Basketball

Gabe played in his last regular season basketball game on Saturday.  He has been playing in a rec center league for the Warriors.  We have enjoyed watching him throughout the season and see him improve. 

February....so far, so good

We have had two weeks of fun around our house.  Here are a few pictures of the highlights:
Mindy played in a volleyball tournament with some friends.  They won a few and lost a few, but had a great time playing all day!  We started around 9:00 and ended around 6:00.

 Maddie went to Winter Formal with a few of her girl friends.  She looked very pretty in her dress, and had a good time.

The entire family went to visit the Eichelbergers so that we could meet the newest member, Ethan.  He is one month old.  He is very cute and very good.  He reminded me a lot of Gabe as a baby.  He looks like a newborn, and acts like a newborn, but at 11 pounds, doesn't feel like a newborn! 

For Valentines Day, we gave the kids huge Hershey Kiss chocolates.  We also wrote about the things that we love on our "moments we love" hearts.  As an added treat, I made heart shaped pizza with cheese in the crust for dinner.  They were delicious.

Philicellphia

Allie loves her science class.  This week she had a science project.  She was required to make a cell city, factory, or basically some kind of metaphor that included all the working parts of a cell.  I thought it was a great idea to cement some of the ideas of cell function for the kids.  Since Gabe was studying the same thing in his science unit, they worked on it together.  The assignment was to make a poster, but Allie wanted to do a 3D model for extra credit.  The three of us had a great time working on the project together.  I do enjoy working with Allie on projects, she is so creative and does things that I wouldn't even think of doing.  She must have a bit of Jeff's engineering mind as well, because not only does she envision something, she also can devise a way to make it just like she wants it (it usually involves tape).  I hope that she does well on her project.