Monday

Family home evening rocked today!!  Lego game with a strength for youth twist!!  Also, went and ran/walked 2 miles after lifting weights at the gym!!  Wooohhh!! I hope everyone's Monday went as well as mine!! Tell me about it, please.

Lowell has Arthritis on his spine

So we found out this past week that Lowell has arthritis on his spine due to a slipped disc from 3 years ago when we moved here and were in a different unit.  So he needs surgery and won't be going to Sgt course like he had planned to in April.  We are very sad to be telling you that, considering we have been trying to get in for a real long time.  Well that is our update for the month of February.

Danika lost her first tooth

Danika's tooth started wiggling after church started and was out by bed time the same night.

K- Bay Air Show

This year we went to the K-Bay Air Show because Lowell now works on the fire trucks on the air field.  So if I wanted to see my husband at all that weekend I had to go to the air show.  So Saturday we took some friends in with us and were there all day.  Here are some highlights of our day.  If you want to see more pictures you will have to go to Facebook and look me up.

It's been a while

Wow it's been a while since I last posted. It has been at least a 6 months or so. So we had a great Halloween this year. We also bought a new car. We now have 2 cars. We had an awesome Thanksgiving at a friends house and we didn't have to cook at all. On Thanksgiving we went to the park and played for about an hour and then went back to our friends house and headed home. On Christmas we were all so excited to get all of our presents, but we didn't wake up until 8 am, unlike last year when we were up at 5 to webcam with the in-laws.

For New Years Lowell was on vacation and so we just played video games and watched about 3 fireworks shows from our front and back yard. Danika went to bed at her regular time, because she was tired and didn't take a nap. For Valentines Lowell got us yummy treats with cute animals connected to them. I got him some dark chocolates that he loves and I made a new chicken dinner and home made cookies. Well I hope everyone is well and safe. I will add some photos of things we have done since my last post.

Little Grey

This year we spade Baby Bunny and got a new bunny whose name is Little Grey. I got to name him this time and you can see why he is named that.

Easter this Year

We colored our own eggs and bought plastic ones that were pre-filled because Lowell is lazy. We took "Little Grey" around and took pictures of him hiding the eggs so Danika would have to know where the picture was taken to find the next egg. She had loads of fun.

The starting point was the eggs in the basket with Little Grey on top. He is about to jump off the bucket so it's not a very good picture. Now he is on the potty. Next to the blocks bag.

In the drum set upstairs. In the tub in Danika's bathroom upstairs. In the laundry room. On the bongo drum.

Theses are the eggs we colored in water and vinegar.

Danika decided that we should color them with our markers as well.

So here is an egg starting out being colored and hiding Danika's face.These are the finished products of the egg coloring and dying.And the finished product of Danika's hands and face. Isn't she so sweet to show me how messy she can get?

New Skates for Danika

A neighbor down the street saw Danika eyeballing her daughters old Dora the Explorer skates. You know the kind, the ones you have to wear shoes and then you put your foot in and tighten them with that one strap in the front. Anyway she said her daughter no longer used them because they were too small for her and she gave them to us. We went to the exchange and got her some pads and gloves and a helmet at the thrift store. She forgets about them and then remembers them and has a real hard time so we don't wear them much.