Weekly Post

Monday morning I started working on a service project that our church Relief Society is doing.  We are making hygiene kits for Days for Girls.

After school I took Cole back to the orthodontist for another BROKEN retainer.  He made it 6 weeks without breaking, but now we are back at square one!

Cole went to the symphony on Tuesday for school.  He dressed up so handsome!

Wednesday was an exciting day for Shawn because his long awaited for office furniture finally came. Here he is enjoying his new office!

Here is a random snap shot of Liv and Cole doing there reading in the morning before school.

Liv and her friends came with me to Young Women's Wednesday night and got to do some crafts with us.

We also got a fun package from Aunt Brooke with a fan for Liv that they picked up when they were in Thailand over the Holidays. 

Ethan had another ski trip on Thursday after school so I didn't see him until 9pm, but this is what he spends most of his time doing lately..........face time and snapchat!

Friday afternoon Shawn and I went for massages and a nice lunch date.  We went out to dinner as a family and then took Ethan and his buddies to the high school basketball game.  Cole decided he wanted to go also so Shawn and I took Liv and Cole back over to the game.  We made sure NOT to sit by Ethan and embarrass him.  Cole ditched us as soon as the game started and sat by his friends.  I was able to sneak a picture of him sitting across the way on the front row.

Saturday morning Ethan had his first Young Men basketball game at 8am.  We lost, but it was fun.  We were short a few players at the beginning so Cole even got to play a little.

Shawn was working Saturday, but the kids and I went out to dinner with our neighbors!

I took a picture of this text between Ethan and his friend, I thought it was funny

 Cole and his friend spent time making Valentines for a special "girl", which they delivered Sunday morning at church.  Cole was so nervous, but it was pretty cute!

We enjoyed getting lots of fun valentine packages in the mail and the kids had fun parties at school on Friday.  Saturday afternoon Ethan and his buddy broke the window in the basement, that was not fun:(

Liv and I made chocolate covered strawberries for Sunday dinner after church.

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I tried something new Monday morning.  Hot Yoga!  It was weird and awesome and interesting all at the same time :)  Shawn would NEVER do it with me, but I'm open to try anything once!

We played games this week after FHE Monday night.  Cole chose apples to apples.

Shawn bought a new car on Tuesday.  No its wasn't really planned, he just came home from work and decided he wanted to trade my car in.  So he did.  We got rid of the old Pilot and got one of the new Pilots.  So not a crazy change, just a little upgrade.

Tuesday night we went out to dinner at Jose's Blue Sombrero for Liv's Gymnastic Team Fundraiser.  There homemade Guacamole is our favorite!

Wednesday night we had a fun joint Young Women and Young Men activity.  We played a bunch of fun games and finished this night with Family Feud!

Thursday Shawn and I went to Orange Theory Class and then I helped in Liv's class.  Liv had gymnastics and Ethan had futsal.

Friday night was busy for the kids.  Liv went to a fun birthday party/sleepover, Cole went to a fun birthday party and played bubble ball, and Ethan went to Skyline with his friend.  Shawn and I actually got a dinner date in between all of that.

Shawn worked all day on Saturday.  Ethan had futstal in the morning, Cole had his last two basketball games of the season, and Liv had gymnastics.

 Saturday night we stayed home and watched a movie and got the house cleaned up and ready for the next week.  Cole went grocery shopping with me.  Needless to say we came home from the store with a lot of junk :)  He is terrible to shop with!

We had a nice relaxing Sunday.  We ate a nice dinner, and watched a little football.  Ethan and I went to a Special Stake Youth Presentation in the evening.

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The kids didn't have school on Monday.  We headed back to the orthodontist that morning.  Cole finally made it 6 weeks without breaking his retainer (don't worry he broke it on Wed of this week, so we get to start all over AGAIN).

Liv played outside and went sledding with her friend.

This picture was taken when the kids were supposed to be doing homework.  As you can see, Shawn has enticed them all to watch something funny on the internet.

Ethan had another ski trip for school on Tuesday.  He had a blast!

Wednesday we had the Blue and Gold Banquet.  The kids got to participate in an Egg drop and Cole received a few awards.

Liv came home from gymnastics sick Thursday night, and spent the remainder of the night throwing up :(  She stayed home from school on Friday looking like this most of the day.

 She did get out once while we ran to the store.  

She was so weak she could barely walk, so she got a ride in the cart!

We had soccer, tennis, orange theory and a few other active things this week also.  Oliver is still doing good at his puppy classes.  He spends lots of time hanging out with me during the day looking like this...

Friday night we went to the Milwaukee Bucks basketball game.  They played Miami Heat.  It was a good game, but we lost in the end.

Saturday morning I dropped Ethan off at futstal and then took Liv over to the church for a Stake Activity Girls Day.  She had a lot of fun with her friends.

Ethan worked on a school project over the weekend that required me to dig up old pictures, like this one..

Liv worked on her Valentines box for school this weekend.

I had a church meeting Saturday evening and I wasn't feeling well, so I came home early and ended up throwing up all night.  Looks like Liv shared her little stomach bug :(

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We started out the week with Liv almost starting the house on fire.  Seriously!  Don't microwave mac and cheese cups without water.  Smoke was billowing out of the microwave and filling the kitchen.  

School Updates:
Liv started a book club in her class.  She is reading Superfudge by Judy Blume.

Cole went on a field trip to downtown Milwaukee and saw the play Holes.

Ethan spends most of his time texting, including lots of girls.  We actually had to have a sit down talk with him about it :)

Shawn and I went golfing.  I found a fun indoor golf place that lets you golf with simulators.  It was my first time golfing.  Let's just say I didn't do so awesome :(

I played in a Volleyball game Wednesday night for Young Women's and I got a new tennis racquet for my class.  We've spent a lot of time in the basement playing tennis as a family.  We've had a few mishaps, including shattering a light!  

Cole had snowboard lessons this week.  He is doing better and hopefully soon will be done with lessons and able to ski with Ethan.

Cole also had two basketball games on Saturday.  He scored several points and had lots of steals.

Ethan had futsal for a few hours Saturday morning.

Friday night was pretty quiet.  Shawn was working 24 hours and the kids and I had a nice night watching movies and eating popcorn.

Liv has been dying to get up some Valentines decorations, so she worked on that this week.

We went to the Blaze pizza place for dinner Saturday night.  It's like subway, but for pizza.

We stopped at Best Buy after dinner.  This is where I found the boys!

Then we headed to play Laser Tag as as family late Saturday night.  This place is a little different in that you actually have missions to accomplish during the game.  It was fun!  We played a few arcade games that night also.