February Fun

February was such a busy month for us.  After looking at all of our pictures, it is easy to see why I got so behind in my blogging.  

Abi received her first professional haircut from my hairdresser Annie.  She opted for a long, layered cut and Annie straightened it for her as well.  I put in three teal green feathers, the current trend, for her that she had received from Nana Meek for Christmas.  She is also growing up too fast.

Kris and I attened the YMCA Jump Jive and Wail Benefit again this year.  Thanks to Paul and Alexis Rippel for the tickets.  We love having a night to get dressed up and spend away together.  We won our silent auction bid on a museum membership and are looking forward to taking our family many times.

Our date was also on Groundhog's Day and I felt a little bad leaving out kids for the night.  I found these cute little Groundhog pudding cups in the Family Fun magazine and made them for the kids to enjoy that night.

We put our museum membership to good use by visiting the carousel exhibit.  We loved looking at all of the different and beautiful examples of carousel carving and art.  But the children's favorite part was riding this 100 year old carousel.  "Horsie, Horsie," said Eva.  Abi, Tal and Leah each named their horses and had a pretend race.  Mom sat in the bench with Eva and tried to stare down the tail of the horse in front of me to ward off the motion sickness.

Kris took this great picture of one of the displays.  These pieces are true works of art.

Valentine's day is a fun day at the Meek home where we celebrate our love of our whole family.  Leah and Eva cheese as they show off their Spong Bob valentines.  Mom made a yummy dinner which we eat on our china.  For dessert we enjoyed these sinfully delicious cake balls.  They were dangerously yummy, dangerous because I could not control myself from eating them all.

Tal is studying Idaho History in Mrs Larson's 4th grade class.  For Valentine's day, they each made a covered wagon to collect their Valentines.  Mom, Leah and Eva helped out with his class party games and had a blast.

Kris celebrated his 35th birthday with a family dinner of tamales and cherry cheesecake.  We were so glad to have the Meek clan come over to celebrate with us.  Tal's birthday is also in February but he will have a post all to himself.

 
Tal played city league basketball with several of his friends this winter.  They were coached by Derick Thompson and Eric Leister.  City League was a whole new level for these boys.  They learned good skills, tried, their best, and had fun.  Hooray!

Tal practices his foul shots.

One crazy day I  launched into making cookies with these little cuties.  We make my favorite chocolate crack cookies so the girls could roll the dough balls in powdered sugar.  By the end of it girls, cookies and kitchen were covered in powdered sugar.  Too sweet!

For Blue and Gold Banquet this year, Tal decided that he wanted to make a Creeper from the computer game Minecraft.  As I was not so familiar with Creepers we had to do a little research.  We even tried our hand at spray color.  Our creeper turned out great and Tal was pretty proud of his creation.