February was a wonderful month for our family. First, we are saddened by Junola’s passing and like all of you, our thoughts and prayers go to Brian at this time. We are certainly better people because of her.
Things seem to be going just fine with our baby. Elizabeth has been feeling great, a little fatigue here and there notwithstanding. We find out the gender the first week in March and could not be more excited!
Kadence unbelievably (at least to her parents) turned six this month and celebrated in grand fashion. We had six girls from the neighborhood over for a princess party, with games, cake, and some wonderful presents. We also celebrated as a family and then with our extended family at our monthly gathering (at Dad and Donna’s). She continues to read voraciously—at a near second-grade level. She also plays with friends often, dotes on Stockton, and loves kindergarten. What a sweetie!
Tayah still loves preschool and comes home to proudly show us her newly gleaned knowledge, as well as the various projects they do. She is doing an excellent job sounding out words and is really recognizing a lot of sight words. She also is a social butterfly, but actually seems to interact better with older kids (Kadence’s age) than those her own age. We love our Tayah!
Stockton is starting to exert a little more personality (aka persnicketiness), but all in all, it’s pretty tame for a two-year old. Most of the day, he is sweet, happy, and very loving. He always wants Mommy and Daddy’s attention. One fun story: after stake conference, he burst out crying—not because it was so long, but because we told him we didn’t have nursery that day!
Elizabeth received a new calling, teaching Primary and working with Activity Days. So far, so good. She went to a Relief Society meeting early in the month. She helped secure our Smith Family reunion locale once again, as well as did our Disneyland legwork.
It was a busy, busy month for me. Work continues to be wonderful. We hosted BYU—Hawaii’s president Steven Wheelwright at a Telefund devotional and we had a full audit/assessment of our Annual Giving office. My calling is very fulfilling—a full slate of stake conference meetings, two more ward conferences, touring all four of our stake’s buildings with the FM Group manager, and so forth. I love my writing gigs, although the Jazz had a rough go in Feb.
Other activities/events: ward sealings, joining the Cougar Club, a Valentine’s Day date for us (dinner and the Living Legends concert), going out to dinner, taking full advantage of Netflix, a high priests social.
Our big event was our annual trip to Disneyland. This time, we surprised the kids right after stake conference—they had no idea we were leaving within the hour for California. The looks on their faces were priceless, as was the whole week. We spent three days in the Happiest Place on Earth. We happened to be there on Feb 29, when the park was open from 6 am-6 am. We made it for 14 of those hours—not too shabby if you ask me! Another highlight was being there with Elizabeth’s parents, as well as her brother and his family—right after he returned from his tour in Afghanistan. The kids loved meeting many Disney friends and all the rides. We loved watching things through their eyes—something that is truly magical to us.
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