Valentine's catch up

We had a few days of Valentine related activities starting with Kyra's class party at school on friday. She got to make a Valentine's box this year (man how I have memories of this from when I was young-it was always SUCH an ordeal to come up with the perfect idea for a box and now I am doing it with my daughter-weird!)

Kyra and I designed her a Valentine's purse and she thought it was great!
I was in charge of Kyra's party and Adrie always loves to come too! Then we tried to take some Valentines' photos.......

We watched Aiden and Avery while Julie helped at Halle's party......

Bree and Avery were content have a pretzel picnic

Took some more photos...... ( I really need to learn how to use my camera other than just on auto focus-but it sure is fun to play with)

Kyra and Halle got to play for awhile after school too.....

On Valentines the girls opened their little gifts and then the girls and I headed to the primary PJ and pancakes party. Kris had to work all day so he didn't get to join us. The day didn't go exactly as planned. We had a little family emergency to attend to and thanks to amazing friends who know just when to call and check on you, my girls were able to enjoy the evening with their friends at Julie's
Kris and I spent the evening with my family (it turned out to be just a scare in the end) and then headed home to have a shortened version of our Valentine's plans with the girls before bedtime. THANKS again Julie and Tucker!! You were lifesavers!!

Happy Valentines!

Adrie's Valentine Preschool party

Adrie and two other little neighbor friends do a little preschool/playgroup and they were really excited to have a Valentine's party together.

Natalie's mom made this yummy brownie heart!
We made these cute ladybug projects

Adrie, Natalie and Jerron

Bree was REALLY excited that I let her try a brownie-or two-and she sure made a lovely mess of it!

This is what I found on my doorstep just now.....

3 Dozen Beautiful Long stem Roses from my sweetheart! Adrie said "WOW mom you got Belle roses (as in Princess Belle)"

THANK YOU HONEY!!

Things I am LOVING.....

Since LOVE is in the air this week I thought I would share a few things I am LOVING right now.....

I am COMPLETELY addicted to these.......(and they are hard to find-Harmon's is the best bet if you want to try them-which you need to!) and these........LOVIN Monday nights for 24.........(thank goodness for tivo so I can watch it late when Kris gets home)

and I am LOVING these faces........

The Terrible, Horrible, No good Very Bad Day (s)...

Last week started out REALLY rough! Monday started out bad and just kept getting worse. Sparing the details, it was basically just one thing after another and when I was at the end of my rope, I called Kris to see what time he would be home that night, and he said "honey I am in Logan and I won't be home until Wed." WHAT?! Ok, I knew he was going to Logan but I just assumed it was for the day and apparantly in the midst of my bad morning I didn't see him packing a bag. He assumed that I knew. So that was the last straw-or so I thought-in my day and I hung up the phone and had a good cry. After gathering myself I made a rash decision to take the girls to get their hair cut at Supercuts. They had been wanting their hair cut like their friend Sadie's and our friend Bonnie wasn't working Monday so I thought, how bad can Supercuts do? Well I learned my lesson.......They Butchered their hair-seriously! The picture doesn't even begin to do it justice! So I went home and cried some more!
Luckily, Bonnie saved us and fixed their hair a few days later!!
Now they both have really cute cuts-shorter than planned because we had to fix the mess but now they are cute! THANKS Bonnie!!! We will never be Cheat"hair"s again!

Tuesday things kept up with the bad week theme when we decided to go get dinner at Noodles and Company to support Ky's school. They were having a fundraiser there and part of the proceeds went to the school so we arrive, order and are looking around not seeing anyone from school so I call Julie and lo and behold we were at the wrong location. So now Kyra is crying, Bree is throwing food and acting like a 2 year old (nice time to start this) and mom is DONE!
Luckily, 3 Terrible, Horrible, No good Very Bad days can be made better when your cute husband comes back in town with a bouquet of flowers to say "I'm sorry you had such a nightmare of a week and I wasn't here"!

Bree's new obsession is climbing up on the computer the minute she sees it is empty and this time she decided to empty the entire box of newly opened kleenex.....

On to this week:
Kyra celevrated the 100th day of school yesterday and got to dress up as an old lady! She looked so great in this wig but unfortunatley she didn't leave it on past the bus stop. Apparantly she was worried the boys would laugh at her! Seriously?!
She did keep the rest of the attire on and had a fun day! When I was asking her about which friends dressed up she said "well one of my friends told me she was not going to dress up because old people just freak her out. She really gets freaked out by all those wrinkles and stuff" So funny what kids say!

So here's to a much better start to our week than last week!!

Welcome Kacen

My new nephew was born saturday morning! Welcome to the family Kacen! We can't wait to meet you!

Cousins

It was amazing to see how well our kids all got along all week. They have only seen eachother one other time-a few years ago- and they acted like they had been friends forever. They just entertained themselves with all sorts of creative games and had a great time! My girls have been bored this week without all the company. Carter decided to refer to my girls as "friend" and he would come up and say "come on friend, let's go play" It was so cute!

Bree likes to make messes in the back corner of these couches and then she often gets stuck between them.

We of course did a little shopping with Lex (Don't worry Keith, not much..just remember if you want the shopping to be limited on these trips, then always send her with the kids because who wants to take 6 kids shopping?) We found this cute new coat for Bree and the matching shirts for the girls (above picture)Unfortunately they didn't have them in Paige's size.
The kids took their build a bears with them everywhere we went!

Friday we had a get together with all our cousins and it was SO fun to see everyone. I don't know why we don't do it more often since most of us live here but it seems like it takes the out of town cousins coming to make us get together. We were sorry we missed Ali, Bonnie, Lida, Chaly and Jenny. Girls, we really need to make it happen more!

Bree looks so big trying to walk around. She is doing it a little more now.

Friday night we decided at the last minute that we needed an outing without children (or most of them anyway) so we got a babysitter and went to Big Rock to purchase these cute hats that I LOVE!

Then we met Kris at David's Kitchen for some delicious chinese and some adult conversation. Kris enjoyed being the only man with 6 women!

Then we had to say goodbye.......

K & A sporting our cute new hats!

The famous K & A coniving pose! Thanks for all the fun Lex and fam!! We wish we could see you all the time!!