Happy Snowride, Valentines Day, and President's Day

What a great weekend! I loved that all three of these events happened at the same time-which made for a nice long weekend with our families. We miss them so much but it's really hard for us to make it down for visits when it's just a regular weekend. So tack on an extra day, and oh baby, we're there!!

We started off with the annual Scofield Snowride which the Frandsen family attends faithfully. This year was interesting though- so many of us that usually go on the ride couldn't because we've got buns in the ovens or had little babies to take care of. I think less people went on the ride than stayed home-- but we met up for the lunch in the middle of the ride. But BRRRRRRRRRRRR it was cold!! We still managed to have a little fun though : )

I didn't get a picture of Luke from the ride because my frozen hands put the camera away before his group arrived at the lunch. Here is a picture of him and Tianna at our ward Klondike Derby we attended the weekend before this. There's also a picture of he and the other Elders during an event that they made look so easy-- my group had much less success! hahaha

Anyway, back to the weekend and on to our Valentine's Day. As you know from my last post, I quite enjoy this holiday....and here's why! Flowers and other cutesy things!!!! Sad to say though- we didn't have any sugar cookies, which everyone knows is a Valentine's Day staple!

Tianna and I did get these BEAUTIFUL tulip and daisy bouquet's from our wonderful Dad and Husband. He gives me a bouquet each V-Day and the past two years has gotten a mini version of mine for Tianna. This year she REAAAAALLLY loved them! He handed them to her and she just melted. He had to run upstairs right after she got them and so she turned to me and said "Oh thank you, Mommy." I explained that I didn't get them for her and she needed to tell Daddy thank you. About 5 minutes later (which is a long time for a 2 year old) she saw him and said "Daddy!!! Thank you for the fowers!!!" It was priceless!
Sadly, we had to leave our gorgeous (combined) bouquet right after we got them because we left for Scofield. She did however talk about her flowers all the way down there.

The "Smoochies" were my gift to Luke. It looks like a cereal box that I found in the card section and it has funny little kissy facts all over it. I put his gift inside which was chocolate and a CD from me and the movie "Herculese" from Tianna. Fitting movie for our HUNK! Anyway... interestingly enough, Luke got Tianna the movie, "Cars" and me a CD. Go David Archuleta! We were definately on the same wave length this year with our gift ideas!

As for how we celebrated.... well, since my whole family was together at the cabin on the 14th we decided to have a special dinner. I've recently come upon CAFE RIO recipes and so we made them. It was quite labor intensive, but the other all report was that it was a huge hit. So... it may end up being like Thanksgiving dinner-- a once a year or so thing--- but I'll be making this food again!

Next we headed down to visit the Peacock bunch. We enjoyed a nice family dinner at Grandma Peacock's house and then spent Sunday night laughing it up as we played games until way late. Yesterday we were kinda lazy but we played some more games and went shooting at a gun range.

And no I did not shoot that BAZOOKA. I just held it to make myself look tough.

A cute little story though-- Luke's dad puts on a complete facade as being a tough guy but his grandchildren melt him like a popcicle. (my dad's the same way) But I'm sure something my dad would never attempt was to take two 2 year olds to Price by himself to do some shopping and errands.... and get this-- go to McDonalds and actually go INSIDE. Before he even had a chance to ask them what they wanted to eat they were off in the playland!!! He couldn't get Tianna and Aden out to save his life... so he had to crawl up into the tubes to get them out himself! I wish I had seen that one with my own eyes!! But, needless to say, Bert easily won Tianna over. Here he is reading them stories.