What February Looked Like

 In Feb, I organized a service project with the eight
Stake Presidents' wives in our coordinating council.
We met in Salisbury and worked on plastic bag sleeping
mats together. It was so fun to meet all of them and get
to know them a little bit.

I didn't get any pics of us together,

but here is the room, ready for working and visiting! :)

Caroline and Sabrina have started 

learning some acro yoga moves.

Caroline got showered with awards at

the JMS 2nd quarter awards ceremony:

A Honor Roll

Excellence in Social Studies

Outstanding Achievement in Science

Daffodils!

I love the way they burst up through the 

ground when you think it might still be 

winter, but it gives me hope for spring.

More aerial silks pics

We're looking at different charter schools for Caroline

to attend next year. We toured Phoenix Academy with

Piper and Angie and stopped at the cutest little bakery afterward.

For YW one night, we heart-attacked some 

of the YW that we hadn't seen in a while

so they would know that we missed them.

The girls had a lot of fun making the hearts beforehand.

The cutest valentine's cards from Grandma Sweat!

Sometimes I randomly send Caroline pics of the guinea

pigs in the middle of the day.

On our double date with the Yamniks,

we went out to dinner at Jason's Deli.

We hadn't been there in forever and it was really good.

I ordered a stuffed baked potato.

Look at how big that thing is!

It's like sputnik!

We called it The Football.

Crazy.

Valentine's Dinner at home

Family Super Bowl Party!

Some of our tasty snacks.

Whit did a good job making our charcuterie board. :)

Bumble and Scoot

We had them predict the winner of the Super Bowl.

Both piggies picked the Rams.

And they were right!

Woo hoo!

WARNING: Graphic post-surgery pics ahead

Andrew had his two-week post-surgery 

appointment to get his cast off.

We finally got to see his leg.

He had a bunch of stitches on his calf.

We didn't realize they also operate on his calf

muscle to help prevent this achilles problem in the future.

And then a whole SLEW of stitches on the

back of his ankle. Sheesh!

The doctor was really happy with how the recovery is going so far.

They put him in a walking boot and he's supposed

to slowly start putting weight on it,

letting pain be his guide.

Stretching.

Climbing

YW activity

Care Bear was also chosen as a Student of the Quarter at school.

Woo hoo!

And Whit got the official notification that

she got her full-tuition scholarship to Dixie

(soon to be Utah Tech University).

St. George, here she comes!

Icy trees

There's a popular word game online right now called Wordle.

Grandma Sweat introduced us to it and all of us enjoy it.

For our activity for FHE one night, Whit had us to

our own home-made version of Wordle. You get up to

six tries to guess a five-letter word.

They guess mine in 3.

And Drew's in 3.

 

It took us 5 to guess Care Bear's.

And 4 to guess Whit's.

So fun!

We had a ward talent show.

It was so much fun!

Kristen Skidmore was in charge of the program

and decorations and she did a fantastic job.

I love how fancy it looked!

Caroline had originally signed up to unicycle,

the talent show got snowed out TWICE and she

ended up changing her mind.

Whitney had to work that night.

I played the piano on a song I hadn't really practiced.

There were some really fun acts!

Sister Dudley invited the YW out to her family 

farm on a Saturday in Feb.

Two of their goats had just had babies

and we got to meet them.

Oh my gosh!

They were SO SO SO cute.

I loved hanging out with them.

Sunset

My peace lily bloomed!

Hooray!

We've had this plant since Grandpa Ranquist died.

I can't remember for sure what year that was,

but I know it was before we moved into this house in 2007.

Wow!

That plant is older than Caroline!

An example of what Wordle looks like.

Yellow guesses are in the word, but 

in a different spot. Greens are thee right

letter in the right spot.

On the lyra

Mermaid

Climbing

Andrew and I played LOTS of Wingspan

during his recovery. He was out of work for 10 days,

but his pain was very manageable, so we took

full of advantage of our time together. :)

We're bird nerds!

For those first two weeks, he couldn't put ANY weight on his right foot. 

Upstairs he would use a walker or just crawl around.

When he was downstairs, he could use this little

knee scooter that Jen Hall let him borrow.

Weeeee!