Happy birthday!

I'm so excited that Mike suggested that I write this blog entry. I almost feel like a guest blogger here, since Mike has been the one who has written most of the recent blog posts (and I always love reading his posts).  So you get to hear about the whole month of February from my perspective.

I've always really liked February because my birthday's in February.  So imagine how excited I was when I married Mike and his birthday is also in February.  It is pretty fantastic.  Side note:  In case you were wondering, I'm nine days older than he is, which I totally love.  I always tell him that being older also makes me wiser.

My boys pulled through, like they do every year, and made my birthday very special.  First, since Mike had to be to work really early, K-Man and Bear decided that we should head to the grocery story first thing in the morning to buy some breakfast donuts.  We got to Safeway and they hopped into their "car" and "drove" me right to the donut aisle.  *I know, it doesn't really look like we're on the donut aisle, but I swear that's the donut case shining behind the cart!  :)

As we were walking out to our car after purchasing our donuts, I got my next birthday present... It was starting to snow!  I LOVE the snow, and since we live on the Oregon Coast, we don't usually get very much snow, which kind of makes me sad.  But, apparently Mother Nature was excited about my birthday, too, and wanted to hook me up.  So it snowed.  And snowed. And just kept snowing!

Our back yard looked like this... I felt like I was back in Idaho or Colorado:

And two days later, our street still looked like this:

Here are some gratuitous fun-in-the-snow pictures for you:

And even though the snow delayed my extra-special birthday dinner that Mike had so carefully planned, we were able to have it the following week, which happened to coincide with Mike's birthday AND Valentine's Day, so it all worked out pretty well.  He took me to dinner at EVOO, which is a cooking school in Cannon Beach and it was so much fun! Here's a picture of the massive desserts we had (after eating three entrees apiece!!--Hey it was our birthdays, right?)

And one last birthday picture for you.  The boys kindly helping me blow out the candles on my cake.

I hope you've all had as wonderful a February as we have!  Coming soon: a post on our Valentine's Day love-fest!

Update

It feels like time is flying by.  Nothing too exciting has happened lately, but life continues to be awesome.  Our kids are the most adorable little guys on the planet.  Yesterday we were at a church activity and K-man impressed everyone by going around and personally saying hi to everyone and giving them a hug.  He's such a friendly guy.  Bear was a lot of fun too... he's picking up on some charming social skills from his older brother.

Last weekend we had a fun movie night and popped some popcorn and watched Despicable Me 2, which was a lot of fun.  Also, the other day Amy found K in our closet wearing a pair of my dress shoes.  He then informed Amy that he needed to go to his work.  Ha ha.  Some other fun pictures that we have are from Bear's recent obsession with taking photos.  He got a hold of Amy's phone and took some selfies, which actually turned out pretty good.

One fun thing that the kids have been up to is running around in circles.  They love listening to the first song from the movie Brave while running in a big circle around in our house.  Sometimes Amy and I get in on the action and run with them too.  It's a blast.  You can check out the video at the end for a glimpse of the fun times.

Amy and I both have our birthdays coming up soon, and K about can't contain his excitement.  He wants to celebrate (and open gifts) every day.  I expect that we'll have some fun Bday photos soon, so stay tuned for those!