January:
Blizzards Blizzards and MORE BLIZZARDS!! We got hit hard this year with the snow.. In fact, the state of Missouri and city of Kansas City was declared a "state of emergency"- which meant shut down highways, roads, and most importantly NO SCHOOL!! So needless to say, January was a fun month for us filled with sledding, Sunday dessert/game nights, Super Bowl parties, and tamale making... We thoroughly enjoyed getting to spend extra time with Ty and took advantage of EVERY snow day we could! Living in cold climates actually does have some benefits!! Here are some pics of our January fun!!
My two good friends Chersti (in the middle) and Sara (on the right) and I went sledding.. well I should say, Chersti talked Sara and I into sledding the "Cleveland Hill" ..which is a huge, very steep hill at the chiropractic college our husbands go to. We decided the girls would go first and then we would switch and let the guys go.. they weren't too interested in taking their "before" pics though :P
Don't be fooled by the "excited" expression on my face... pure fear.. On the other side of that mound is a straight drop..
Sara and I were super apprehensive about going but Chersti showed no fear!! She owned those hills! When you get to the bottom of the hill you are going so fast and there are huge jumps that will throw you off the tube so you have bail by the "tuck and roll" technique (that Chersti so gracefully demonstrated for us) so you don't fly into the street or hit a pole and bruise your femur (like Ty did) or come down off of a jump and hurt your arm/wrist/shoulder (like Sara).. yep that's right, injuries on both the guys and the girls trip! It's just that steep and bumpy.. but SOOO much fun!! Thank goodness Sara's married to a great Chiropractor! And I'm pleased to report they have all fully recovered from all sledding injury's ;)
On another one of the snow days, the girls and I decided we were going to tackle tamales! It was about a 5 hour process just to put them together.. it took another 3hrs to cook them! It was really fun to hang out with the girls all day, but probably won't ever make them again! LOL
Sara put together a fun Super Bowl party! It was packed with food and lots of fun!
Oh and P.S. That's not a real cupcake Chloe's eating.. she kept putting this plastic cupcake top in her mouth and sucking on it like a pacifier! She had it with her the ENTIRE night! She would actually take out her pacifier and replace it with the cupcake top! It was really funny watching her crawl around every where with it. She a silly one!
*Special thanks to Sara for capturing all these great pics!!
FEBRUARY-MARCH:
February 1st was Ty's birthday. He had another snow day so he was able to sleep in while I made a BIG breakfast (his favorite meal of the day). I got a great recipe for biscuits and gravy and accompanied it with eggs, ham, cinnamon rolls and OJ. He was pretty excited. Later that day we had little birthday get together for him over at Sara's house. We had dinner and cake and decided we were gonna get all the kids to bed and then come back and play games since we knew school would be called out again the next day.. but as we were leaving Chloe started projectile vomiting ALL OVER ME!! Thank goodness I was holding her and it didn't get all over Sara's coach or floors.. but still.. it was pretty awful. Anyway.. that was the start of it all. February 1st. The vomiting only lasted until 4am the following morning but she wouldn't eat or drink anything for about 2days and she stopped having wet diapers so we had to take her in to get hydrated. Since then Chloe has been to the hospital 7times in the last month and a half. She went from the stomach flu, to an upper respiratory virus, to a "Virus" (they weren't quite sure what she had but it consisted of vomiting, diarrhea, and us force feeding apple juice and pedialyte to no avail) to an ear infection that turned into a blood infection (but don't worry- they thought at first she had a UTI so they sent us to the hospital and put in a catheter only to find out she didn't) and then trips back the hospital for iv antibiotics and more blood work.
Her immune system is shot at this point so if anyone even breaths on her wrong she picks something up.. last week it was croup.. this week, low grade fever and rubbing ears and mouth so we're thinking it's just teething. Which stinks too.. but we're just glad it's not hospital worthy!
The poor girl is totally traumatized by anyone who even looks like they could be a doctor or nurse! We are just praying that the warm weather brings better health and a stronger immune system!!
Chloe started crawling on Christmas Eve.. on the cruiseship! In this very spot! Such a little sweetie..
Classic. 
First day out at sea.. soaking in the beautiful sunny weather
Baby sis Blake and I soaking in some sun in Grand Cayman
hehehe.. laying out
Chloe and daddy
Chloe and Mommy