February Fun

When I saw some warmer weather days in the forecast, I had to plan some outdoor fun! Overall we have had quite a mild-weather February, which suits us just fine!

Lake Time

We organized a meet-up at the lake with some friends.

Wayback Barn

We discovered an awesome new location for some "outdoor recess" fun.

Taxi Mom

This year I feel I'm often wearing my taxi driver hat and decided to take a picture of us in the car to note this chapter.

All The Furry Friends

Lorelei loves time with the horses at horseback but also sneaks in some dog and cat time too!

Bake Sale

Lorelei organized a bake sale fundraiser to fund the film project she is working on with friends.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day always includes extra yummy treats!

Gimmie That Sunshine

Makin and I snuck in a walk on a sunny day. He had this playground entirely to himself!

Field Trip Friday

We took an extra-faraway field trip this month! On the agenda: Fabled Bookstore, Texas Rangers Museum, The Silos. It was an awesome day!

Walking through the wardrobe into the children's section.
(This is amazing for us Chronicles of Narnia fans!)

Do you spy the dragon?

Makin and I read an excerpt from this in our Texas History book so it was one of our favs.
The Texas Rangers always have to address whatever problems Texas needs them for...at this point in history people were unhappy the open range was closing, so they would cut the barbed wire fences that the ranchers put up.

A bit blurry but loved that they could see how heavy some of the guns the rangers carried were!

Chillin' at one of my happy places - The Silos!

Nothing quite like soccer in flip-flops. :)

So thankful these friends were up for a Friday adventure with us!

Breakfast Date

Can you tell Brad and I are working harder on our goal of more dates? ;) Delicious Saturday morning breakfast date!

One Bowl

When you ask a teenage boy not to have more than one bowl of cereal...

Mud Treatment

No need to pay for those fancy mud treatments at the spa... ;)

Lego Club

This month Makin decided to make a Nerf target that cheered when you hit it and then made cricket noises when you missed. It was a big hit!

Pic a friend captured.
In the last 30 min of Lego club the students take turns presenting their creations to their table.

Dog Sitting

Lorelei had a dog-sitting gig for the weekend  - living her dream!

Waiting for their person to be finished getting ready for church.

She got in some positive reinforcement training time!

PE Turned Park Time

Our homeschool PE class got unexpectedly canceled due to a miscommunication about the gym being available...so we just headed to the nearest park with most of the class! Makin talked me into getting his flag football gear and they played football as well as several other games. Always love when the kiddos have to collaborate on these things themselves! So thankful it was beautiful weather!

January Happenings

New Year's Day

We enjoyed New Year's Day watching the Rose Bowl Parade!

Arbor Hills

The kids and I ventured to Arbor Hills the week after New Year's. While Makin had a full class schedule (his teacher is a workhorse ;) ) we had more time because Lorelei had not started back up with her extra classes or activities yet. We had a sunny warm (ish) day so we got outside! This trip was all about "the crawler" who is now named Lil' Red as well as scouting out sites for the movie Lorelei plans to film with her friends.

New Book Release

They were so excited to read the next book in one of their favorite series!

Cold Temps

We had lots of cold-temperature days in a row (for Texas) so we did attempt to try frozen bubbles without much success.

Toss Toss

This age...always gotta be flipping/tossing something.

Lunch Date

Brad and I are terrible about fitting in dates even now that the kids are old enough to stay home on their own...but we fit one in while they babysat for someone else? Whatever works. We checked out an Irish pub and enjoyed some yummy stew. 

Basketball

It was ManeGait night at the Legends basketball game so we decided to check it out. It was pretty chaotic but was still great to get a chance to see what it was all about. It was an exciting game to watch!

Mom's Night In/Dad Kid's Evening Out

I organized a movie night afternoon/evening so Brad and the kids played games at the coffee shop and went to the movie Migration while the moms were at our place.

Winter Themed Read Aloud

This was a fun winter book recommedation we enoyed that included a bit of history too!

Lego Club

This month included a specific challenge of "Nature-Inspired Engineering" which was a great fit for Makin. He decided to go with a butterfly showing mimicry - if made into an actual robot it would be an "Undercover Butterfly" that could study the migration patterns etc as it traveled along with other real butterflies. He programmed it so that if you waved your hand in front of the eyes the wings would flap.

HS Hang Out

We met up for lunch for a HS hangout one Friday. Lorelei has lots of friends from HOPE but is still working on meeting new friends through our social homeschool group. So thankful she is excited to meet new friends even when she has to be brave :)

Games

Winter is a great time to fit in extra game time!

Ninja Nation

Makin enjoyed a couple hours at Ninja Nation with our homeschool group.

Horseback

We got rained out most of January but finally fit in one day of horseback!

Warmer Weather

Most Texas winters there is at least one warm-up with a few days in the 70s and we are SO thankful for this. We had one of those at the end of January and were so glad to get out and enjoy it as much as we could!