Family Date Night

03-13-15

Rode our bikes to a near-by treat shop,

played some baseball at the park,

then did some geo-caching.

3-6-15

Date Night

Temple, Cake, Silly Faces.

Family Read-a-Thon

[Bowling]

02.16.2015

{Heart}-Day

You know what was GREAT about Valentine's Day this Year?

That it was on a Saturday!- Which meant a whole weekend Of Love-y things!

On Friday I had a candle-light breakfast

for the kids before they left for school

-with heart healthy pancakes and fruit!

These are the Valentines we made for the boys' classes

middle child worried that the girls 

would think he was asking them on a date,

but much to his relief,

he said not one girl got the wrong idea!

[sha-wooh!]

I helped in the first-grader's class for his class party

and 

later that night,

we went to a Valentine's Dance hosted by our friends!

there was a live band, lots of yummy food,

and we got to dance our legs off!

I'm married to such a fun Valentine 

with Awesome Dance moves!

Come Saturday,

the actual Day of Valentines,

I had to reattach my legs from dancing them off,

and get out the door for a VDay run-

(truly, it was only because I'm training for a marathon)

but when I got home,

I had a bouquet of flowers waiting for me,

and my running app gave me the chocolate heart badge! 

 The evening portion of the day was so wonderful!

Husband dropped my off at my sister's house,

and her and I got fancy-shamancy,

and then when our Valentines came to pick us up,

they brought us back to our house 

where they had the most WONDERFUL

Dining experience set up for us!

They had hung lights everywhere in the dining room,

pulled out the fancy china dishes,

and had cooked up a Delicious and well planned dinner!

They had the kids all well behaved and each played a part

serving us and answering our every beckon call!

They had made drinks, appetizers, and salad, and

grilled salmon and steak and veggies,

and for dessert they had made fondue,

and cakes and cookies and fruit to dip.

Truly, we agreed that this experience was more Special

to us than going out to dinner somewhere.

That they had planned and cooked and co-ordinated,

and been so thoughtful- was something to really Love.

It was relaxing, it was completely enjoyable,

and it spoke heaps of LOVE.

Date Night

2.06.2015

Went to the Temple,

then tried a new little cafe,

that had sandwiches,

and then they had a huge 

vinyl record collection to browse through,

and then when you found a record you loved,

you could play it on the record player! 

January Extras

To keep our Winter exciting,

We engaged the kids in some extra-curricular activities:

an Art & Drawing class for some,

 and Basketball for another.

Its rewarding for them and us

to see them use and grow 

their minds and talents!

A Perfect 40!

Someone at our house had a BIG Birthday!

To Celebrate this Big Day,

We had Breakfast in Bed,

And had Family over for a Birthday Party-ing Bash!

The Kids made posters for Dad to hang all over,

and we took as many pics as we could

of the Birthday Boy's life 

and taped them up EVERYWHERE!

We played some games to Celebrate the Birthday Boy

and ate his favorite treats.

One thing we did,

was I had a 

"One Word to Describe Jar"

and Everyone put a word on a slip of paper

that they would use to describe the Birthday Boy

and put it in the jar.

Then we read them out loud,

and I taped them to a card,

for him to save for ever.

The MOST used word to describe

our Birthday Guest of Honor?

Yep. 

"Energetic" nails it.

We Love this Man in Our LIVES!

 

Party of Five

01.10.15

Spent this Saturday night

partying with the members of the Exclusive Club:

"Our Family".

7yr old J made signs,

We ordered pizza,

had a dance party with disco lights,

played "Truth or Truth"

(those kids got some good stuff out of us!),

and

played games till we couldn't think straight!

Real Party Animals, 

round' these parts.

01.01.2015

Happy New Year!

Our 4th Annual Happy New Year's Eve 

Family Party!

[Insert sound of crashing cymbals and confetti canyons]

Let the New Year Begin!