On a roll, that is what I am!!! Of course not only is February a short month, but also pre blogged just a wee bit… let’s see…

• Emanuel’s 12th birthday HERE
• Zander and Gavin turning 14 HERE
• Valentine’s Day HERE
• Chinese New Year Celebrations HERE

So see, much of my work is already done. You can check those links and refresh your memory of our fun! I know I enjoy a nice look back once in a while.

Well let’s see, there was more time in the snow.

More chinchilla pictures.

Many hours spent at our YMCA (not a surprise?).

We even brought 2 of the Novak boys to enjoy the pool (Alex and Aidan) during an overnight visit.

We had dinner with Maevowyn… I mean Aunty Shandai and Uncle Ravyn and Maevowyn. Belated Christmas fun there. Seriously Echo is in love with her baby cousin. As it should be!

Visited the aquarium at Mall of America.

Kept on acolyting.

We learned much.

Crafted some.

And played more.

Of course there was more to the month than all of this, but what a fun look back at some highlights.

One step WAY closer to current. Time to glance back at how we started this year. Now over midway through the memories are actually a little faint, so this will be a fun reflection back for myself as well!!

Let’s see less to share in January… Snow! Yup, honest to goodness white fluffy stuff. Which became white structures.

We made a trip to the Science Museum (with out large family the pass is awesome!).

Karate, of course!

Equally of course – the YMCA for workouts, swimming and all that jazz.

CHINCHILLA!!! Cuz you must embrace the fluff! Or at least look at my copious amounts of pictures of our Fluffy Overlord.

More crochet… and crafts

We did homeschool stuff, like look at snowflakes on black card stock and get to work on our Chinese New Year learning.

Ken and I saw interesting things.

And we even went out for ice cream.

Acolyting continued.

And life was, apparently good. Well according to the images I saw off my camera roll. If nothing else, the memories that these images popped up were great which to me is the most important part. And that was January!

Well, you can already see pictures from Halloween HERE, as usually it was a fun time.

Echo’s wedding dress photos are HERE.

October was also Ken’s birthday… his 40th if you can believe it! We kept it low key, just as the birthday boy requested. He is not a big party animal. But he also was given an award for his hard work involved in getting his mental health under control and advocating for the association that helped him. We got to dress up and everything!

It was a fun sort of duo season month with time to jump in leaves (and rake them up, slightly less fun)…

And a bit of snow to toy with as well.

We even had TWO foreign visitors, Jeff flew down from Canada to hang out. Never a bad thing, friends and family flying down when we still can’t return ourselves.

And Karyn!!! A shorter visit than her normal yearly visit but we packed in the fun and hugs and … shopping of course!

We had our yearly pumpkin patch trip with our friend Trish and her two kids. Always fun and thankfully on a day when the weather mostly cooperated.