Beach Days

Justin had a pretty relaxed rotation during the month of February so we made the  most of his days off and headed to the beach!  We have to soak up this sun as much as we can!

The seagulls have been really bad every time we go so we hired our own personal bird chaser

One outing Taija insisted on bringing her 'surf board'

Mika's 1st time in the water

Mika Mookers

My Mika Mookers is 11 months old - where has the time gone?!  Mika is such a good baby - very content as long as an adult presence is in the room.   She loves being around Taija and Luke!  Mika has started taking steps, but not quite ready to walk.  She still sleeps 9-10 hours a night with a few naps during the day.  She has 6 teeth now and still teething - although we have noticed she as quite the under-bite.  I guess we know that our future earnings will be paying for expensive dental work!

 Loves to help mommy with the endless piles of laundry!

 Just chillin in the car

Valentines Day

After noticing that so many people have such awesome Valentines Day traditions I stole some of them to make them my own!  On Valentines Day we celebrate by spending the evening as a family...with an AWESOME dinner!  This year with Tina's help we had steak shish-kabobs that were so yummy, corn on the cob (my kids seriously LOVE their corn), red jello, and bread.  And the best part was the dessert!  I made Molton Lava Cakes - they didn't turn out exactly how I had wanted, but were still delicious.  Holidays are so much FUN with little ones around and I look forward to many more holidays as a Mom!

Everglade Explorers

One of Pa's favorite things to do when he comes to Florida is go on adventures.  On one outing he and Taija found some pretty cool places out on the Everglades!  Complete with a boat ride through the swamp and spotting of alligators.  While he was here they decided to take Justin and Luke out on their adventure.

If that wasn't enough adventure they also went on an airboat tour of the swampy Everglades!

 Complete with AMAZING earmuffs!

Martin County Fair

While Pa and Grammy were here Taija wanted to take Pa on a ferris wheel for his birthday.  Although she kept asking to go to New York and the ferris wheel there, we figured for time and budget reasons we would stick closer to home.  I researched a bit and found the Martin County Fair would be here the same time as Pa!  It was a HIT!  The kids (and Pa) LOVED all of the rides!  Luke and Taija were the perfect ages and heights to ride all of the kiddie rides by themselves.  Luke was literally at the required height! YAY!

Pa even let me play one of the all-time best fair games...Balloon Darts!  It was great!  We won an interesting Bob Marley Winnie the Pooh!  And of course we indulged in the food.  Hot dogs, french fries, pizza AND a funnel cake!  Such FUN memories!

Silliness with Pa

Pa and Grammy came to visit us for Pa's birthday!  His birthday isn't until the end of the month, but he decide to spend this past week with us!  The kids LOVED celebrating Pa's birthday ALL WEEK LONG!  First we played at the mall...Luke and Taija even tried the trampoline bungee thing!  To our surprise they both LOVED it!

Next stop was to pick up crafts from the craft store!

Taija LOVES doing crafts and while Luke's attention span isn't that long it works perfectly with Pa's!

Scooters

Justin and the kids LOVE to take the scooters to the park and ride ALL over.  South Florida is pretty awesome in that there are parks literally EVERYWHERE!  This park is a few blocks north of our house and has a cool little bridge and trail area.