Awards

Blake had his second trimester awards ceremony today.

Blake with his class.

Blake showing off his new awards advanced math, proficient language arts and citizenship.

Valentines Day

This morning Logan was the first one to wake up and find hearts by his bedroom door.

He was so excited as he saw more and more hearts. Logan followed the heart path all the way down stairs.

The heart lead to their big heart bin.

Sadie woke up to join Logan. Blake was up late the night before, so he slept in and missed all the fun. Inside their heart was a red shirt for the boys and a valentines outfit for Sadie.

Sadie all dressed up for Valentines.

All the kids dressed in their Valentines outfits.

Since the boys didn't have school today we took them to Grandma and Grandpas house so they could watch the kids while Rich and I went out to lunch. We had a very nice lunch with my brother Matthew and his wife Danielle at Wabi Sabi. It is one of those restaurants where they cook all you food for you at your table.

After lunch we had to hurry home to take Blake to baseball practice. While Blake was at practice I got our family Valentines dinner ready. We had our traditional red dinner with heart shaped pizza. It was a great Valentines spending it with all our loved ones.

Family hike

Today after I cleaned the house, I was ready to get outside and do something as a family. Rich suggested that we go on a hike to Etiwanda Falls. So we packed up the family and went on a hike. The hiking trails is right by Rich's brothers house so we called up to see if anyone wanted to go along. Brendan came with us and became our hike guide since he had been on it before. The path was very rocky which was heaven for Logan who enjoyed throwing the rocks.

Here is the trail for our path, way up ahead of us if Brendan and Blake. It was a little hard for Logan, but he walked the whole way. There was a point where Logan didn't want to go any further and Rich and I debated if one of us should take Logan and Sadie back to the car. I had Logan walk a little further and all the sudden he was excited and said, "Look mom we are in the mountains, we are climbing in the mountains!" So he got his second wind when he saw that we were no longer just on a path, but the path lead us into the mountains.

Almost to the waterfall!

Once we were almost to the end of the hike there was the run off from the waterfall. The kids were so excited to play in the grated up water.

We made it to the top!

Dad and Sadie resting from the hike.

Blake had fun exploring all the rocks and rivers around the falls.

Me with Sadie and Logan.

Blake with his cousin Brendan. We were so grateful that Brendan came along. He kept Blake entertained the whole time and showed us which way to go, which we probably would have gone the wrong way without him.

Logan showing off his rock that he is about to throw in the water.

The waterfalls was so much better than I thought it would be. I thought that we would just look at it from a distance, but it was fun since we were able to play in the water.

Eating our chips after an hour hike.

Blake looking down at the waterfall.

Brendan on the other side of the the falls.

Our family at the top of the mountain that we hiked.

On the way back down. The boys like to run which lead to many falls because of all the rocks.

The view from the top.

Sadie had fun on our little hike. She would have loved to walk more, but because it was so rocky we had to carry her most of the way. On the way down she fell asleep in my arms.

Logan carrying his big stick he found. We had a great time it was a little hard , but we are so glad we didn't turn around. I am so proud of our boys for doing a 3 mile hike! It was worth playing in the water at the end!

Logan's Valentine Party

Today Logan's preschool class had a party and their families were invited to come.

Logan's class eating their lunch together.

They all brought Valentines to hand out.

Logan getting his valentines from his friends.

Logan handing out his Valentines to all his friends with his teacher Mrs. Kim helping him.

At snack time they got to eat cupcakes.

Logan and his friend Ernesto.

I stayed and helped the rest of the day with centers. Here is Logan working on his numbers. It was fun going to Logan's class for his party. Logan loves his teacher Mrs. Kim, and all his friends. He is improving so much in his speech, and learning a lot. We are so proud of Logan and all his progress he is making.