Night at the Hotel

A couple weekends back we spent the night at a local hotel with some friends! The kids were so excited when we told them! :)

They wasted no time getting into the pool!

Our stay was to celebrate Willa's 5th birthday

we got them out of the pool long enough to eat, have cake and open presents and then right back in they went!

Gramma Nellie even got in on the post dinner fun. She's the best

We had a pretty short night (which we expected!) so we got up early and had breakfast...a real quick breakfast...

and it was back to the pool before checkout!

 

Evie swam a little in the morning, but she was pretty tired (like her mom was) so she relaxed and just watched, too

after some tears, we packed our bags and headed home. so hard to let go of such fun times, sometimes!

some showers and lunch, and the afternoon was a pretty quiet one. Bentley fell asleep just laying down to watch TV!

We had a fun weekend, and the kids can't wait to do it again soon!

Bentleys 1st tooth

Much to all our surprise, the tooth fairy visited us this past week for the first time!

We spent Super Bowl Sunday with some friends, and upon arrival and in all the excitement, Bentley got bumped, resulting in a loose tooth.

(He told Grandma that Uncle Alex punched him. While it makes a good story, its not true!;))

As he jumped out of the car at the curb Monday morning at school, he told me "it'll be out when I get home, mom!" I wasn't sold...but boy was I wrong! He got off the bus less one tooth.

The tooth fairy came to visit, after a small scare. In the night, his pillow fell off his bed (the top bunk) knocking down all his loot and his note. He came into our room crying at 4 am, so upset that the tooth fairy had taken his tooth and not left him anything!

We turned the light on to find that she really had stopped, and it was back to bed for all. ;)

I found this on pinterest  She even left this adorable little report!

She was also very generous this time, which we are sure was just a one time thing...

Nevertheless, for $5 Bentley thinks he may be able to handle a couple more hits from Uncle Al. ;)

January recap

We enjoyed a pretty lackluster month of January, which was just perfect for us.

The kids had fun playing in the snow when we had snow, after being in the sun for so many days in Maui! :)

We celebrated Daddy's 34th birthday with dinner at China Inn and some R&R before bed.

We also celebrated Christmas a bit late with the Posma family. It is always so much fun to get together with the cousins!

A "snow" day (that was actually 40* and rainy) brought us our first 3D movie experience. We chose to see Monster Trucks, and while it was a hit with some of us, some of the others were a little scared. We left halfway through but will probably have to rent it on demand when we can!

We enjoyed a 60* saturday which brought us great opportunity to clean up our quads!

A day off school spent bowling with some friends thanks to Aunt Sarah while Mom worked!

Post church lazies on a Sunday!