Valentines Day

Speaking of traditions, every Valentine's Day we use Aunt Lois' heart shaped muffin tins to make heart shaped blueberry muffins, just like my mom did when I was a kid.  Jason and the Morphews to the same thing in LA.  We all have our muffins in the morning.  We are only allowed to go to Isaac's class parties now so we really enjoyed it!  But the talk of the day was the mystery Valentine DF got from a secret admirer.  We have no idea who sent this Valentine to him, but we hope to crack the case soon.  

Our baby is 5!

These kids love tradition, and balloons outside their doors on their birthday mornings are a must have.  Isaac also wanted banana pudding for his cake this year instead of cake so Nora and Mammers made this for him.  It was delicious!  Nora made him a special sign to wear to school and he got to take donuts to his class and had a wonderful birthday.  We love celebrating our boy and are SO thankful for him~

Ikey's 5th Birthday celebration

For Isaac's bday, he wanted Connor to come and have their first ever sleepover.  We went bowling, ate dinner, had TCBY cookies for dessert, watched a movie and they slept in the playroom.  It was such a fun night for these friends since birth and they'd been counting down the minutes.  It was a perfect way to celebrate our 5 year old baby boy!!!  We love you more than words can say, Isaac.  You bring joy and smiles to our faces each and every day.

Nora is a baller!

Nora is playing Upward Bound Basketball for the first time and she is loving it!  We also love watching her, she is scrappy and a go getter and we are all having a blast watching her.  She's scoring multiple shots a game and is quite the defensive player.  We are proud of our #3!

15 years without David

Some years the anniversary aren't as bad/hard.  Hard but not as bad.  This one, and the number 15 was.  I spoke about David to Nora and DF in a different, more real way and I told them funny stories about him.  

People think Nora looks like me in this pic...?

Wild Kratts Live

Justin Timberlake was not the only live performance I saw that week, we also took Nora and Isaac to Wild Kratts Live in Little Rock.  Nora enjoyed it, but Ikey was the biggest fan!  We ate lunch at the Capital Grill and had cherry cokes and cheeseburgers, that was my favorite part! 

Girl time

I have had some good girl time this month- our book club celebrated Alyssa's 40th birthday at Taco Mama and we tried a silly pic-  success.  Then I went to Little Rock to eat dinner with my high school friends.  We had tried to get together over Christmas and it was too hard.  A bunch of girls also went to Justin Timberlake concert and had a blast listening to our favorite songs in college.  It was 30 something moms going crazy and hilarious.  Kim and I tried taking a selfie picture like the teenagers do- we had so much fun laughing and dancing! We also realized we don't take friend pictures enough so that is what we are going to work on!  I love my friends and have great ones in my life.  My heart is always full after time spent with them.