February 2009-Kiawah Island

Starting February 25th I had the wonderful opportunity to spend a long weekend with 4 other friends in Kiawah Island, SC. We had the opportunity to stay in a multi-million dollar house-it had 5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, a media room, & a private pool just to mention a few of its amenities! It was a super active vacation: kayaking, biking, lots of walks it was so wonderful to see old Maritz friends and new friends too.

February 2009-Peyton's Baptism

One of the little girls in our small group, Peyton age 7, got baptized at church. Joshua was sick so we couldn't all go together, so Aaron stayed home and Hannah and I went to the service. Hannah was just in awe of the process and she was sitting on Nick's lap (a friend from small group) and said (as only a 4-year old could so honestly), "I sure do love Jesus but I don't like to go underwater!" I guess she'll be an adult baptism!

February 2009-Sweet Treats

Hannah and I have been having lots of fun making sweet treats. First we made Hershey Kisses (made of rice krispie treats) for all her classmates for Valentine's Day. Then she had a circus party at school and she decorated clown cookies all by herself!

February 2009-Trisha's Babies

Trisha & Clint's babies are home & healthy. The kids and I went by to meet Brayden Clint & Connor Stephen-they are precious! Trisha looks terrific and big sister Macy is doing good too.

February 2009-Why God Created Moms

I know that there are a hundred little verses & poems about "Why God Created Mothers" but I saw it firsthand this week. I had made BBQ chicken wings and purposefully kept a few plain for Hannah & Joshua. As Aaron was taking the meat off the bones for Joshua, he (Aaron) dipped it in the BBQ sauce before putting it on Joshua's plate. I said, "If he gets that in his hair you are on bath duty," to which Aaron says, "He's fine." Of course after every bite (of which there were MANY bites if you know anything at all about Joshua) he put his hands in his hair. After dinner while Joshua is playing, I see some sauce in his hair and point it out to Aaron. Aaron says, "no problem," picks Joshua up and using the dirty dish water wipes Joshua's hair down and says, "perfect!" and meant it! I am no longer worried about my position ever being eliminated!

February 2009- Hannah's new room

Now that Hannah turned four, she has her own room (she & Joshua have been sharing up to this point!) So the guest bedroom/sewing room (we moved my stuff to the garage, sad I know but it's working out okay) and we made it Hannah's room. We did it as economically as possible, keeping the wall color the same, same white comforter and my old bedroom furniture. That being said . . .I think we did a great job. It was a group effort by our small group: Marty helped us "borrow/steal" the idea (thanks Parker!), Casey & Mary Leigh used their cricut to cut out the letters & polka dots and I just love it:

Then Mary Leigh cut out fabric letters and I made a pillow with Hannah's name:

I'm not sure the pictures do it justice but the colors actually do look cute together!
I made the curtains, bed skirt, shams, and then a organizer for the back of the door just to have some extra storage space. Hannah loves her new room and it's nice having she & Joshua separated during nap time-it seems like they are both resting better (okay I'm resting better as well!).

February 2009-Bathroom Floor

Aaron is turning into quite the little handy man. He just re-did the (master) bathroom floor. It was bad enough that it was cheap linoleum, and to make matters worse it wasn't installed very well. So he ripped that up and then sanded down the concrete floor, painted and sealed it. It looks really clean & sharp! Good work honey!

February 2009-Hannah's 4th Birthday Party

It was a Strawberry Shortcake kind of birthday, decked out from head to toe in a strawberry shortcake shirt, skirt, bracelet & flip flops.

The party was at the YMCA and it was wonderful! We went to the party room, her friends sang Happy Birthday,

ate Strawberry Shortcake decorated cupcakes

then headed out to the pool (sorry Aaron got asked NOT to take pictures there so we are without pool pictures).

Hannah had gotten sick on Friday (101.5 fever, cough and running nose) so we were just happy that she did so well at the party. She came home and took a great nap and when she woke up, she used her new paint set from Aunt Lana to create quite a few masterpieces-look out Picasso.

My folks were able to be in town for the birthday festivities which was awesome. They got to swim with the kids, and then play outside during the beautiful weather we had this weekend. Of course we missed all of our families that just couldn't make it in this time.

February 2009-Hannah's 4

On Tuesday, February 3rd Hannah turned 4! It was a school day and she was so excited that her friends sang Happy Birthday to her and her teachers gave her a pink balloon. Her class at school has so many February birthdays that they are celebrating them with a party on the 19th, so we just sent fruit snacks for a pre-treat.

Since her party isn't till Saturday we let her pick any dinner she wanted and she picked Pizza Hut, talk about a girl after her mother's heart . . .wow it would have been my choice too! So we celebrated with pizza and presents. We took Joshua to the Dr. today and he has a double ear infection (his 1st ever and he got 2!) and an upper respiratory infection, so with him being so under the weather, Hannah's birthday had to be celebrated at home but we made the best of it. We got her a 3-in-one doll chair & I made her a body pillow that's just her size!