Piper and Daddy date also Mommy and Christian date

Piper had a calendar from our old church in Texas and noticed that the Daddy/ Daughter dance was in February.  It was always one of her favorite nights of the year so she requested that her and Daddy go on a date!  They went out to Pei Wei, bookstore, and got cheesecake to bring it home.  They had a great time!

While they were out Mommy and Christian had a date at home.  We had chicken on the bone from KFC, watched I love Lucy (which Christian thinks is funny), made chocolate chip cookies, and just relaxed in one of our favorite places home!

 They thought buddy might like it since we were having an I Love Lucy marathon

Fun Tea Party

We have met some friends that have kids around the same ages as our kids and have started to trade off days so we can go on dates without having a pay a babysitter.  The girls decided to do an American Girl tea party so they got dressed up in Piper's dresses and dressed their American girl dolls and set up a little tea party in the dining room.  The boys were banished to the kitchen!

Crazy Hair Day at church

Our church, New Life Christian Church, has had theme Sundays in the KidsZone and they have been so much fun.  One week was crazy hair day and this is what we looked like!  Piper did all her bows in her hair and Christian we just spray painted.  Christian won the prize for the week!

 

This is as crazy as I got!

My first real home improvement project

I have not loved the builder grade cabinets in our bathrooms upstairs so I decided to paint them.  Brian was a little hesitant as always, but I was willing to do it all by myself.  So I started with the kids bathroom just to see how it would look.  I got a kit called Rustoleum cabinet restoration in espresso and it was great.  It has everything you need to prepare the cabinets and to paint them except brushes and I had those.  So we started off and it only took a few day and the results we amazing.  I forgot to take a picture with the cabinet doors on so you will have to imagine.  I smile everytime I go by their bathroom.  Brian has now agreed that I can do our bathroom!  I can't wait for those pictures!

Before

 After

Valentine's Day at school

I found out 2 days before Valentine's day that the kids were going to have parties at school and needed to bring Valentine's without candy.  To me Valentine's day is all about the candy so it was hard for me to think of what to do and my question is how did we live before the internet and Pintrest!  So I got these free printables for Star Wars ones and printed and punched holes and gave glow sticks.  Piper wanted to give crazy straw so I made a template that said, "Have a Strawesome Valentine's day!"  They turned out great!  Christian's party was a little crazy so no pictures and Piper's class just handed them out.  I was a little proud of myself!

Valentine's Day at home

This year I tried to make Valentine's day special.  The kids got up and we had heart shaped pancakes and bacon, which never happens on a school day.  They got a heart shaped brownie in their lunch and special note from daddy.  Then dinner was on the fancy plates and glasses and Piper even made place cards for everyone.  We had a fun strawberry and sprite drink, with french bread pizza, and strawberries.  I made chocolate cheesecake after a request from my Valentine and my daughter and homemade brownies for my son.  The kids want to have the drink all the time now!  It tastes like a Sonic Strawberry Limeade-we miss Sonic!

Christian's Pinewood derby

Christian joined boy scouts this year and has gotten to do a lot of fun activities.  He got to do a pinewood derby this year and it is amazing how into it some of these dads get.  One of the dads did a lot of research on how to make your car go really fast and win so the troop spent weeks leading up getting their cars ready.  So Christian's car got 2 in his age group-the dad with all the research was on the one that beat him and he go 7th over all, which is kids from 1st grade to 5th grade.

 We were up at 6:30 to get to his first basketball game so he was a little tired!