this age!