Shoes

Shoes.  Lexi loves shoes.

At any given point during the day, Lexi can usually be found sporting someone else's shoes.

She is the cutest little stinker.


For example, here she is wearing Ty's boots:

What?  You don't walk around the house without pants wearing boots and a hat?  Weird.


And here she has on Kenna's shoes and Allie's helmet:

Really?  You don't put shoes over your pajamas and then wear a helmet on your head?  Hmm.  That's odd.


It's a good thing Lexi wore Allie's boots to help Dad fix the kitchen table.  He couldn't have done it without her!

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We love you Lou Lou!

Valentine's Fun

Anybody who is anybody knows that during the week of Valentine's is the biggest, best, and most anticipated event of the whole year...

...(drumroll, please)...

.... the Farm Show in Tulare, California!  Um, there's a place in California called Tulare?  

Jacob and his dad had been long awaiting their big adventure, and headed out on Monday afternoon for the big show.  I really really wanted to go.  Really.  Being the loving wife I am, however, I decided to sacrifice and stay home with the kids.  You know, school and such.  So I managed to convince Mom Israelsen to ride down with Dad and stay with me for the week while the boys were off on their farming adventure.  Yay!

The girls always get so excited when Grandma and Grandpa Israelsen come.  Not only do they know they get showered with plenty of love, but Grandma always manages to bring a fun treat or two.  They certainly weren't disappointed!  One of the favorites was when Grandma planted some ju ju hearts and we got to watch them grow.  How do Grandma's come up with such great things?!  Here Allie is being ever so vigilant at watching them grow.  You can see some little hearts starting to pop up out of the dirt:

 
Sure enough, on Valentine's Day they grew into a heart sucker!  The kids were so excited:

We of course can't forget the many games they played with Grandma, all the books read, and the yummy sugar cookies they got to decorate.  I am so ashamed to say I didn't even get a picture of Grandma and Grandpa when they were here.  I guess I got so busy enjoying myself I forgot to capture any of it.  It really was so nice having Mom here during the week.  Thank you again!!  I think I can speak for all of us in saying we thoroughly enjoyed it.

Perhaps the Farm Show wasn't quite as anticipated by the kids, but Valentine's Day sure was!  Here are the girls sporting their Valentine's boxes.  Kenna got to make hers at home and Allie did hers at school with her class:

Ty even got in on some Valentine's fun with his preschool class on Thursday, but once again, I didn't get a picture.  Sorry Ty Man.

And I must add that the two pictures Jacob took while at the farm show are still on his phone.  Yes, two.  Neither of us scored on picture taking it looks like.

Thanks Mom and Dad for the great week!  It was a perfect Valentine's! 

Reward

For the month of January, we decided to make a family goal of having no soda (seeing as though over Christmas we all had more than our fair share).  We all came through with flying colors, and the girls even mentioned they didn't even miss it.  The reward for reaching our goal was a trip to the aquatic center, and the girls couldn't have been more excited for it!  What, hold still for a picture?  Oh please Mom:

At first Ty and Lexi were a bit water shy, but of course right as we were getting ready to leave they warmed up to it.  Guess we'll have to venture out to the aquatic center again.  The pictures of them didn't turn out, so just imagine two cute little wet kiddos.

Kenna specifically requested a picture of her under the water, so here she is sporting her amazing skills:

Way to go us!