February

39 weeks today! Oh boy. February has been a good month. I've tried to plan fun things to keep me distracted from just sitting around thinking how much I want to have this baby! (It's sort of working). Jeremy and I have been able to go on a couple dates and we've been able to do some fun things as a family also. I want to get out and do things while we can before we're home-bound for awhile.

So the first weekend in February, Jeremy and I had a nice date night out to dinner. Jeremy got two gift cards from people at work, so we used one for a seafood place in Newport, Kentucky. Our server was awful, but my salmon was really good and it was nice to get out together.

Then last weekend we had a glorious 3.5-day weekend. Eli had a 4-day and Jeremy only works half days on Friday and then had Monday off, so it was a nice long weekend together. Saturday we cleaned the house really well and then took a big stock-up trip to Costco. Sunday was a great day at church and we had a nice Valentine's Dinner and dessert together as a family. When we got out of our meetings at church it was snowing like crazy! It wasn't snowing at all when we got to church, but by the time we were done, there was an inch or two on the ground and it was coming down hard. We were so excited! It was really the only good snowstorm we've had. When we got home it was so beautiful to look out our windows and see it coming down. We all just stared at it forever while making and eating dinner.

Then on Monday, the snow had stopped and we had a good 4 inches on the ground to play in! We had a yummy breakfast and then everyone got their snow gear on and we headed outside. We went sledding down the hill in our backyard and built a big snowman. It was perfect! I was so glad we finally had enough snow to play in and that it was a day where everyone could enjoy it.

 My phone doesn't take the best snow pictures, but oh well.

I took a few videos of our sledding fun. I even went down several times. It was so fun! Of course it didn't put me into labor (darn) but it was a lot of fun!

Jeremy on the first run. By the way, our sled was made out of a box covered in plastic - and it worked great! Good job Jeremy.

Eli:

Connor:

And Jeremy and Anna:

Then that night we used up another gift card Jeremy got and took the family out to dinner. It was a fun way to end the weekend.

Then on Thursday my parents came! They had been in Florida for 6 weeks and stopped in with us for 2 nights on their way back to Indiana. They thought about skipping out on us, but I'm glad they decided to come. :) The kids were so excited to spend some time with Grandma and Grandpa. Friday night, we got a babysitter and the four of us went out to dinner. We grabbed some Graeter's ice cream on the way home and ate it while watching a movie in our basement theater after the kids went to bed. It was a pretty great date!

And then yesterday, we had an AMAZING gorgeous day! It was 70 degrees and sunny! Hard to believe we could get that kind of weather in February, and just 5 days after we were sledding in the snow. We got our chores done quickly that morning and then we went on a looong walk through our neighborhood (trying to get baby coming) and then that afternoon we played outside and washed both the cars. It was so nice!

We had the music going and Anna busted out her sweet dance moves!

We took the kids to get some frozen yogurt afterwards at a newish place around the corner. It was a great day!