Happy Valentine's Day

For the beautiful Mrs K on Valentine's Day:  Roses, only not the kind that wither after a few days.  Love you!

Hanna is closing in on 12 years old

 Hanna turns 12 in a few days, and as a special treat, we asked her to vacuum the living room!  Ok, not really.  But she is a very good housekeeper. 

 Like in past years, we got together with the Buck family to celebrate because cousin Max's birthday is within days of Hanna's.  And all the cousins get together and play stuff.

 Eli can have fun with anyone, anywhere, anytime.  Here, he just finished tormenting one of Max's friends.

 I took six or seven photos where Hanna's eyes were closed.  I just decided to go ahead and use this one.  Hey, nice coat!

 Deanna made sure her eyes were WIDE open for this one!

 Ah, finally a photo of Hanna with her eyes open!  And, I think Max's eyes are open, but it's hard to see with the abundance of hair.

Max had no trouble blowing his candles out.  Hanna tried multiple times.  Maybe they were trick candles?  Happy birthday kids.

Ice Skating with a BFF

Eli is always bored and looking for fun when his older siblings are not around.  Thus, he called his BFF Sydney to go ice skating with us at Webster.

Sydney and Eli were chomping at the bit to get onto the ice.  In the meantime, we watched the Zamboni machine.

With his walker...er...ice walker in hand, eli blasted around the rink.  He was doing quite well.

I was standing next to the glass and this came up.

The beautiful Mrs K was tearing the ice up.  Here she was helping Sydney with her...er...ice walker.

The rink became rather crowded and the ice walkers became quite the rage.  If you didn't keep your eye on your ice walker, it would be gone.

I have no idea what Eli is doing here.  Can you tell he's wearing Tyson's gloves?  We left soon after this because the kids were so darn tired.  Apparently it's hard to skate around with those walkers.