Valentines Festivities

We had fun in February celebrating the month of love. Paul and I always do the "14 days of love." We try to do something nice for each other each day. I made a few of his favorite dinners, he vacuumed out my car, I surprised him with treats at work, he bought me flowers, etc. The very first year we did this tradition I tried to make jello legos. I used our mega blocks and it was a hilarious and ridiculous mess. So this year I bought a lego mold and they turned out great. 

(This was the first year I did it back in 2013 haha!)

We had a little Valentines party with some friends in our ward. We played games and made Valentines and had treats, it was fun! 

Grandma Suzy bought this shirt for Susie and she was excited to wear it during the month.

I got together with a neighborhood friend and we made a bunch of cake pop valentines to deliver to women in our neighborhood. It was really fun. Everyone needs a little extra love in February. 

Our family service project for February was to take Valentines to the Beehive House so we did that together on Valentines day. We are getting to know some of the residents there and that is fun. 

On Valentines day we wrote the kids notes. The kids had fun making Valentines boxes and couldn't wait for their class parties. I got to help in Braden's classroom. We had a yummy family dinner later that night. Jalair came too. It was a happy Valentines Day! 

Winter Happenings

Here is a few pictures from the last few months. 

I got to have a few girls days with my mom and sisters. There was a temple trip and good eating and  shopping and a sing-along version of Bohemian Rhapsody. All excellent. 

Braden turned 5 1/2 so we had a little half birthday donut celebration. We also celebrated Jalair's birthday last week. She is a friend from church. 

Morgan took some family pictures and they turned out cute. We wanted a few of Susie by herself to celebrate her 8th birthday.

Timothy had a half birthday too! We didn't do donuts for him but we did do oatmeal cereal, haha. He is getting the hang of it slowly. 

We've had eye doctor and dentist appointments. No cavities but we were surprised to find out that Susie needs glasses too! She wasn't very excited about them. She is nearsighted, just like me. The boys are farsighted, although Braden is so farsighted he can't see near or far. They get their eye problems from my side of the family, sorry kiddos. I think she looks adorable. 

My great Aunt Ila died and I got to attend her funeral. She lived a good life and it was a happy day with family. 

Paul has been teaching Susie a lot about baptism and what it means to have faith in Jesus Christ. I love listening in. Susie tried on the dress that I wore the day I got baptized. It's a little yellow and a little big for her but still cute. We got her a new dress for her special day and we are so excited for her. 

Clark's 3rd Birthday

Clark was very excited to celebrate his birthday. He has been asking everyday since then when he gets to have his birthday again. Sorry bud, it's just once a year. 

Clark is the cutest and spunkiest 3 year old. We call him the hulk because he acts just like him haha. He loves to pretend battle Pokemon. He loves everything orange. He loves when someone will battle with him or play with trains or help him pile every toy we own on his bed. He loves playing with legos too. He will say, 'mom we go play with toys, that good idea?' And if I say 'I am making dinner' he will yell, 'no! that not good idea!' Every morning when he wakes up he doesn't want to eat breakfast, he just wants to start coloring Pokemon. But he doesn't want to do the coloring, he just wants to watch me color them. Then we cut it out and tape it up somewhere or add it to the never ending collection of coloring pages we have. He loves to snuggle and read books with me. He doesn't have much of any appetite (unless it's sugar). I don't know how to keeps growing based on what he eats. He does love apples and broccoli and most of the time I can get him to eat a granola bar during the day. 

For his birthday he went on a date with Paul to spend his birthday money from Grandma. I took him on a date to Costco, too. I love spending one on one time with him. 

We decorated the night before his birthday so he was so happy and surprised when he came upstairs. He got to open one gift before everyone left, Connect Four. 

Later on we had some of my family that lives close by over for pizza and cake. He wanted a Boldore Pokemon cake. It was really fun having everyone over to celebrate and Clark had so much fun! 

Happy New Year!

We had fun celebrating the New Year. We take down our Christmas stuff pretty quick but we like to leave our tree up so we can decorate a New Years tree. We put streamers and noisemakers and balloons on our tree. In each balloon there is an activity hidden that we can do during the day. 

The kids loved popping the balloons to find an activity. Some of the activities were go to Chick-Fil-A, a Come Follow Me activity, the donut eating race (we do this one every year now), and a game we call "save the children" were we hide sour patch kids and cover them with whip cream. You have to find the sour patch kid in 10 seconds, no hands allowed. 

We made a fort and watched a movie with popcorn and then a countdown on Netflix. 

I love making plans so January has been exciting. We've made some fun plans for trips, dates, service projects, and resolutions. Plus I get to hang out with these cute boys everyday. Here's to 2019!