The Blanch Herd: February 2016

Whew, February! For being such a short month (albeit with an extra day this year), we sure jammed a lot of photo-taking into it. (And this doesn't even include the pics that got their own posts!) I'll spare you too many words up here and let you get right to the meat of the matter:

2.1.16
(naptime on mom's lap)

2.1.16
(not my most productive mid-day hour, but kinda nice to read with
a sleeping babe on my lap)
(book: Grandma Gatewood's Walk - loved it!)

2.2.16
(verrry chilly out there, but the sky was so, so
blue and the shadows in our backyard looked cool)

2.3.16
(cookie dough full of goodness)

2.3.16
(giant oatmeal chocolate chip cookies (with m&m's and pecans
because, why not?) for the win!)

2.3.16
(she usually asks for "crackers and raisins" for
her bedtime snack; tonight it was grapefruit.)

2.3.16
(she loves the stuff! and I'm so glad it has been
on sale - 5 for $1! - all winter at our little valley
market)

2.4.16
(Thursdays are soup days, and if I'm really lucky, bread days too)

2.5.16

2.5.16
(a lovely little lap cushion)

2.5.16

2.5.16
(this smile kills me!)

2.5.16

bonus video!

grunting to sleep

2.5.16
(this is a pretty regular occurrence around these parts)

2.5.16
(all the heart eyes emoji!)

2.5.16
(love his sleeping little self)

2.8.16
(Grandpa helping Cal with her special "temple shoes" before
we went through for our tour)

2.8.16
(Grandma Gallagher, Kim, Kim, Sam, Cal, and Paul waiting for
the open house tour of the Provo City Center Temple)

2.8.16
(after our tour - I'm so glad we got to tag along with Paul and Kim
and Grandma!)

2.8.16
(Lunch at Mimi's after the temple)

2.9.16
(finally getting to make our heart shaped cookies
because it's February!)

2.9.16
(she lives for the cookie cutters)

2.9.16
(I live for the cookies - pretty much the reason I love Valentine's
Day)

2.9.16
(heart cookies + Daniel Tiger = one tiger-tastic
Valentines treat for our Music Makers friends)

2.9.16
(I'm pretty proud of my graphic design skillz
in whipping up those little numbers - ha!)

2.10.16
(for a week or so we were getting freezing fog
almost every day)

2.10.16
(my pics don't do the beauty of it justice)

2.10.16

2.10.16
(by afternoon it would be sunny and warm enough
to make all the frost melt off the branches and
fall to the ground like snow - we called it
"frosting")

2.10.16
(also, icicles!)

2.10.16
(yes, this is the same girl who last year was
petrified by the thought of a sticker touching her!)

2.10.16
(what a joy!)

2.10.16

2.10.16
(what a soggy face!)

2.10.16
(fruit salad a la my mom)

2.10.16
(paired perfectly with our creamed tuna and biscuits
dinner - I called it a "Peggy Elwood meal, circa
1998" - delicious, of course.)
(also, those biscuits were the tallest, butteriest,
fluffiest biscuits I've ever made!)