February Stuff

February was filled with hockey. Ryker's team had a fundraising night at the Wild and Rock and Jens wanted to go too. Ryker had fun selling raffle tickets, we had fun eating pretzels and nachos.

PTAC Valentine cookies work group was definitely work. DeA was there for about nine hours, I was there for just under six. Megan and Rissa were there for like forever.

Jens was a good little trooper, too.

Luca came to hang out, he enjoyed the attention.

Rock was able to acquire his permit and now is out learning driver. He does pretty well, but he might talk back to his Mom a little too much.

Ryker played a game Thursday, and then had a tournament Saturday and Monday. That's a lot of hockey for that kid.

Because his Saturday game was early, we stayed in Wenatchee Friday night. The kids wanted Olive Garden, which worked well because we could grab baby Michael who was there with his parents.

At times this season Ryker has kind of glided through games, but his tourney was not like that. He skated hard and tried to be physical.

He has been obsessed with getting a phone for the past two months. Every time I ride in the car with him, tuck him in at night, or whenever we are alone he lays out his argument for a phone. He finally got one for his birthday and loves that thing more than the sugar gliders, me, and Leo puppy combined.

 

Post Trip Recovery

Look, the trip to Mexico was great, even with all the crappy border patrol nonsense and the truck trying to die on us. Thanks to Dad driving to North Bend and AAA, we were able to get home and get the alternator cable fixed. Ryker celebrated by making pizza for Gpa Dave.

After dinner we enjoyed a game of Clue.

Baseball season is quickly approaching, so Carter and Rock tried to have live BP in the church gym. I felt like there should have been an adult around to stop this, but unfortunately I was the closest thing.

I did tell them that having a catcher without gear might be a problem.

Leo continues to camp out in the car when he thinks he is about to be left behind. He'll sit in there like this for hours.

We all went to La Brisa to celebrate Grandma Arlene's birthday. Luca celebrated by pounding a ton of chips.

I am ready to spring, but it is still very much winter here.

Leo gets confused when the boys play chess at the table because he thinks they are eating food.

Rock had a brief birthday party, after mutual. We will make him dinner later when life isn't crazy

Hockey is still going, Ryker had one of his best games of the season. He even tried to check a guy into the boards.

A Trip to Mexico

It's important to remind DeA why she married me, and it's easier to do that while she's sitting on a beach in warm sunshine. We left bright and early on Friday morning. DeA was so proud of herself for waking up easily at 3:30am.

She passed out almost immediately after the previous picture. I'm not sure that she even moved her head before she started to snore softly.

She had a very peaceful flight.

It left her very chipper and happy on the van ride to the resort.

Obviously it was nice and relaxing to walk into a room with a beach view.

We walked into Bucerias for dinner and got to witness a fine moment of Mexican ingenuity. It's amazing how much gets done when you don't have to worry about silly things like worker and bystander safety.

It was a pretty great way to start the trip.

We hit the buffet breakfast the first morning. She loves her papaya and I knocked out a few plates of chilaquiles and beans. Unfortunately, they increased the price of the buffet since we were here two years ago. It seems like a jump from 16/person to 45!!!/person is a little excessive and we did not eat there again.

DeA started to feel some swelling in her eyelid, so we spent some time finding totally legal Mexican pharmaceutical grade anti-inflammatories that knocked that swelling right down.

It might seem silly, but I like visiting church on our vacations. The concha is from the deli right before we got into the taxi. The taxi was too clean to eat in, so I did the right think and waited until church.

A Spanish sacrament meeting made it hard on DeA to stay awake.

The warm sunshine was exactly what she was craving after a long, cold, miserable winter.

And beach nachos, obviously she craved those too.

We found a hidden little jazz cafe that DeA really loved because it felt clean.

We met a little friend while chilling on the beach.

DeA wasn't a big fan of the restaurant the next night because it didn't feel so clean. The mole was good though.

We worked out most days, the view was pretty great.

It took us a couple of tries to get the final selfie just right.

DeA deleted most of our attempts.

Blurry Basketball and Hockey Pics

DeA was starting to get a little overwhelmed with Ryker's growing clutter kitchen stuff. She ordered him a little rolling cart to keep his stuff.

Jens is loving basketball. She is starting to get aggressive and confident and it is awesome to watch

She has had so much fun and is loving it.

Rissa and Javi were going to take their kids to a Wild game, so we joined in and invited the Trumans from the ward.

Leo wasn't a big fan of the yelling. He likes to be the one that yells, not everyone else.

The girls had fun walking the concourse during intermissions.

They didn't like waiting in line, but they loved the cotton candy and popcorn.

We stopped "quickly" at WinCo where Ryker learned about their bulk food section. We ended up spending way too much time there.

Luca ended up fine after knocking out his tooth. He still eats like a champ.