February Misc.

Way to go Clark! 

Dress up like favorite book charter.

Fun night at the park.

Mom's been going curly.

Hanna's Haircut

As an Early Childhood Educator in college, I was taught to say, “yes” to toddlers as often as possible. Well, now I’m a mom of teens and I feel teenagers need to hear, “yes” way more than young children need to hear it. Mom can I pierce my ears? “Yes”. Mom can I dye my hair, “yes”. Mom can I shave my head? “Yes”. Does this mean my child is out of control? No! We talked about the consequences, we talked through her reasons, we talked about different situations she may feel uncomfortable in, but guess what she still wanted to do it, so dad shaved it for her. Some great advice I’ve learned from the Light the Fight podcast is to “Err on the side of the relationship”. There was no fight or argument over these situations, we had respectful conversations and then said, “yes”! Let’s try and say, “yes” to our teenagers more often.

Happy 9th Birthday Clark

We celebrated Clark's 9th Birthday yesterday at the park. He asked for an Amungus cake, a bike/scooter riding party at the park and his favorite pepperoni pizza from Little Caceres for dinner. 

Happy Birthday Clark, we love you so much!

One Very Busy Tooth Fairy

 

Plus swinging at the park.

Happy Valentine's Day

  We celebrated our traditional Valentine's Date Night with the Leavitt's last night. We ate at Lazy Dog's, it was the only place we could get a reservation at. This was our 14th year in a row. 

Clark Misc

It snowed in Vegas!

Our friends on the North side of Vegas got way more snow than us, 

but Clark was happy he was able to build a tiny snowman.

 

We got another car.

Clark got to go back to school, it's almost been a year! 

He grew 2 sizes in the past year!

Ready for school!

Mr. Personality

          

He was happy to be back in class!

Jane Misc

Celebrating 100 Days of School

Little old Jane

Sleeping

Jane swinging!

Clark and Jane get to go to school together!

Jane received the Leadership Award.

Jane made a copy of her card.

Hanna and Her Cat Milton

 

Ear Piercings For Hanna

 Hanna paid for the Helix on both ears.

I paid for the Shen-Men also known as the flat on one side. 

Some people believe it can help with anxiety.

The funny thing is our rule was no piercings until your 12 years old.

Hanna didn't even want her ears pierced until she was almost 14.

Since then she has paid to get all these other piercings.

This is one thing I have chosen to pick my battles on.

"Hanna Can We Make Pretzels"

Hanna makes homemade Auntie Anne's Pretzels 

and they are so good!

After church Clark asked Hanna if they could 

make those yummy pretzels together.

These two are 7 years apart, but have a special bond.