11 months old

This little boy turned 11 months old yesterday. I cannot believe it. This year has been the fastest of my life. He is just starting to take a few steps. He is such a happy baby and I love him dearly. Here are his 10 month pictures.

And his 11 month pictures.

Preschool

We have been doing a Co-op preschool since the beginning of the school year with Addy. We all kind of decided we were ready to be done. One of the kids had quit at Christmas, I wanted to start Addy in a ballet class before school got out, one of the other teachers just had a baby, and the fourth one is getting ready to move. So it was a good time to call it quits. So our last day we decided to just have a fun day at the park. We are going to miss Emmett and Allyson.

Gilbert Temple, Round 2

We wanted to take the kids to see the temple one more time before they dedicated it. So we went on Valentine's afternoon. The line was really long. It took us over 2 hours to get through the whole thing and it was pretty hot outside. But we got to take some fun pictures while we were waiting and it was fun to be in the temple again with my whole family.

Valentine's Day

We made homemade Valentines this year for the kids' classes. Thanks to pinterest, we found the idea for superhero and olaf Valentines. These are how ours turned out.

TJ told me that his were "awesomer than he even thought they would be." And Emmy had a whole theme with her mailbox and Valentine's, but I thought they both turned out pretty cute.

The night before Valentine's day, the 1st grade had a Valentine's choir concert so we got to go watch Emmy. The songs were really cute and she did great.

For Valentine's this year I got each of the kids a little bag with their pictures on them. I didn't really have a purpose for them but the kids have been taking their scriptures and hymn book to church in them. So that is fun.

Emmy loves slippers. She had been wearing some of my old ones so I had bought her and Addy some for Christmas, thinking that TJ wouldn't like them. But he was disappointed and told me he wanted some. So when I found these Angry Birds ones on clearance I had to get them for him. He loved them.

Me and Jamie had a pretty low key Valentine's. We went to dinner with a friend of mine who was in town from Michigan and her husband. We had a fun dinner with them at Cafe Rio and then just came home to get ready for our busy Saturday. The next day Jamie had a baptism at 9, we volunteered as Ushers at the Gilbert temple from 10 - 1:30 and then grabbed some lunch and went straight to the Mesa temple to go through the temple with Jeff and Carolyn. So it was a crazy busy day, but really good.

Date Night

The girls had their annual daddy-daughter Valentine's dance on the 7th of February. Evie was too young to go, but Jamie took her anyway so I could take Rook and TJ to the movie. Jamie said she danced more than any of them. She thought it was fun to get to go with the big girls. Here are the before pictures.

And here is the picture from the dance.

The Lego movie opened the same day so I decided I wanted to take TJ to it while the girls were at the dance. Rook was not very fun but me and TJ both LOVED the movie.