Valentine Fun

I really enjoyed Valentines this year. Last week was pretty rough because I was sick the entire week. I'm just now feeling better. Jarod was gone part of the week and with me being sick, my house was a little of a disaster zone. Jarod emailed me on Friday and told me the Valentines came early and there was something at home that would make me feel better. When I got home, I walked in to my kitchen and there were beautiful yellow tulips (my favorite flower) in a vase on the bar and my kitchen was clean. After smelling my flowers, I walked into the living room and on the end table was another vase of pink tulips! I was so shocked. They were also beautiful and my living room was nice and clean. When I left that morning there were clean clothes in a pile and they were gone, so I decided to go upstairs and see what else Jarod did. When I got to our room our door was closed part way and I noticed a lamp was on (Jarod never leaves on lights while we are gone). I opened the door and my room was clean, bed was made and a vase was on the nightstand with two red roses. Do I have a sweet hubby or what? It was the best gift ever. When Jarod got home that night we hung out and watched a movie with Allie. We originally planned to all go out to eat, but food did not sound good to me.

Jarod and Allie watching Monsters Inc.

On Saturday (Valentines) I slept in and Jarod cooked breakfast for me. Allie and I decorated cookies (thanks Anna) to take to our friends Matt and JT's house. Our small group at church is trying to find different ways to serve each other and others. JT came up with the idea to have two couples every 3 months volunteer to watch each other's kids so the parent's can have a date night. Matt and JT and Jarod and I decided to kick it off on Valentine's night. We kept two kids (Thatcher and Karl Mikal) plus our own (Allie, Hannah and Callie) from 5-9 Saturday night. We all had a great time and the kids got along great. We are so glad that our friends were able to escape for few hours and focus on their marriages.

Hannah and Allie working on a puzzle.

Dinner time; Girls side

Boys side

Miss Callie hanging out

All four munchkins.

Sweet Karl Mikal typing on the computer.

I also had a video of Hannah and Allie dancing to music, but blogger was having issues downloading it. I will try to put it on later in the week.

Getting Crafty

My friend Kristen had a bunch of girls over and taught us how to make bows for our little girls. I was a little overwhelmed at first because I am not crafty what so ever! Thank goodness Kristen is a teacher and had patience with us all. It took me a while to get the hang of it. In fact I think in 1 hr. I had only made one bow. At one point I said that I couldn't do it and Allie said, "you can do it mommy". It was great to have girl time and to learn how to do something fun. I think they turned out pretty well and can't wait for Allie to wear them. Thanks Kristen for having us over. We will have to do this again!

Sorry there are no pictures of Allie actually looking at me. She was eating dinner!

Allie will be wearing this bow tomorrow.

This picture does not do this bow justice. It is by far the cutest on I made. In fact several of us copied this one from someone else because we all liked it so much.

This was the first one I made, and you can tell. Not my best.

I just love this red one. I think this is the best one I made.

I Was Just Kidding Me Mommy

I know it has been forever since I've posted anything. There really isn't a whole lot going on in our house, but I will try to do better! I decided that I will quickly post something Allie told me just a few minutes ago. We were up in our play room and Allie got in the desk drawer b/c she saw the calculator. She loves to play with the calculator. I did not know what she was getting because I was in the bathroom so I asked her to close the drawer. She chose not to listen (imagine that!) and continued to get in the drawer and then finally pulled out the calculator. I told her that she needed to put it back because she did not listen to me and that the calculator was now in time out. Then this conversation happened:

Allie: "Mommy, the baby told me (she's holding her baby doll) to get that calculator."
Me: "No Allie, right now the calculator is in time out. You can have it in a few minutes."
Allie: " I was kidding me Mommy (her telling me that she was kidding). I was just kidding me."

Love the words of a 2 year old!