SUNDAY SHENANIGANS

Crystal and Millie decided Sunday afternoon that we should decorate sugar cookies for each other. Yay for me... I suddenly found myself baking cookies and making frosting even though I really didn't want to. haha. Good thing I love them! 
PS They had to use white frosting cuz I couldn't find the food coloring. Good thing there were lots of sprinkles!

VALENTINE'S DATE NIGHT

Saturday night we went to FUJI'S for date night. It was BUSY!!!! Even on weekends it usually isn't quite this crowded!!! But we still had a good time! This is seriously becoming one of my favorite places! Which is bad because it's just too expensive!!!!

OPEN GYM

The kids had a free open gym so we went and cousins came with us to play Saturday morning!

VALENTINE'S DAY

Well for some reason the pictures I took Vday evening are gone so I don't have much to share. Jay wanted a Green Shark Vday Box and I didn't remember until the night before. I'm also a full believer in letting my kids doing their own work and not making these fancy impossible projects... not because there is anything wrong with it but mostly because I am not an artist and I never feel like I have TIME. I of course ended up doing most of the work on Jay's since it was literally bed time when we started, but it definitely looks like he could have done it. lol. Can't draw a shark let alone cut one out... especially without time to think about how to do it right. lol. Anyway, it isn't anything fancy, but it did the job. 
I also helped at Jay's class valentine's day party. I brought cookies and sat and visited with them as they ate (they were split in groups and rotating around the room). These 5/6 yr old kids were fun to listen to. They were super excited to tell me all about their vday boxes and valentines and oh so much more! Haha. 
We got the kids each a "We love you Twix much!" Twix bars. It was a yard length box with 18 TWIX BARS in it and a balloon!!!! I gave Ty his favorite candy bar. Ty brought me a pot of flowers (lets see how long I can keep them alive), chocolate, and a Mt Dew at work!!! 

 

DADDY DAUGHTER DANCE

The school had a Daddy Daughter Dance the day before Valentine's Day this week. Ty surprised them with corsages to match their dresses! They wore them to church today with new dresses that Grandma and Grandpa Cook got them for Vday but I didn't get a picture of them! Oops!

100TH DAY OF SCHOOL

Well I couldn't find suspenders or gray hairspray, so we did the best we could with what we had to make Jay look like he was 100 yrs old. I tried to make a gray beard ... still not sure it even looked like a beard. Haha. And put him in a light blue suit. He was terrified of going to school like this. He was sure I was wrong and none of the other kids would be dressed up. He was sure they would all laugh at him! But no worries the day was a success and he said his teacher loved it! 

SIBLINGS

Jay was being silly and Crystal was throwing a ten year old temper tantrum. Haha. Completely unrelated to each other just in the same room at the same time.

VALENTINE'S DAY PARTY

We had fun at our ward Adult Valentine's Party this weekend! They had Waltz and Cha Cha lessons. It was a fun night with good company! It was a nice date night after Ty being out of town for work all week!

Just Me and the Kids: SICK DAYS

Well Ty was out of town all week for work. The kids and I did our best to entertain ourselves without him here. Haha. Each of the kids took turns sleeping on his side of the bed. I'd like to think it was so I wouldn't be lonely, but really I think they were hoping to stay up late and watch TV. Haha. Which they did a little... We also started reading "The False Prince" to help us pass the time till Dad came home. Even Jay is loving the book! It was a fun and stressful week... especially since the school district decided to cancel school due to sickness for 2 days and I had to find time to work through all of it!

SICK DAYS

When school is cancelled and the power company decides to replace a power pole near your house resulting in an 8 hr power outage, you take the kids to Arctic Circle with friends and take your dear old time eating lunch.