February Summary

I'm trying to get caught up, so here is a summary of February.  

Violet was copying her Daddy one day.  It was super cute.

Jorgen made this birdfeeder at Musikgarten:

Dan had a birthday - last year of his thirties!

We went to see the Lego Movie - and Violet wouldn't sit through it.  So we ran through the halls.

Andrew had a Valentine's party at school.  I helped with cookie decorating.  They also had a contest to see who could get an Oreo from their forehead to their mouth without using their hands.

Bethany and Andrew made their Valentines, and Jorgen used Angry Bird valentines from the store.

Violet had her first haircut.  I am not good at cutting hair, and she is wiggly, but it turned out okay.

Andrew earned his Bear award at Pack Meeting.

We also had Federation Piano Festival, and a Piano Recital, but I don't have any pictures of those.  It was a busy month!

Spelling Bee

Jan 16 - Andrew won his class spelling bee, so he got to participate in the school spelling bee.  He ended up placing 5th!  He did a great job!

Violet's Cast

Jan 13 - The day after we got home from Disneyland, I had to take Violet in first thing to get her cast.  She screamed through the whole thing!  But not as much as she screamed when she got it off 2 weeks later :)  

Here she is a few weeks later with no cast:  She healed pretty fast!

Family Vacation Day 7 - Last day at Disneyland

Friday, January 10 - This was our last day at Disneyland.  We all wore our Disney shirts and hats for a picture out front.  I love this picture :)  The morning started out great.  The park was pretty empty, and lines were short.  We went on Pirates & Indiana Jones, then rode the train over to Toontown.  

At Mickey's House - Violet was asleep

Winnie the Pooh ride

They chowed down this cotton candy in about 30 seconds flat.

 Around the time we went to Splash Mountain, the park suddenly got crazy crowded!  I guess all the locals with season passes decided to come Friday afternoon.  It was just packed.  Wall-to-wall people everywhere.  It was so crazy.  We almost lost Jorgen at one point, it was kind of scary.  So we didn't get to do as many rides in the afternoon.

Splash Mountain.

Jungle Cruise

Mark Twain's Steamboat

Time for a nap - poor girl got worn out

We let each kid pick one toy or souvenir.  Andrew wanted to make his own light saber. 

It turned out pretty cool!

The fireworks were amazing!  We were actually going to try to get out of the park before the fireworks, because the kids were all so grumpy and we were just done.  But we got stuck in the crowd and couldn't move.  So we stayed, and we are glad we did.  The fireworks show was just incredible.  Somehow we managed to be right in the middle, so there were fireworks going off all around us.  It was a much bigger show that the Christmas fireworks we remembered from 3 years ago.  We were glad we accidentally stayed long enough to see them.  Except that afterwards was a complete nightmare trying to get out of the park without losing anyone.  The only ride we weren't able to go on that we kind of wanted to was Space Mountain.  The line was a 90 minute wait, and the Fast Passes were gone by the time we tried to get some.  We pretty much got to do everything else that we wanted to.

So, even with all our little mishaps, we still had a great time!  Of course the kids want to go back again.  We have to let our bank account recover first.  We decided we won't go again until Violet is tall enough to ride almost all the rides, so maybe when she is 5 or 6.

We left the next morning, which was Saturday, and drove to Cedar City.  The motel we stayed at was pretty run-down, but it was cheap and had enough beds, so good enough.  We were all so tired we slept pretty well anyway.  We drove the rest of the way home Sunday.  I only took one picture on the drive home, Violet with her baby and her new Mickey Mouse doll.  Her best buddies!