February 2016

 Snuggle time with dad and some super cute pictures of P.J. in that awesome hat!

 That magical time, when all the kids fall asleep in the car and there is silence...

 Painting time for Parker and Lizzy

 Date for the 4 older kids and dad to IHOP...their choice for restaurant, which meant selfies for me and P.J. at home.

 A ton of yard work finally getting done. Our yard was highly overgrown and I was so excited to have a warmer day in February to tackle it! That was a lot of weeds!!!

 We had Great to be Eight night for our ward that I was over and made rainbow cupcakes for. It had been a long time since I had done an activity of any kind, so I was excited to get my creativity on!

 David started working at the temples on Friday nights from 3:30 pm to 10:30 pm, which meant that the kids and I watch a lot of Too Cute. A show where we are all entertained by the cute puppies and by watching Biscuit get so mad at the dogs on the t.v. 

 Maggie got her hair cut short and got BANGS!! Doesn't she look so cute and old?!

 I did a craft night with a friend and made a fun spring sign.

 I helped our overgrown rose bushes in the front yard on another pretty day of the month.

Trish and I had a much needed girl's lunch to Tsunami, a delicious sushi restaurant in South Jordan. Yum!!!

For such a short month we sure packed it in there! Pierce also had his first ear infection that month. Right at the end of the month his poor little ear drum burst. He had been grumpy, but at this age I can never tell if it is teething or an ear infection. Poor little guy.  

At our Stake Conference in January one of the speakers was a temple worker and mentioned that they needed about 400 extra volunteers to work in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple, since the Jordan River Temple would be closing for the next year and a half to 2 years. She told us that you can volunteer and don't have to be called by a Bishop or Stake President. I immediately thought that David should do it! That night he mentioned he had the thought that he should volunteer. I told him I had the same thought that day, so he called our Bishop and by the next week on Wednesday he had an interview with the temple president and then that Friday he started his first day there. When I first heard that he would be working every Friday from 5:30-10:30 at night, I was a little worried. But it hasn't been too bad. I hang out with the kids and then put them to bed and them I am able to do stuff I need to catch up on. It's been pretty nice.  He has absolutely loved working there too and has loved getting to be a part of something so special and important.  

We had Valentine's Day and had delicious Filet Mignons and all the fixings. It was very low key, especially since it was on a Sunday. It was fun to be with David and the kids that day though. 

I had been dying to fix my yard, since we moved in. It was quite the train wreck. So overgrown and just horrible! So any day that it was nice outside, I would take P.J. in his bouncy seat and get my gloves on and get to work.  It really helps not being 6 months pregnant!! Unfortunately these days though I have a very needy baby, who insists on being held or at least stared at for majority of the day. He let's his siblings entertain him for a little bit, but never very long. I still don't know how I get anything done with that little monster.  

The month flew by just like they all do and the kids just keep growing too fast. But the nights sure do drag on with P.J. and his no sleeping at night fun times!! :)  All I know is that I survived the other kids and I can survive little Pierce too.