Twenty-Twenty {For The Record}: February

Here we go with February! (I gotta get a move on if I'm gonna catch up!) 

I LOVED looking through February's pictures! Looking back, it was such a fun month! I love February because the January/post-Christmas blues are gone, we have settled back into our routine, and everyone has essentially already broken their New Years resolutions, so I don't feel the pressure to CONQUER THE WORLD in the New Year anymore. (Seriously, social media in January just kills me.)

We kicked off February with our very first wedding here in the Wells household. I'm not sure where Greyson got inspired to play "wedding", but he picked out some "fancy clothes" for ALL of us and I officiated in "the pretty room". (Clearly, Greyson did not pick out fancy shoes for me.) Manny was the witness and there was even dancing and a reception afterwards, that consisted of squeezables and goldfish. 

The wedding made Greyson INSIST that he needed his own blazer (instead of wearing his dad's) so we headed to the consignment shop and hit the jackpot. Taylor picked out a princess dress and these two were just cute as buttons.

Valentine's Day followed shortly after and Greyson had the sweetest little party at school and we went to Playstreet afterwards with friends. 

Taylor made the cutest little construction worker 

In the most romantic turn of events, Jeremie actually had a business trip to LAS VEGAS during Valentine's Day. Honestly, after 11 year of marriage, I was fine with it. Until he started texting me the "company events" he had to attend in the evening, like AN AEROSMITH CONCERT. And then a little while later he text me saying: "Have you ever heard of a group name Lady Antebellum?"

. He made up for it by sending flowers and Tiff's Treats.

Nothing like a warm cookie delivered to your door.

We did Valentine's crafts and then the kids passed out from sugar coma.

After bedtime, I sat down to eat some more cookies in peace and decided to re-heat them on my cute little Valentine's plates. 

Unfortunately, those shiny little sliver hearts are foil material. So you can just imagine what happened after 30 seconds in the microwave. You wanna see a mama move??? I honestly wasn't so panicked about the house catching on fire as I was loosing the last Snickerdoodles. But thankfully, they survived. And the house didn't burn down. 

We also made a fun trip to the Dallas World Aquarium with the Swope crew. (Not pictured is one sweet little baby girl that is now added to the Swope crew!)

Baby Shark...

In another twist of fate, I landed a ticket to the most amazing event, the IF GATHERING, which is a Christian conference that was created by a local Dallas woman, Jennie Allen. The lineup was some of my favorites like Beth Moore, Ruth Chou Simons, Ann Voskamp, etc. It was absolutely incredible. Jeremie happened to be taking Greyson to the MS Rodeo with his family that weekend, so Lil T got to hang with a sitter while I worshipped....

And ate some HOME COOKIN' by myself during lunch break. 

Meanwhile, Greyson was clearly living his best Rodeo life...

The Dixie National Rodeo was a tradition for Jeremie's family for years, so this year, they revived it!

Jeremie's BIG BIRTHDAY (the one that comes after THIRTY-NINE) was up next and we had a great time celebrating him all week! We opened gifts, had cake, and went to the Arboretum. 

Greyson loved the inflatable walker....Jeremie...not so much...

The kids love "helping" open presents

When we returned from the Arboretum, I knew Jeremie's business partner had a "surprise" for him, which was a really fun/huge Happy Birthday yard sign...

But little did I know the rest of the surprise until this guy showed up at our door a few minutes later...

A REAL LIVE singing telegram. I've never experienced one before but this guy was hilarious. He started out signing "Who Let the Dawgs Out", and then just kept going...it was awesome. 

The rest of Jeremie's gift was a trip to Big Cedar Resort in Branson, MO, which actually fell in March...so that's for next time! 

Here's the rest of our random shenanigans in February:

These themed box stickers were so much fun!

These two were curled up watching a movie together and they just looked so big and little at the same time! Sweet sweet...

Boys lunch date : ) 

Donuts with Dad at school. Jeremie's little princess...

Texas Baby

Greyson's favorite park: The "tank" park (He's up there, but you can't see him..because he's in camoflauge)

Greyson created his own Elsa outfit and stuck that hat on poor Taylor to be Olaf : ) 

Taylor representing Daddy's company

And apparently during February...(I put a quick stop to this) the kids were OBSESSED with playing in my bathroom. 

And that's February! We all know what March brought....DUN DUN DUN... So THANK YOU, FEBRUARY. 

Twenty-Twenty {For the Record}: January

Well, here we are on the cusp of a NEW YEAR. And even though I realize that this DUMPSTER FIRE will not end at the stroke of midnight on December 31st, I for one, cannot wait to EXIT STAGE LEFT this year that we call 2020. I have so many thoughts that I cannot even wrap them into words, but hopefully I can at some point. 

In the meantime, I REFUSE to let the most memorable year get away from me again without recording some of it. I love documenting our lives here, (it's mainly for my own benefit, but I love sharing), and I have let busy-ness and distraction get in the way for almost 2 years now.  

So I'm gonna REACH back to January and try to go month by month before we ring in the new year. 

There's nothing like the last minute, right?

I'm looking at January and just LAUGHING at how "cute" the new year seemed. How innocent we were about what was coming for us in a matter of weeks. The normal things we were doing....

Greyson had an "alphabet parade" at school...and of the dozens of darling costumes he has, he made me print out a paper mask of "Jango Fett" from Star Wars...

Taylor was rocking school too in her leopard print...

She enjoyed her new big girl chair she got for Christmas...

And they ate many breakfasts and snacks at the new "Diner" they got for Christmas...

We went to birthday parties and our favorite, Playstreet Museum for open play...

We made random costumes on demand...

We hung out at the playground....

I accompanied these two little munchkins in "Chapel" at school (these two buddies have the same birthday) 

Taylor got her first haircut...

And started throwing her first tantrums...

But it's hard to stay mad long...

We even made it to our favorite winter tradition...the Fort Worth Stock Show.  Usually we go to the rodeo too, but weren't able to get tickets this year because of the new venue. But we still had an awesome time seeing all the animals and walking around. The smell of a barn just takes me right back to my sheep and pig showing days! I love it! Greyson even checked something off his resolution list...Riding a Horse! 

In late January we found a "farm" property to look.  It has always been our dream since moving to the city to have a place to get away in the country. We miss it and would love to expose our kids to some of the "country life" that we grew up with. We absolutely fell in love with this place. It was 65 acres of pure heaven.  NO LIE, the property line was actually in the shape of Mississippi and in a town called Taylortown. It was like the Good Lord put it right in our laps. We made an offer, it was accepted, and we were set to close March 13th, just 3 weeks after of Jeremie's 40th birthday. 

I feel like you already know the end of the story. If you didn't catch the foreshadowing: SPOILER ALERT...we did not get it. COVID-19 stole that dream about 48 hours before we made it to the closing table. But I'll unravel that story over the next few posts. 

I took these pictures on the way back from seeing that property for the first time. I was in utter awe of the picture God painted in the sky that afternoon. I'm still in awe of how Sovereign He is and has been over this whole year that felt out of control. Even thoughI have been a "a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind" (James 1:6), He has remained the same. 

                                         

And on a lighter note, this was literally the last picture I took in January! I LAUGHED OUT LOUD when I saw this! I took a picture of this song that was playing for my college room mate as an inside joke, but BOY, could it not be more appropriate for what was coming in 2020! 

And that was JANUARY! Stay tuned for February, the month that I shall forever call "Ignorance Is Bliss!" : )