On their way home from a fun filled trip in Disney the Natal's truly made Cienna's Birthday memorable by stopping by her classroom to play some math games with her classmates and then headed to Kaylee's class to create a wonderful story time for all of her friends too!
Cienna's troop had a CPR meeting which allowed Mommy and Kaylee to have a play date with Anabelle who is taking a leap with her family and moving to Oregon. Then we had the Geithman's over for a long awaited get together which went just as if we'd seen each other the previous day! That weekend we then got to pick up our first of many loads of girl scout cookies. Nobody will tell you other than Kaylee led the cookie sales... and Cienna made sure the money was accounted for.
We had another fun play date with Kamryn and Shawna full of imagination and Daddy getting a make-over.
The next day Cienna's troop had a "lemonade stand" for troop cookie sales which was more of a party with cookie sales on the side, as it should be! After that, Kaylee was ready to go back on her own for more cookie sales with her sister side kick. That night we had a delicious rib dinner with the Betrauns. It was great to re-unite and make sure to keep great friends even after he was lucky enough to retire last month.
Talent show practices continued and a bigger adventure was in our sights! We were ready for Poppa to come and have a family adventure to the snow at Big Bear Mountain... thanks to the Betraun's amazing cabin! We picked up Poppa on Wednesday and left right after school on Friday. The road trip each way had a little traffic, but that was the least on our minds for such a memorable trip. It previously snowed and stayed cold until we showed up to get lift tickets for the first time for the girls on Poppa's birthday. The day was amazing. The girls got a private lesson for the two of them and Poppa got to watch as they enjoyed every minute. Mommy and Daddy got a couple of runs in together and had just as much fun on the carpet ride watching the girls have fun the rest of the day. On the side, they also went on their first ski lift and truly enjoyed it, but the lines were much longer for the same run as the carpet ride.
We got to have French Silk pie to celebrate Poppa, then relax at the cabin. The next day we did some walking distance sledding, and the girls preferred snowboarding down the hill. We also made a pretty cool snow man together named Freezy. Poppa treated us to lunch at a great brewery before heading back to the cabin for a few cookie sales to cabins that aren't so close together and plenty of super bowl snacks for all of us. It was pretty relaxing to "watch" the super bowl with such an amazing background and company! Mommy and Daddy even took an extra day off of work since the girls were off on Monday to extend the great weekend.
Unfortunately the next Wednesday Poppa went back to Kenwood, we still miss him. Kaylee had a daisy meeting and Cienna had a minor fall on the beam at gymnastics that happen to knock of a brace from her tooth. We went through valentines at school and a the first talent show practice for the kindergartners as well.
We finally got a little time at home. Unfortunately we couldn't hit up the library like the girls were hoping due another holiday weekend, but we made up for it with a bike ride down the long beach bike path, home improvement (girls making their own creations as we painted patio furniture), more family run/biking on Sunday and time together preparing for the next week.
Mommy had the aside of dealing with the chance of jury duty which is fine so far, and we are lucky to have such great friends, as the Marshalls, to have had taken the girls for a magnificent 90 degree Monday off of school to a local pool while Mommy and Daddy had to work.
More excitement that week had to do with the Kindergarten 100th day of school and Cienna's re-scheduled Ortho appt. to fix her broken bracket and install new spring wires and upgraded head gear. The month ended with the excitement of gathering the two large girl scout troops for costume ready talent show pictures. It made them all more excited to preform.
Cienna turned Mommy's favorite number. The reason it is Mommy's favorite number is because she decided what her favorite number would be when she was 8. We are still in denial. She was a trooper when her brace fell off, although after getting it fixed it was evident that the tooth had moved before we could get an appointment, so it wasn't easy to ease it back into place. Pretty sure Cienna's biggest accomplishment according to her was being asked to advance to the next level of gymnastics team. She now picks snowboarding as one of her favorite things to do. This month has been great with learning new subjects and she is also learning about unit of measure which she is used growing up around this house. Lastly she got to see the first final product of her rock tumbler experience.
Kaylee also went to the next level of gymnastics... the youngest one at her level again. Her favorite thing this month has been selling cookies. She is for sure the salesman of the two. Even asking people in random situations if they want cookies! She has come to life every moment practicing musical shows all day long. She has a "love show" for kindergarten, along with the kinder and Daisy talent show on the way. She has stated how much she wants to be on stage. She was the only one to finish her 100 word page in class during the initial time for the 100'th day of school. She's still reading like a champ which only gets her more interested in reading... it's a snow ball effect : )
Both girls agree with Mommy and Daddy that we miss Poppa and were so glad to get to celebrate his birthday in the snow.. especially since their favorite activity when we were there beside hanging out with Poppa was eating snow!
Click on image to see.. not as many pictures this month.
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