I Heart You day!

Like I say every year, I love Valentines day.. It's just what we need to break up the hum-drum of the winter months.  And hello, PINK, and GLITTER, and LOVE splattered everywhere-- what could be better?!  Oh yeah, and I get to make cute crafts like this felt flower wreath.

I may over-do a rather silly holiday... but it's fun for me, so who cares, right?

Our holiday kicked off on the 13th when a BEAUTIFUL bouquet of flowers from the hubs arrived.  I didn't expect any (at least not at day early! hehehe)

Thanks Lukey! You are too good to me!

That night, after the girls were in bed, Luke and I "Heart Attacked" the girls doors with little hearts that said things we love about them.

Then being the good sport that he is, helped me hang streamers in the kitchen.  

THE GIRLS LOOOOVED IT! They woke up so excitedly-- especially when I told them they got pink french toast for breakfast! 

 My pretty little Valentines!

 Then I sent Tianna to preschool.  No one said anything about handing out Valentines, so I stupidly assumed she didn't need any. Wrong! Apparently all the other mom's just did anyway... She was the only one without them :( I felt bad-- even though she didn't seem to care.

So we rushed home and threw some Valentines together... it was great writing practice too! :)

 Good thing there are only 5 other kids! haha

LOVE how they turned out!

It was fun to hand deliver them anyway... 

I guess we saved Valentines Day after all! 

The rest of the day was spent preparing for our "date night" with Daddy.  Last year we transformed the house into a "restaurant" but since we have a different set up, it would have been much more difficult.  So we just had a fancy dinner... with all the trimmings:  steak, potatoes, pink jell-o salad, garlic bread, pink lemonade, green beans, and of course, chocolate dipped strawberries! Mmmmm

Oh, and did I mention I made my first (and possibly last) German Chocolate cake.  Apparently I'm the only one who loves the topping... 

PS-- don't EVER put sugar sprinkles on it-- clash of flavors! 

Sadly, Luke was walking out the door from work when he received a phone call that ended up keeping him at work for another hour and a half. 

At least we had time to finish ALL of our preparations....

Including my gift to Luke (besides dinner)

 Between these two posters was a trail of chocolate kisses.

By the time he came the girls were so glad to see him! (stupid dying camera battery ruined my pictures!)

 He brought home a pretty bouquet for each of them. Such a sweet daddy!

Then we ate our delish dinner, watched our wedding video, and that was about it! It was a perfect day.  With my perfect little monsters :) and my perfect man! 

Oh yeah, did I mention my wonderful husband also gave me a gift certificate for a mani-pedi! Oh yeah........

This is the face of someone who is spoiled! 

February stuff

On the 10th and 11th, we had a great little trip down to Moab with our friends, Blake and Chantel.  We left right after work and then drove down.  We stopped at a few hotels to check their deals and ended up at the NICEST place that just so happened to have the BEST deal! Our room had a king and 2 queens and was still cheaper than the Super 8! It even had a nice hot breakfast!

We hiked to Morning Glory Arch first thing that morning.  It was about 2.5 miles in, and very easy..but so beautiful.  It even had quite a few river crossings.  

 So glad Chantel came with us! Blake and 2 of his canyoneering buddies did the opposite way into the arch then rappelled down over it.  The rest of us hiked in and then we all hiked out together.

We came across these amazing frozen waterfalls (actually frozen springs coming out of the rocks--SO COOL!)

It was so slippery we were doing everything we could to keep from falling!

 I love the desert!

 MORNING GLORY ARCH!

 Blake rappelling off the 100 foot arch.  Unfortunately his camera decided to escape out of his pocket and crash to the bottom!

 On our hike back the boys set up some more rappelling so Luke could have an opportunity too. I would have done it but the beginning was different than usual.. You couldn't just walk backwards off the ledge, but had to maneuver yourself off from a sitting position. um.. no thanks.

 Then we had lunch and looked at the beautiful scenery.

 Sand Dune Arch.  We went into ARCHES Nat. Park for a little bit and really only had enough time to do one arch. We chose Sand Arch because I remember loving that one as a kid.  It was so fun-- but by now, SOOO COLD! It made it a little hard to enjoy, but it was still fun.

 POST CARD PERFECT!

 I am always amazed at God's creations while I am here.  It's so breathtaking!

 Lastly, we stopped off at the Delicate Arch viewpoint.  I wish we had more daylight to have hiked it... but our little one's legs were tired after all that hiking.  Especially Tianna-- what a trooper. She hiked the whole day by herself (only carried over the river crossings!) and on top of that, she had a fever all weekend. (so sick of these fevers or ear infections EVERY weekend!)

We ended our fun little trip with a stop at Zax in Moab for dinner.. who knew that some pizza buffet would end up costing us more than either the gas or the hotel (when split).  Stupid 18% gratuity for horrible service.........

But hey, other than that, the trip was perfect!

Gun Show, Snow (finally!), and other February Randoms

It's been a good month so far (how is it possibly the end of February already though!?) I feel like it just started!

After all the hospital trips, we started having some FUN! On the 4th we went to a Gun Show in SLC with Luke's parents.  The night of Tianna's injections, they came to stay at our house and the next morning we took Adelia to the doc for ANOTHER ear infection before heading up to the Gun Show.  The show itself was a disappointment, but we still had fun with the Peacock's!

The best part was dinner at Sizzler's though :)

These girls sure love their grandpa 

FINALLY FINALLY on February 12th we had enough snow to actually enjoy! We hurried and built a snowman because we didn't know when it would snow again (or if it would last long.)

 I saw a cute idea on Pinterest to make a hand-stand snowman.

 Unfortunately, it is better in theory than in actuality.  About a half hour after these pics were taken he fell over.

But that's okay! Because before the snow all melted away we made another one on Monday! 

 Tianna wanted to make a 2 headed monster.... her friend didn't love the idea. haha..

 We feel so lucky to have such gorgeous views right outside our house!

 Come to find out, our yard makes for a pretty darn good sledding hill too!

That night we made our way up to Provo to get our cards made for our Pass of All Passes. We are so excited to use them this summer and for random nights out.... like FHE.  We got our passes and then went to Trafalga in Orem for some mini-golf and a 4-D movie ride.  

 While we waited for Luke to finish up work we took some random pictures.

Mini-Golf'n

Riding the "Haunted Mine" ride

PS- just when I thought I was the worlds worst mini-golfer I got 2 hole-in-one's on the last 2 holes. It was amazing! :) hahaha.. i just had to gloat a bit because it will probably never happen again and I'll go back to my 10 puts per hole!