February

Anthony and I both noticed this bucket on the side of the road while we were driving somewhere and after a few minutes of silence I said, "Did you see that bucket?" Anthony immediately said, "Yeah! It looked like a good one. Wanna go back for it?" So we turned around and picked it up. Treasure!

James and his school basketball team. He loves playing basketball, hates wearing basketball shoes. Story of his life!

The baby snake is growing!

James was cracking me up during this basketball game. The boy he was assigned to cover is much taller than him, so when James would put his arms out to the side to try to block him, the boy would just put his hands straight up in the air. James didn't really notice that he wasn't blocking him at all :)

James gets super focused when he gets the ball. He wants to do everything right and doesn't want to make a wrong move, so sometimes he has the ball for a long time, just thinking and thinking what to do with it. When he makes a basket we always goes crazy, but he barely makes a different face and plays it all cool.

It was a chilly night but we wanted ice cream, so we went to an ice cream place on beachside that has fire pits. Best of both worlds!

James decided to dig a big hole and see if he could hit water. I don't know how he got this deep without getting stuck!

We have one juvenile turkey that hatched with a twisted leg that has definitely imprinted on humans. He comes right up to you when we go out there while all the other young turkeys run away! James named him Lucky and likes to pick him up and carry him around. Because of his twisted leg, he walks around in circles a lot so I don't think he minds being carried.

Sleepy boy:

Walk-a-thon day at school:

Vegan caterers called The Vegetable Butchers came to the school to do a presentation on yummy ways to cook vegetables or substitute veggies for other things. It was really interesting and Rett loved their no-meat barbeque sandwiches.

Anthony was able to be off on President's Day since he was on-call the weekend before so we all had a day at home together. We decided to check out a trail by the river we hadn't tried before.

After just a few minutes of walking, Rett spotted this baby gopher tortoise on the trail. He was so excited to have spotted it first! He spent the rest of the walk looking for something else to find before everyone else did.

A bald eagle! Every single time we go to the Canaveral Seashore we see bald eagles. So awesome!

The boys fell asleep in our bed and were so stinkin' cute snuggling together. I love it when they aren't fighting!

More from our trip to Canaveral Seashore. This big guy was at the visitor center:

Later in the day we decided to try crabbing. We were not successful, the crabs were too smart for us!

Since we didn't catch any crabs, we decided to go buy some crabs from a local seafood supply. On the way home we checked out a small citrus farm we drive by all the time, but have never gone to. The owner gave us an awesome tour of their tiny operation and let the boys pick some oranges from the trees.

After years and years of thinking I could never be a runner, I decided to give it a try. It was the only exercise that I thought I could fit into my schedule since I don't have to go to the gym or get childcare to do it (I usually go around our neighborhood after Anthony gets home).  I started before Christmas, and now I run all the time. I even ran a 5K and beat my 5K time from when I was 24 and working out all the time!! It has really helped me destress and have some alone time to listen to my music or my podcasts.

Since Anthony is the high councilman over primary, he sometimes has to go to Deland to attend their presidency meetings. They had one on a Saturday morning and he was disappointed that he would miss the morning with us, so we tagged along! I read a book while the boys played, and at one point I glanced over and noticed that Rett had church shoes on. He said he put them on when I told him we were going to a church building (although he didn't put on church clothing, so I guess he wasn't worried all of him being dressed up).

James's shoes had so many holes in them, it was finally time to force him to get a new pair. I've been buying the exact same shoes for him on ebay or wherever I can find them, but after 3 years I finally hit a wall and couldn't find them anywhere. He is so difficult to find shoes for, we decided to go to the nearest Crocs store and let him try on every single different version of crocs that they have. He usually wants some kind of crocs, but most shoe stores only have one or two to choose from and he never likes them. There was a Crocs Outlet in Daytona, so we spent a solid 45 minutes trying on shoes and finally left with two pairs! A miracle!

The outlets have a tiny toy store so we had to check that out too. They had a fortune teller sorting hat, so each boy got their fortune told. They were mesmerized.

Rett is still loving karate! This is a video of one of his favorite drills called "crazy horse". It is supposed to teach them how to grab and hang on to someone while sparring.


Rett earned his first yellow stripe! Here he is with all of his Senseis. Good job Rett!