Daryl and I've Been Married Ten Years

   A couple days ago was our tenth anniversary.  To celebrate Daryl and I went to Vancouver BC last weekend.  We got our first every couples massage, and we are sold.  It was very relaxing and the hour just flew by.  I was looking forward to finally going to Capilano Suspension Bridge Park.  I've been wanting to go without my children for two years, and we finally made it happen. We also rode the tram up Grouse Mountain to eat at The Observatory up there.  The view was incredible.  We got to see the city and Vancouver Island.  It was a great trip, and it seems crazy that ten years has gone by so quickly.

Hey we took one picture of use together.

This is the catwalk at Capilano.

Another view of the catwalk.

The titular suspension bridge.

This gives you a better idea of how high up the bridge is.

On our way up Grouse Mountain.

That's Vancouver Island out there.

Our view from our table of downtown Vancouver.

Avery's Long Lost Second Grade Concert Rescued From my Phone

      While perusing my pictures on my phone I realized that I neglected to mention Avery's second grade concert featuring the music of Disney.  Avery was so excited about this concert because she got to have a speaking part.  She practiced so hard.  It was a big deal.  Then the original concert date got cancelled because of the snow, and then the make up date almost got cancelled.  Avery did great, and it was a pleasure to see her so happy and excited about her speaking part.

Here's March

  Looks like an entire month has passed us by already.  It's been good around here.  Avery and Harper started piano lessons the last week of February I think, but at any rate this was their first full month of piano lessons.  So far Avery really enjoys them and doesn't need  much prompting to practice.  Harper needs more time to warm up.  

I was trying to get a picture of Luke burying his face in his Jello bowl eating it, but he suddenly decided to eat civilly with his spoon.

Apparently this new table we put in the kitchen is really an elaborate holder for Sisko's plastic cat bed. 

Tyler and the girls playing with Tyler's new Nintendo Switch. The game they were playing was a baby simulation, so Tyler is actually cradling his "baby" in the picture.

Karl and Daryl hanging out.

Luke playing the iPad and Sisko converting yet another piece of furniture into cat furniture.

Luke was on a real kick eating this way for a couple weeks.  I imagine he just practicing for his ultimate destiny winning a pie eating contest.

Then Luke had to move his blanket with his teeth.

Harper set up her dentist office one day, and gave Emery a check up.  Avery's just photo bombing.

Em hamming things up.

Emery and Luke really wanted to hang out in this basket one morning.

Harper had to make a leprechaun trap for her class.  All I can say is thank goodness for Pinterest.  I've never built a leprechaun trap before.  It wasn't a think I was a kid.

Luke saw me cleaning the range, and insisted on helping me.  He is so sweet.

Harper posing for me at the piano.

Emery has discovered Super Mario Brothers on the Wii, and she is in love.  She is surprisingly good at actually.

I got new mattresses for Avery and Harper, and Luke wanted to be in the box while it stood up vertically.  I think he said something about it being a rocket.

We also got the Nintendo Switch this month with the new Zelda game.  Avery and Harper both enjoy playing it.  Harper is particularly funny to watch play.  Once she encountered a beehive in the game, and panicked so much she had to stop playing.  

Harper watching Avery play Zelda.

Were you wondering where all the pillows on my bed were.  They are all on the floor courtesy of Emery and Luke.  They love to throw them all off and jump on top of them from the bed.  Sometimes they hide them too, or pretend they are a boat.

An Abundance of Artwork

  When you have kids in preschool and elementary you're going to get a lot of artwork.  It is a constant in life.  Here is the latest batch.

Harper made this gorgeous rainbow.

Harper created this portrait of me.  I got to pick the colors of my striped shirt.  The likeness is uncanny.

Emery made this beautiful piece of modern art at preschool.  I'm sure she chose the pink color to symbolize shattered innocence.  A fine example of modern art.

I think this was Luke's snowman, or it might've been Emery's.  I really can't remember now.

A snowman by Harper.

Emery did this pretty cherry tree.

Emery made the shamrock, and Luke made the rainbow.

February 2017

  February was weird this year because it was really cold and snowy.  Usually if we are going to get any snow it would have already come by now, and it had.  I always feel good after Martin Luther King Jr. Day if we didn't have any snow days at school.  If we made it to the day with no snowy days we are usually in the clear.  Well, not this year.  We got so much snow up at our house.  There was easily seven inches.  The kids got two days off of school, so now our school year got extended by two days.  I know I am not going to like it in June.  By June I am just as antsy as the kids are for the school year to be over with.

A cute Valentine Harper made for Daryl.

Harper wrote that she likes to play with her Dad, not pay with him.

Luke in a box holding one of his favorite toys: jet!

Luke laughing.

I can't get enough of him in the box obviously.

Emery does really like posing for the camera.

Too much snow.

Our deck taken over by snow.

This is what the front looked like covered in snow.

Emery wearing her heart glasses on Valentine's Day eating her heart sucker.