Lu decided she didn't want to go on without Ethel... |
Mom is now collecting hearts... but she is doing it the hard way - found hearts... |
We collected a few stuffed animals for Doernbecher's... |
Then friends and family chipped in with even more animals... |
Harry would have liked to see all the kids that hopefully felt a little better on his birthday... |
He would have liked to see Lucie riding in the BEAT show this month too... |
Spring Break really isn't until next month, but Harry probably liked the warm weather in San Antonio... |
Harry wishes you all a Happy Valentine's Day |
Dad put a new camera app on his phone and had to play with that this month... He'll get over it. |
It lets him take some pretty cool pictures though (spoiler alert - some aren't so cool...) |
I decided that sitting in my pink deck chair maybe isn't a great idea any more... |
Alice visited us on Harry's birthday (obviously her mom, Susan, brought her but Dad didn't take her picture...) |
You might expect a traditional birthday song, but we go to Red Robin so we usually hear "Do we have a birthday here? Yes we have a birthday here! Birthday where? Birthday here! Ohhhhhh! |
Like Dad said - Winter finally showed up mid-February just in time for the horse show |
I rode two different programs |
Dad had to do something with the photos - the barn is always so dark and the pictures so grainy... |
Morgan apparently liked the snow though (even though it was outside the barn) - he had a lot more energy! |
Quinn surprised me at the BEAT horse show and we took her to Krispy Kreme for donuts... |
And Dad had to keep trying out effects on the phone camera... |
We didn't really get any kind of decent snow, but it at least looked pretty at Dad's work... |
In addition to ruining two days of school, they also cancelled "Vike Night" due to snow so Joshua and Quinn just hung out at my house! |
So another birthday has come and gone for Harry. Most of the world (or at least most of the United States) celebrated another Valentine's Day (meaning the florists, card shops, and jewelers made out like bandits again... But how do bandits make out? Don't they kiss like everyone else? I think I have digressed again...) and most Americans are probably also aware of President's Day and Groundhog Day and probably even Mardi Gras even if they don't remember Fat Tuesday is coming until someone tells them it already happened...
But what about Car Insurance Day, Hula in the Coola Day, Crepe Day, World Play Your Ukulele Day, Ice Cream for Breakfast Day, Canadian Maple Syrup Day, No One Eats Alone Day, Tartar Sauce Day, National Hate Florida Day (but if you don't want to pick on our 27th state, you can celebrate Cow Milked While Flying an Airplane Day (and don't ask me what a cow was doing flying an airplane!)) or For Pete's Sake Day? Of course, that is a tiny fraction of the holidays in February... You can find multiple holidays on just about every day of the month (of any month for that matter) so don't worry about going back to work... tell them your religion requires you to recognize everyone's holidays!
I hope you realize that rambling on about silly holidays is just another way for me to not actually say anything important in this space and I think you should recognize the effort I put into not going off on a longer tangent about Florida... I just left it hanging there... (think about it...)
The big news this month, of course, is invisible to you. I finally upgraded my computer, and as everyone knows, "upgrade" means "deal with a bunch of changes and try to make everything work as much like it used to as you can", and my web development software is quite old so it didn't make the transition which means I had to figure out a new way to make the website look exactly the same to you. I sure hope that worked...