February

Besides Arya's birthday, we had a pretty quiet, but pretty darn awesome February.

I can't really make a February blog without putting in writing that we got to watch our team win the superbowl! :)

The kids helped me make some football shaped rice krispie treats the night before.  And after the picture at the table was taken we somehow added even more food.  Football season is the best season!

Then came Valentine's day.  Caleb's really good about...actually amazing about bringing me home flowers and little treats all the time, as you can probably tell by my pictures.  He gave me the sweetest surprise on Valentines day this year :) 

Since Caleb's worked midnight shift for the past 5 years, we sleep in different shifts for over half of the year.  I hate it.  I never sleep well when he's not home. I don't think I ever have, and if you know our family, you know we've spent a lot of years with work separating us.  But midnight shift really does work the best for our family, so we make do.  Now, I have a little squishy sleeping buddy for my nights alone all the way from Vermont.  It's even more special because we're pretty sure Vermont is where we're going to take our big 10 year anniversary trip!

Thanks for making my years so sweet, Caleb.  This has definitely been my favorite year of all for us.

I think that's about it for our short and sweet month.  We got some snow days, a birthday, some date days, and some movie days.
I'm so thankful!

Arya turns 6

Our little lady is 6.

She is in a league of her own!

She has the most feelings of any human I've ever met.  She cries at every Disney movie, sad or not, because she just has all the feels all the time.  She still loves her beauty sleep.  The days we give her the option of staying up late she usually let's us know she just needs to go to bed and heads there her normal time.  Her favorite things are still Barbies and coloring.  Casen and Arya are basically complete opposites.  She loves coloring and singing and imagination play while Casen loves math and science and logical playing.  She is the sweetest!  Caleb and I get multiple hugs and I love yous every single day.  She comes running off of the bus open arms, excited for anyone waiting for her.  We're so thankful for our little California girl.

She originally chose a Barbie themed party, but then we found unicorn decor and she changed her mind to that route.

She was pretty bummed she had to go to school on her birthday.  We did our best to make it special anyway.  She got donuts and chocolate milk for breakfast.  Then we let her open a couple presents early.  She got a new outfit and necklace to wear to school.  A new outfit will literally get her out of bed in the morning, so she was pretty excited.

Their elementary school let's parents go and eat lunch with their kids any day they choose.  Arya asked if we could come in for her birthday to eat with her.  She starts lunch at 10:30! So it was too early to bring her in any fast food goodies, but she got her request of homemade bacon mac n cheese.

We waited at the bus stop with some balloons

And we finished out the evening with a trip out to dinner, presents, and cake!

 

 

 We love you Miss Arya Morgan