February

I had to go to my camera to see what we did in February it is such a blur to me! The first week of February should have been my due date with William, so in honor of the date I've finally put up a picture of my little boy. Here's the picture of the picture - the little disk is what I was originally sent when I ordered a custom memorial necklace to wear, but I had specifically requested copper, which the maker did send to me, so I had this brass disk with Willam's name on it, and I found a frame that matched it and converted the "best" of my 4 lousy pictures to black and white. So here is my precious little boy, who is now perfect and beautiful in Heaven:


On the long weekend, our assembly hosted a fun weekend for young people and young families at our local rec center. It was a fun time of fellowship and recreation - skating, sledding, board games, etc. It was also Lorelei's birthday on Saturday, so we had a little celebration for her. Unfortunately I didn't take a single picture that weekend!

On the Monday of the long weekend, we butchered our steer and spent the following weekend (all day saturday, a couple hours sunday afternoon and a couple hours monday evening) cutting and wrapping and making burgers. I was quite happy with the amount of fat that he had on him, and the meat has turned out to be VERY nice! Here's a shot of some rib eye's just before I cooked them!

For Lorelei's birthday I made her a cute little nightgown:


We celebrated her birthday with our family the next weekend - Grandma made her a very cute cake!

I even attempted to french braid her hair for the first time!

She had fun playing with balloons with her two cousins while we cooked supper at Grandma's house.


Then of course there were some presents!

I think that's about it for February - I was working 3 days a week and that wore me out pretty badly...too much to do!