february wrap-up.

Since we're quickly approaching April, it's time to move this blog past February. A few random photos from the month...

We had fun watching the winter Olympics. For the opening ceremonies, the kids made paper Matryoshka dolls since the Olympics were held in Russia. We also attempted to spell Olympic-related words with our bodies one night.

Ski.

Sled. I think.

Ice.

After our first very warm day, the frogs came out in full force. We could hear them making a lot of noise in our forest. And then we found this little guy stuck on our front door. 

This kid and his fluffy top hair. 

Evening light in our backyard.

Simon and messes. All. day. long.

A warm Saturday at the park.

We finally tackled some of the mess in the garage. It has been such a luxury to have a garage. As we unpacked boxes, we just tossed the empty ones into the garage and ignored them. Actually, we put a lot of things in there and ignored them for awhile. We finally decided to break down the boxes.

Before.

 

Not quite there but getting better. Maybe some day we'll park our cars in there.

Picking out old reclaimed barn wood for our new kitchen island!

Our first date night in MONTHS. Delicious vegetarian entrees at Irregardless Cafe in Raleigh. So good. And because I love reading food descriptions in an attempt to recreate them later:

Fresh poblano pepper stuffed with a Spanish ratatouille rice placed atop a black bean cake and served on a roasted red tomato puree and balsamic reduction, topped with cream fraiche & smoked gouda.

and

 Half of an acorn squash filled with a wild rice pilaf, lentils, pumpkin seeds and a splash of molasses, topped with roasted corn salsa.  Set on refried black beans with roasted beets and white beans with roasted pineapple.