Another month has slipped by. Here are a few pictures of things we have been up to:
My mom and I went into town with the purpose of going to Sam's Club to buy spinach and cheese. That seems pretty harmless, right? After we finished at Sam's (and only buying a little candy) I said to my mom "So there is an hour before the kids will be in bed. Where are we going now"? I wasn't really serious. But she was. So we went to TJ Maxx and found these super cute chickens. I had to bring them home. Aren't they so cute? :)
Brynn made this picture in art class. They were talking about Native Americans.
Claire loves the days we watch Cohen. They play together really well. This day they played prince and princess. Cohen was a reluctant prince. He tried to rip his princely vest off when it got in the way of his crawling around. We sure love this little boy!
Shawn made us all pink heart pancakes for Valentine's Day. They were a hit! I can never get pancakes to look like anything but misshapen snowmen so I was impressed with this. He also bought flowers for all four of us girls. Good job Daddy!
I have wanted to make a log cabin quilt for years. This year I used some of my birthday money to buy fabric and get started on that quilt. It involved lots of cutting fabric into strips. I purchased some pre-cut strips (the rolls in the back) and decided that is really the way to do these things. Aren't they pretty all wrapped up together?
We have not had much snow this winter. So whenever we get any snow the girls are really excited to play in it. This day it snowed enough that the girls made a little fort in the back yard and this little chickie. It cracks me up that my girls made snow-chickies.
Last month one of our chickens, Peck, died suddenly. We were all very sad. These birds are definitely beloved pets. So this month when the baby chicks came in to the local IFA we decided to get two more. These are our new babies, Buffy and Penny. Bonus points for anyone who can tell me what TV shows we got their names from. Buffy is a Buff Orpington. She will be a beautiful yellow-gold bird when she is full grown. I wanted a Buff Orp solely because how pretty the adult birds are. Penny is a Amerucana like CeeCee. We are hoping she will lay green eggs. They have taken up residence in an old cooler in the corner of our dining room. It is fun to have them inside and watch them do their chicken thing all day long. They are surprisingly noisy. We can hear them from our bedroom at night. I am wondering how long they will last inside before Shawn starts to protest. :)
This month I participated in my first triathlon. It was a blast! It was a indoor triathlon held at USU. I did it with a bunch of my buddies from CrossFit. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE
CrossFit?
We started out with a 400 Meter swim. Yes I know I look creepy in my tinted googles. That may be a purchase I need to rethink.
After the swim we hopped out, threw on some shorts (and I pulllllllllllllllllllled my knee brace on...I need to work on transitions for sure) and headed over to the fieldhouse where they had stationary spinning bikes set up. We did 6 miles on the bikes. This was actually really fun because we just turned the resistance clear down and pedaled the crap out of those bikes. At one point I hit 30 MPH. Too bad this is not what road biking is like. It was also really fun that Shawn could come up and chat with me while I did this part. I was so glad he was there cheering me on. Thanks baby!
After the bike we did a 4K run on the indoor track. That translated into 20 laps. And as you can tell from the picture I was feeling it by the end. (PS-I hate pics of myself running, I always look like I am in pain...which I guess is usually true).
The whole event was fantastic and I can't wait to try a sprint triathlon this summer. I was ridiculously proud of my arm and calf tats that I was able to sport for a couple of days. Silly, I know, but so cool!
The girls asked me why I had mooo written on my arm.
And here is the calf shot. I know you wanted to see. This event was totally the highlight of my month! Oh and the fact that later that night we got Indian food and ate it in front of the TV. Good times!
The next day we had Mom and Dad, Jake, Shanna, and Cohen over to eat scones. They were super greasy and buttery and gooey and yummy! We haven't had scones in a really long time. When we were kids Jake and Mike used to make scones all the time on Sundays but they were never patient enough to let the dough rise so it was like eating hockey pucks. Funny I know, but I really was nervous to start frying them until Jake got there to tell me what to do.
Oh, and this is my new haircut that I got just today. What do you think? :)
I hope you all had a great February. Time to bring on Spring!
