February 2015 - Tyler turns 2, trip to Zion, and our little valentines

We celebrated Tyler's second birthday with a trip to the Curiosity Museum at Thanksgiving Point. It was lots of fun and we were glad to be able to go there with Grandma and Grandpa Sweeny.

We then came back to the house for pizza and batman cupcakes. We are in love with our adorable, happy, smiley 2-year old boy who brings so much laughter into our home. Tyler's head is huge--98th percentile--and he's 97th for height! His favorite gift was probably the Cars movie and book--he reads the book almost every single day.

Here's a video of Tyler blowing out his candles :)

We took a weekend getaway to St. George with Grandma and Grandpa Sweeny in early February and had a blast swimming and hiking at Zion.

This doesn't really fit in anywhere, but here's a funny picture of Alexa eating grapes with her toes. The other day I asked her to hand me her water bottle and she grabbed the loop at the top with her toes and gave it to me with her feet. She gets it from Kyle.

The other highlight of the month was celebrating Valentine's Day with the kids. This was Alexa's first time being in school (preschool) during Valentine's Day, so our first experience with her making Valentines for friends. It was really fun to make her butterfly valentines together, paint our toenails red and sparkly, and make heart sandwiches on the day of love. We even went and rode the carousel for kicks. Craig watched the kids while Kyle and I went to one of our favorite restaurants for lunch, La Jolla Grove. I love that man of mine and what a good father and husband he is. He has done so much over this last year to take care of our home and family and be an incredible dad. I come home to the kids helping him build stuff, helping him make dinner, and doing other incredible things together. I am a lucky woman to have him as well as two incredible kids.

One sad event in February is that Granny ended up in the hospital with pneumonia and RSV. We visited once in the hospital and then a couple of times in her rehab facility. We had some sweet moments with the kids where they gave her a foot massage and sang to her. She's doing much better now and glad to be home!

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