February Fun

Harry Potter Movie

The local theater shows one "oldie" or so a week. This month they had the second HP movie and the kids were so excited to see their first HP movie in the theater! Lorelei even had the full experience with Butterbeer! (Makin chose chocolate milk since he only likes frozen Butterbeer.)

Snow!

We were so excited for a snow day!

"Look mom, I'm a penguin!"

Funday Friday At The Lake

We had a warm Friday and enjoyed meeting friends at the lake! (Oh the ups and downs of winter here! A week after all that cold we can enjoy warm weather at the lake!)

Friend Time

We had special friend time including meeting pets, Nerf, games, and a dip in the hot tub!

Olympics/Cool Runnings

We have watched the Winter Olympics in short spurts this month. Brad chose a favorite to go with that theme for movie night - Cool Runnings!

Valentine's Day

We enjoyed extra sweet treats and keeping our tradition of chocolate strawberries! (The first year in forever with NO valentines...but it was really ok with me for some reason?!)

A quick holiday writing assignment for Makin.

OM Workdays

February is a huge push on all things OM so we put in lots of hours of overtime this month!

(As you can see on the left, the house is a pretty chaotic mess through this process!)

Lots of time figuring out vehicles.

Paper mache.

House is hopping with projects.

Had to add the second layer Sunday afternoon.

Time to make some gears.

Their favorite tool this season.

They used free paint samples for the outside of the clock.

Cutting gears as the sun goes down.

Working on the numbers for inside the clock.

Painting the second batch of gears.

Outside clock face.

Adding a pistachio shell border.

Coffee grounds to make the numbers...

Finally rehearsal time!

Crazy hat.

Finishing up the outside clock face, which included adding coffee beans for the hands.

Mostly finished inside...

Last-minute vehicle changes the morning before the competition
as we re-read the rules and discovered we needed to make a change.
Not something you enjoy but SO glad we figured it out before the competition!

Competition here we come!