This week we had a fun outing to make a surprise gift for Grandma Beilstein’s 70th birthday! Finn and I met up with the Bethune’s and made a hand print platter. Each of the cousins picked their own flower color and the stems each have the number of leaves that represents each kids age.  Then on the back they each did a thumbprint animal and wrote their own names.  Griffin was given his class Tony the Tiger for the weekend too. We had a far more relaxing time with Tony compared to his visit in the fall. We adventured to Costco and had lots of snuggles at home. Oh, and we made sure we kept him away from Brutus! One day I snapped some house photos complete with the dogs as props. Finn was having fun putting party hats on Lily and Brutus. Lily still wasn’t feeling very well yet, she hasn’t yet gotten her full appetite back yet and her eyes just don’t look like her normal self.  She was getting in some snuggles with me on the couch and didn’t really care much for partying 🙁 In getting ready for our upcoming trip to Florida we brought up a couple of air mattresses from our basement and blew them up to make sure they were good to go. Finn liked testing them out. Griffin really enjoys artwork both at home during the day with Debbie or at school. He makes some really creative projects! And here we are with a pre-Valentine’s treat at Starbucks. A tasty chocolate cake-pop. The next phase of our bedroom move-arounds happened this weekend when Grandma and Grandpa Armstrong came to pickup the king bed out of our guest room, which we are converting to Chestnut’s nursery.  It was a lot of moving heavy stuffs and Finn got in to help where he could, going around and getting his appropriate tools!