The Warpinski's: February 2013

Thursday, February 28

End of February picture wrapup

Love when she falls asleep cuddling her baby doll

He loves to pick on Spunky..thankfully Spunky is pretty tame

CHEEESE! At least it’s a real smile

Last play group at Christi’s house

post nap playtime

Decided to go out to A&W to eat..Max wanted his own table to sit at

Good morning Max!

he loves to drive his cars all around

Hanging out with friends on a snow day storytime

Doing puzzles with Great Grandma

Grandma and I realized she didn’t have any up to date pictures of her with my kids. You can see how much she loves him.

And the end of the month comes test bottles, so another evening spent I the barn. Max is getting way better and loves to play in the lime pile with his sister.

Sunday, February 24

Feb 24th: The Benefit

Sunday was the day of the benefit for Josh, to help raise funds to help us get by. Hiring on help for the whole summer along with all the travel really hurt us. Josh’s sister , Kara organized the whole event. We stayed out of the planning and just showed up to the event on the actual day. This was the least stress choice for us. Planning and large get together stress me out. I love to do them, but freak out if they don’t go as planned. This way I don’t know what went as planned or not planned.

It was held in Fennimore from 7am until 12pm .I wasn’t sure how the kids would do being up there that long, so Tori and Dylan stayed with them at our house until I came to pick them up. Josh and I were planning to be there at 7:30but due to chores we didn’t get up there until just before 8am. We got there and there was a good number of people there. I noticed that some of Bella’s classmates were there and playgroup friends, so I felt bad the kids weren’t there. So once I got done eating I left to go get them.

When I returned 30 mins later the place was busy. There was a lot of people there and I think a lot of people hung out for almost the whole thing. Bella took off as soon as she saw Aunt Olivia and Max only want Aunt Diane. Of course that was nice for me, but I would have to have my kids around me a bit more. Tori and I hung out a bit . We also checked out the silent auction. There were a lot of great items on it. So many of them I could have bid myself, but naturally I didn’t.

There was a great turn out over 400 tickets were sold for breakfast. I think they actually ran out of food. The kids had a great time playing and running around. Josh was able to visit with a lot of people and seemed to enjoy himself. I’ll admit I was a bit on the shyer side and stick to those who knew. The auction actually lasted until 12:30pm and it was too funny the last 30 mins of people watching their bids and making sure they would win. There was so much so it was hard not to find something to win.

We stayed after it was over to visit and what not before we loaded up to head home. Thanks to all those who came out and helped out. Thanks Kara for organizing it . Thanks to those who weren’t able to attend but send in donation. Thanks to those who donated items and who bid on them.

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Once we got home, Max went down for a nap, Bella a rest and Josh tried to rest too. When it came chore time it was just too nice to stay insides, so we all headed outside. The kids had fun in the mud and snow. I tried to use the wagon in the barn, but Max is a stinker and knows all the fun places to go on his own, so yeah that didn’t work at all. But we had a lots of fun outside

wagon rides.. totally happening more often now

totally put them to work young these days

this is the snowball that Uncle Jeremy made for Bella, that she threw at me, then threw at her daddy, who threw it back at her

always something new to climb on

This is Merry Christmas bird..who didn’t learn from bambi that running on the ice was not a good idea.

On top of the world

Saturday, February 23

Feb 23rd : Vacation, coming home and girls night out

Saturday morning, Everyone woke up a bit more rested then the night before. We couldn’t really figure out what to do. We had some things we wanted to do, check out wasn’t until noon. We decided to eat whatever we could find in the hotel room and go to the pool at 8am when it opened. The pool was pretty dead until 8:30 and then it got busy. We stayed until 9 before headed back to the room to pack. Gave the kids baths' and packed up. Decided to just head to Hy-Vee before leaving town. Josh wasn’t feeling the greatest, he still forgets that his tummy can’t hand big changes…ei skipping meals, filling up on coffee and sweets. So he stayed in the car with the kids while I shopped, before we headed home.

Once home, it was unload and put away. Josh rested, the kids ate lunch and then rested, while I worked. I did mange to get eerything put away and laundry started. GO Me!

Tori and Dylan arrived around 3:30pm and hung out with us until it was time to go to church. After church, we did a swap, Josh got all three kids while Tori and I headed to Platteville for Girls night. One of my very dear friends is moving to Texas..happy for her since she is moving back to family but sad to see her go from us. So we had a girls night out as a going way party. It was an awesome time. We had old friends and new friends there. So many happy memories with these gals!

Tori and I stayed out later than I had planned, since I knew we needed to be up early the next day, but oh well.. goodtimes can’t be limited by a clock.

We love this snack mix and I can’t remember where I found it.

She loves water.. come on swimming season

Family pictures are hard in a waterpark.. but I think I did pretty good.

Just me and my girl.

she was upset that we had to leave.

only a matter of minutes before my once clean living room was covered in “medical” stuff. Mimi needed a check up and Max must have been Dr. Bella’s nurse