Girls' Room

The girls' room is mostly finished! I have plans to paint the old dresser white this summer when I can paint it outside. And their curtain rod broke (thank you Jay) so they don't have their Frozen curtains up right now. 

Valentine's Day

We had a pretty fantastic Valentine's Day at our house this year. Ty started it off by giving me a beautiful bouquet of chocolates! Then we had valentine's fun at preschool (and the girls' at school) where everyone exchanged Valentine's! Then later that day Grandma and Papa Cook stopped by and gave the kids presents (new oufits) and vday cards! And we ended our day with a wonderful "Breakfast" Valentine's Dinner with heart pancakes and all! The kids had a little surprise at their plates! And I gave Ty a box full of reasons I love him. 

Signs of Spring and Our Busy Weekend

SPRING?

Well despite the fact that it did snow over an inch this week, we are starting to see the first signs of spring! The chickens even wandered out of their run and to the back door for the first time since the snow and cold hit us! Today I could see grass in the front yard and we have dry pavement! It was sunny and warm! And did I mention DRY pavement? Yay! I hope it continues!!!

SOCCER, DANCE, AND A SWIM MEET

Sometimes the universe aligns in such a way that all our activities converge on themselves. lol. It  felt that way this weekend (I'm certain the crazy full moon had something to do with it. lol). Lily had a soccer game (Friday night thank goodness), the girls both had a dance performance, and Lily had her Winter swim meet! To make things a little more interesting, they didn't dance until 4:50 in Shelley and her swim meet was at 6 in Idaho Falls (30 min away) Saturday. Everything worked out perfectly though. The dance schedule was right on time, and we had plenty of time to change, get makeup off as best we could, and get ready to swim!  

I didn't take any pictures of soccer this week, but Lily had a pretty exciting game Friday night! It was kind of funny because Lily was goalie at one point and Crystal was standing 2 feet behind her trying to help her but really just distracting her. Lol. She'd look up in the stand and the ball would go right passed her into the goal.

The girls did awesome during their dance performance tonight! I was one proud Momma that's for sure! They've worked really hard to remember the whole dance, and all that hard work paid off! I have a video of it below.

Lily's swim and soccer overlapped by a few weeks (they usually only play one other sport/activity besides dance). Tonight was her final swim meet until Spring when her soccer session is over. She did fantastic! I couldn't have been more proud of her!

Lots of proud moments tonight!!!! Love my girls!!!

KIDS ACTIVITIES

The girls have there first dance performance this week and I wanted to practice with their hair and makeup beforehand so we had a "fashion day" as Lily calls it. They 'relaxed' in the tub for as long as they wanted (aka played in the tub and mom never forced them to get out). Then I did their hair and makeup and let them try on their outfits. They even practiced their dance for me once before I made them take the costumes off. Didn't want anything to happen to them. Haha. 
The girls are also both playing soccer right now. This is Lily's first time playing. I think she's enjoying it so far. We had pictures this week. I cheated and just snapped a picture really quick with my phone. I can't afford to pay that much every 8 weeks for pictures. Haha. A friend took pictures of Crystal and her team, so I don't have those pictures yet.

SUSHI

We have been loving the sushi bazooka we got for Christmas! We aren't fans of the seaweed so we've been experimenting with other options. haha. This week I used sesame seeds! 

Winter and A Superhero Party

WINTER SNOW

The kids have loved all the snow we've had this year! Our backyard probably has 2 feet of snow covering it. The front even more than that from shoveling. Our deck (where the snow comes off the roof) is up to 5 feet at least. Our table is completely buried. At first we were excited to finally have a normal Idaho winter! This is how winters were when we were kids! But after the last storm Ty came in from shoveling and goes, "I don't know. I think this is even more snow than what we got as kids." Haha. And another snow storm has just come in. We are expected to get a few more inches at least. If I were a child, I would be pretty excited. But as an adult and homeowner, I just keep wondering what my basement is going to look like when all this snow melts!! Haha! I laugh every time I hear the word Spring. It's started to come up a lot now that it's February. At this rate, I'm having a hard time visualizing a time when the yard won't be covered in snow! lol! I'm sure our back deck will have snow on it still in July!

SUPERHERO PARTY
We walked into Broulim's on Saturday to grab a few items for Sunday dinner and the Dairy Queen inside the door had their ice cream cakes half off! We LOVE DQ Cakes! To top it off we found one that had a double layer of frosting to cover up some mistakes! YES! It doesn't get better than that! Haha. It also just happened to be a Superhero Cake! Haha!
We decided the only thing we could do was have a superhero party!!! Haha. Well I guess you could call it that. We dressed up like superheros and ate cake so that counts right? Lol.

MOM FAIL

Well Tuesday I went to go visiting teaching two doors down from my house. The kids didn't want to come and I knew they knew where I was going because in the summer they usually run back and forth from their house to our house while I'm visiting them. I told Lily about 5 times that I was going to be 2 houses down. The place I always go to visit teach. I asked her if she knew what I was talking about. She said yes several times. I told Jay where I was going and asked him if he knew where I was going. He said, "Rocky's" (our next door neighbor). I said "No the house next to Rocky's." I asked him again and he said "The house next to Rocky's." Okay so they definitely know where I am. I'm only a few feet away if they need me so I really didn't feel like I was leaving them alone. 30 seconds away. I put Netflix on for them and told them not to leave the house unless there was a fire! Haha. Apparently a few minutes after I left, Jay decided he wanted another hug. Lily decided to take him to me. (I totally expected this. Of course my kids aren't going to stay in the house when I tell them to). The dog was in the house, and she didn't want to let him out so she locked the door and closed it behind her!!!! Then she realized she didn't know where I was! I'm not sure why she didn't remember where I was. Or why Jay didn't tell her (when we got home I asked Jay where I was and he said, "The house next to Rocky's."). But they sat outside for 30 minutes before I kind stranger found them and took them to my neighbor's house to get warm. A few minutes later I came out and the stranger was still on the sidewalk attempting to leave me a note letting me know where my children were. I felt so awful! I had no doubt in my mind that they knew where I was and would have no problem finding me. Oy! I can't even describe how horrible I felt. And all the things that could have happened that didn't (thank goodness).
I took my girls to dance later that day still feeling like a horrible mother and sick to my stomach about what had happened. My sister in law walked up to my SUV (Jay and I usually sit in the vehicle during class) with a hot pan of cinnamon rolls... AND a fork! Haha. So I could eat them right away! She had no way of knowing the kind of day I'd had, but made my day so much better because of her kindness. She then sat outside my truck in the cold and listened to and comforted me! 

PS. We may have had cinnamon rolls for dinner that night as well. Haha.