The month of February was relatively mellow. Well I guess our life isn't really mellow no matter how few extra events we have because, well, we have so darn many non-extra events.

Anyway, we did have one really super fun unusual event. We had a party at our friends, the VanWagoners. It was a get together for a bunch of our friends we had known in Enid Oklahoma. There are several families living in the Colorado Springs area and so we all got together and just visited and ate. It was really wonderful. Rochelle and Jared VanWagoner hosted the whole thing. The Travis and Karen Higbee, Jeff and Jennifer Lakey, Jaydee and Shaunda Burns, and our family were the attendees. Good times were had by all.

We did our annual cookie party for valentines day and we also had our annual family formal dinner. I really love making such a big deal with the fine china and candles etc. for the people I love most in all the world.

The Chinese new year was on Valentines day so we celebrated a day late but had yummy Butter Yaki (a tradition introduced to us by my SIL Heather) and read our fortunes to celebrate that. While we were eating the Butter Yaki Hans out of the blue declared, "this isn't yucky. It's delicious!" We all thought that was quite funny.

One final event that is worth mentioning is that we had a little fender bender. Normally that wouldn't be worth even mentioning or remembering but it was such a maddening experience. We very gently bumped into the back of a car at a right turn on our way home from church. It was no big deal and so we thought we'd just check to see if we'd done any damage to their or our car. When Mike got out to check, the driver of the other car also got out and was totally fine. He went to the side of the road and made a phone call, we thought he was calling the police to report the accident. He then went back to his car and talked to the passenger and then they asked us to call the police and an ambulance. Huu? Well, we called the police and told them that the passenger of the other car was complaining of some neck pain. They sent a fire truck, an ambulance and two police cars. Now both of the jerks in the other car were faking total incapacitation. They were both carried out on stretchers with neck braces. We did all the police reports etc. and then came home. Mike got the camera and went back and took several pictures of their car that had been left since they were both headed to the hospital. We also took several of our van and then called our insurance to let the know that these idiots would be calling with all kinds of lies about their terrible injuries. I was so ticked. I was very pregnant and it didn't bother me one tiny bit but these guys were claiming to have been in so much pain they couldn't move and so on and so forth. Well we did get a call from their lawyer asking what kind of insurance coverage we have and how much it covered etc. We didn't tell him anything. I hope they don't get a thing. I hope they end up having to even pay the ambulance and hospital bills but I'm sure they won't. I'm sure that it will all be covered and they will probably even get money out of it. Then they will go off and do it again. I'm pretty sure they were trying to cause that accident. They started to go and so we started to go as well and then they suddenly stopped. Well we can't prove anything but there you have the story of the month.