Busy busy day today, Jaime had a basketball game then we had to work at the girl scout cookie booth, which was no where near each other, I felt like we were rushing and running all day.
Our Mr. Coffee espresso machine quit working the other day. My husband is a coffee snob, grinds his beans and like his coffee strong and tasty, he usually laughs when other people say they make a good coffee. He is pretty nice guy and makes me a mocha every night, I drink hot tea in the mornings. Anyway back to my story we had one machine that lasted a year, this last one we had only 6 months when it quit working. He was able to rig the old one up and it worked till he opened it up and tried to add the part to the newer machine, now we had two non working machines. I really didn't want to buy another Mr. Coffee machine again but my coffee freak had to have something and we had tried, grumpy kids with us as we looked for one and the cost was also a factor. So we came home with our third Mr. Coffee machine. This time we're sending in the warranty and I'm copying the receipt so it doesn't fade away, I'm also planning on emailing Mr. Coffee because if this one dies a sudden death there will be no more Mr. Coffee for us. We also bought a french coffee press as back-up. I bought a regular coffeepot at a garage sale last year and he was going to use that but we had no filters so he stuck it back into the box and a few minutes later a cat knocked it over and no more carafe. Sometimes you just have to laugh and now we can laugh caffeinated. :-)
The girls were out of school for Parent Teacher conferences, I had planned a coop class to Chip Chocolate Factory at Crown Center. We've done this class before but chocolate lovers that we are once is never enough. While waiting we stopped at the free kids exhibit. After lunch at Fritz's with our friends we headed to the Kansas City Zoo for a fun afternoon. 
Happy Valentine's Day!!
Melissa attended the winter formal.
Amy and her friends have a fun time decorating their valentine day boxes at the library after story time. 
Jaime's last basketball game, she's glad there won't be any more practices with suicide runs. She said she had fun but isn't sure if she wants to play next year. I think she likes to shoot baskets more than running up and down the court so our driveway might be a better place to play.
After the game and pizza party we headed to Wyandotte County lake and the F.L.Schlalge library for Eagle day, this was my first time going but Jaime and Jim had been twice before. Amy didn't have the patience to sit for the 45 minute talk so we should have waited another year. We ended up in another room where she could run around. 
I've been talking about this wool quilt, this isn't a very good picture but I will post one soon.
Angela hosted a Chinese New Year party for our coop in January. She read a couple books, we made cute lanterns and dragons. In the top picture you can see Ellie holding her dragon we made out of paper and chopsticks. After all that fun we enjoyed tasty Chinese snacks. This year Angela had sweet bean soup which was pretty good and dumplings plus a smorgasbord of sweets, cookies, watermelon seeds and tea. This is the third year we've been able to go and my older kids attended the first year and still talk about it, of course the food tasting is there favorite. 
Amy at Wonderscope with her Zebra face.
Busy busy day today, Jaime had a basketball game then we had to work at the girl scout cookie booth, which was no where near each other, I felt like we were rushing and running all day. 
