Catch the Moment 365 | {February 21- February 27}

Day 53 | Feb 21

In the morning I gave my little girl a bath, and I think she is just the cutest thing! Then in the evening my son advanced to an orange belt in karate. I missed the belt test because I had to work, but luckily my husband took pictures for me!

Day 54 | Feb 22

My boys have been enjoying the comic strip "Garfield" lately. I spotted a couple of Garfield books when I was working at the library and just had to check them out. The boys have been reading them together and giggling themselves silly!

Day 55 | Feb 23

Miss Aubrey has watched her brothers enjoy the comics, so she thinks they must be interesting! Sunday before church she was trying to read the comics from the newspaper by herself!

Day 56 | Feb 24

Today was the second grade patriotic program. I couldn't attend the evening performance because I had to work, but luckily I caught the performance for the school in the morning. The second graders did an awesome job and just about brought me to tears when they sang, "Proud to be an American".

Day 57 | Feb 25

It has been unseasonably warm here lately. This is the first time I can remember the kids playing in the sand box together in February!

Day 58 | Feb 26

Tonight was Jonah's Blue and Gold scout banquet. They had an Olympics theme and got to play fun games like "speed skating". Jonah even got to hold an actual Olympic torch, which was from the summer games in Barcelona in 1992.

Day 59 | Feb 27

Tonight we took the kids to the UVU men's basketball game. It was a really close game and we had a great time. They boys got some fun souvenirs and even got to meet Willy Wolverine!

Catch the Moment 365 | {February 14- February 20}

 

Day 46 | Feb 14

Eli was SO excited to exchange Valentine's at school this year. When he got home from kindergarten, the first thing he did was pull out ALL his Valentines to show them to me. What a cutie!

Day 47 | Feb 15

I made some fun valentine's crafts and lip suckers for my kids, but did not have time to take pictures on Valentine's Day because I was volunteering at the school and then worked in the evening. So I made them pose for me the day after Valentine's Day and you can see more of the pictures here.

Day 48 | Feb 16

Hooray for sunshine! It has been cloudy and dreary here for over a week, but today it finally cleared out. It sure was windy though! Then in the evening we were watching the Olympics and I looked over to find Miss Aubrey fast asleep in the recliner. What a cutie pie!

Day 49 | Feb 17

We had an eventful President's Day. I looked out the window to see a firetruck and ambulance in front of my house! A neighbor had a carbon monoxide alarm go off, so they came to check it out. Luckily the house was fine. The firefighters were so cool! They showed the kids the truck and equipment and then let Eli sit on the truck for a picture!

In the afternoon Daddy got a reluctant Miss Aubrey to take a nap by cuddling on her bed with her. Of course he fell asleep too!

Later the kids got to ride their bikes outside and I was cracking up at Eli's helmet hair. Can you tell he was NOT happy that I wanted to take his picture?!

Day 50 | Feb 18

The temperatures today were in the low 50s, so we decided to have a picnic lunch in the park. It was still a bit cool and breezy, but we had a fun time.

Day 51 | Feb 19

This morning I caught the boys doing some cooperative coloring. I just love that they are working on a drawing together.

Day 52 | Feb 20

Here is yet another picture of the moon as I was getting home from the gym in the morning. It's a good thing I snapped this picture! The rest of the day got busy and I didn't manage to take any other pictures. I may have to do a tutorial on how I "shoot the moon" because I have had a few requests!

Feeling the LOVE!

The song for this week's Songography is "I'd Do Anything for Love" (But I Won't Do That) by Meatloaf.

At first I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to take a picture of for this song. But then I realized that there were TONS of things that I did this week out of love for my sweet children... but there are some things I will not do!

When the kids wanted to know if I would make those awesome lip suckers that I made last year, of course I said YES (as long as you promise to pose for pictures)!

But don't ask me to take a selfie with my own big red lips... I won't do that!

I will gladly help you make Valentine's for your classmates.

But don't ask me to come up with my own creative Valentine idea, or do much more than print out a simple baggie topper. Having learned from past experience... I won't do that!


I will also be more than happy to buy you some cute Valentines from the store if that is what you want instead of homemade Valentines.

But I am afraid you are going to have to address them yourself... I won't do that!

I would love to come and help out with your class Valentine's Day party, even when they ask me to come up with a cool craft for your classmates to do (crafts are so much harder than games!).

But after discovering that you are the only kid in your class that is clever enough to figure out how to actually DO the craft and then having to scramble to make the craft easier... well, next year I won't do that!

When your completely awesome Grandpa sends all of us a box of chocolates, you can bet I will let you eat them up (but not all at once)! Yum.

But don't ask me to share my own 2 pound box of chocolates... I won't do that!!

I love my three sweet kiddos, aren't they adorable? They fill my life with joy and laughter. I would do just about anything for them!

Unless they ask me if they can have the last sugar cookie with sprinkles. You know, the one my friend brought over just for me (and the kids already had one)? I won't do that!

We had a fun and fabulous Valentine's day full of LOVE, and we hope you did too.

Hugs and Kisses from the Honey Household!

XOXOXO

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Catch the Moment 365 | {February 7- February 13}

Happy Valentines Day!

I meant to get this post done earlier, but I was busy getting things ready for Valentine's Day and helping out at school. Tonight I am actually working at the library, so I finally had time to get it done. Hope your Valentine's evening was more romantic than mine is!

Day 39 | Feb 7

This morning after I dropped  the boys off at school, Miss Aubrey showed me what was in her coat pockets. It seems she liked the look of these pencil sharpeners from the supply store we went to yesterday, so she put them in her pocket! We had a little discussion about how mommy has to BUY things before we can take them from the store and then we took them back and apologized.

Day 40 | Feb 8

We were hoping for a snow day, but woke up to a soggy, rainy day instead. So we drove up the canyon into the mountains near our home and found lots of snow to play with. It was so fun!

Day 41 | Feb 9

Today was another rainy day. The snow in our back yard is turning into an icy puddle! It was the kind of day that makes you want to go to bed and take a good nap.

Day 42 | Feb 10

Today we finished making Valentines for Eli's class. He was very excited to give his classmates each a bouncy ball, and I was excited that they were so simple to make!

Day 43 | Feb 11

I had to get some supplies from the craft store, so I told my kids if they were good at the store they could pick something from the dollar section. They picked posters to color, which made for a nice and quiet afternoon.

Day 44 | Feb 12

For Tiger Cub Scouts tonight, my husband and I taught about collections and how to label them. Jonah brought his rock collection as well as his collection of Lego Star Wars mini-figures. We labeled the mini-figures because they are much easier to identify than rocks!

Day 45 | Feb 13

This morning before school, Jonah worked on addressing his Valentine cards. I actually bought these robot valentines a few years ago on clearance, and Jonah was happy to use them for his class this year.

My Day at the Winter Games

This week's song title for Songography is the Danielle Bradbury's "My Day", which is one of the official songs the United States is using to promote the Olympics.

We love the Olympics! We have been watching the TV way more than usual, and my boys have been telling me which sports they plan to compete in when they grow up (bobsledding, snowboarding, and downhill skiing). It has been really fun!

We watched the opening ceremonies last night and I even made Russian blini for my kids. We hoped to wake up to our own winter wonderland. But alas, it was raining this morning!

So we drove up the canyon this morning to find some snow and participate in our own winter sports.  We found plenty of snow, and fun!

We intended to go sledding at a location further up the canyon, however my van was disqualified due to lack of four-wheel drive. But team Honey was not defeated! We turned around and found a picnic area to stop at and play our snow games. The first game commenced as soon as the competitors were properly dressed. Eli was victorious in the cross-country hill climb, and Miss Aubrey definitely won gold in snow angel creation.

Jonah dominated the field with his snow ball rolling. You should see the huge snowman we made!!

There were some snow sports that were not officially sanctioned, however the kids all participated in snow-eating, no matter how much I tried to discourage them!

Silly kids! Of course the traditional snowball-throwing competition was also a part of our winter games. As you can see, the competitors had no trouble making snowballs of epic proportions!

I am not sure if there was judging in the category of cuteness, but I think Miss Aubrey was a definitely a medalist!

What an epic day we had at the winter games! It was wonderful.

Today was My Day! I felt like a gold medal mommy! Even though it took quite a bit of effort on my part and I was tempted to take the easy path, I chose to take the kids on an adventure rather than sit around and watch it rain.

It was a beautiful day!

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