Again with the low key birthdays.  It’s becoming a Farly tradition.  Magei requested a surprise birthday party this year.  We celebrated a day early…that was the surprise.  Anyone want to nominate me for Mother of the Year?!

Magei requested Happy Meals from McDonald’s for dinner.

Magei wanted to dress up for her party (which btw only included me, Nate, and Sam).  She asked me to help her look her best.  Then she asked me if I could look my best.  (Apparently I was not looking my best!)  So, she went into my closet and picked out a matching purple dress for me to wear.  I made this dress for Magei to wear when the weather is warmer, but I suppose there’s nothing wrong with thinking spring in February.

We sang plenty of Happy Birthday songs…she was delighted!

We opened presents, ate cake and played wii.  Magei has been in love with My Little Ponies lately, so that was the majority of the presents.  Sam was just itching to jump in her lap and steal them all, but he controlled himself nicely.

…so, how’s everyone doing?!  I’ve been on a little blogging hiatus; thoroughly enjoying reading everyone else’s  goings on, but not blogging a bit about my own.  What have we been up to, you ask?  Here:

Nate (attempted to?) grew a beard/mustache thingy for no real reason other than some other fellow residents said, “Let’s all grow beards!”  This thing was around much longer than I would have liked.

We got about a million inches of snow.  Which means I have shoveled about a million inches of snow.  Sam is in heaven.  I am sick of walking to/from the bus stop everyday in sorels.  The snow is still here, but I’m hoping the bulk of it is gone by next week.

Super Bowl party with friends…Go Colts! (I know…they lost.  But Go Colts anyway.)

Primary talent show.  Magei rocked the house.

Wii sessions with friends.

Now, there’s plenty more that we’ve been up to, but nothing that I took pictures of.  I’ve got lots of little projects going on, we (as in Magei and me) are working on potty training Sam, and Nate’s had school stuff occupying his time.  Speaking of Nate, he’s a little super star, as he just found out last week in Chicago.  But, that warrents its own post, so more to come on that later.  Up next: Magei turns 6!  Stay tuned.