Valentines Day!

We had a good Valentines Day, James had to work the night before and the night of so we were not able to celebrate that day but we are going out tomorrow night to celebrate! I got a surprise Friday when there was a knock at the door and this package was delivered to me.

I was very surprised to see it! I was not expecting flowers just thought we would have our night out to be together.

Inside the package were these roses, very beautiful and very thoughtful of him to remember during a work week to order flowers.

I had found cute shirts on sale for the kids so I dressed them in them on Saturday and took some pictures. Madalynn is looking so much more like a kid than a baby these days, she makes me smile but I am sad to lose my little baby.

We are working on good smiles with Will, I think he is getting some better but not very natural looking yet. We will get there! I loved this shirt I thought the Heart Breaker was so cute. He also is looking more grown up to me these days.

Again natural smiling is being worked on with Olivia too, she is very fun and is starting to get into girly things. She is asking to go shopping with me and wants to watch girl movies together. I am excited to do mother - daughter things with her.

Here is all of them together being goofy I was trying to get them to relax before another picture was taken.

Here is my bunch of Valentines! I love having them in my life and are so thankful for them!

Hope every ones Valentines Day was a good one.

Finally.....

We are finally all better!!!!!!!!!!!

We have had the 24 hour flu passed to everybody in our family the last week and we are now all better. It is good to be well and feeling great again. I will post more when I get a little more caught up on life.

Her 1st Haircut!!!

Today we took Madalynn for her 1st haircut, she was getting so frustrated with it getting in her eyes. So we took her and Will to get haircuts and she did really good until they cut the bangs, she started to get upset that hair was hanging in her face. But when that was done she was happy again, she still pushes her bangs off her forehead but that is a habit and I guess she will stop doing it eventually. We love it and are happy.

Before....



I couldn't get her to stand still for a good before picture but you get it.



After.....



Now she was willing to sit still!

She loved getting a sticker and a balloon when it was finished!

The Bucket List

My sister-in-law sent this to me in an email asking to put an X by all the things you have done and I thought it would be fun to post it on my blog so here goes!

(x)school
( ) Watched someone die
(X) Been to Canada
(x) Been to Mexico
( ) Been to Florida
(x) Been on a plane
(x) Been lost
(x) Been on the opposite side of the country
(x) Gone to Washington , DC
(x) Swam in the ocean
(x) Cried yourself to sleep
(x) Played cops and robber
(x) Recently colored with crayons
(x) Sang Karaoke
(x) Paid for a meal with coins only-fast food
(x) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't
(x) Made prank phone calls
( ) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
(x) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
( ) Danced in the rain
(x) Written a letter to Santa Claus - the kids this year said that we needed to all write Santa letters!
(x) Been kissed under the mistletoe
(x) Watched the sunrise with someone
(x) Blown bubbles
(x) Gone ice-skating
( ) Been skinny dipping outdoors
(x) Gone to the movies

1. Any nickname? No (Heather had some unusual ones for me but I am not putting them)
2. Mother's name? Joann
3. Favorite drink? Water (every once in awhile Dr. Pepper)
4. Body Piercing's? Just my ears
5. Tattoos? No
6. How much do you love your job? Motherhood is the best!
7. Birthplace? Bellflower, CA
8. Favorite vacation spot? We are really enjoying exploring Oregon right now
9. Ever been to Africa ? No
10. Ever eaten just cookies for dinner? no
11. Ever been on TV? Yes, if a Seminary Video counts
12. Ever steal any traffic signs? no
13. Ever been in a car accident? Yes
14. Drive a 2-door or 4-door vehicle? 4
15. Can you drive manual? I can but I hate them
16. Favorite pie? Pumpkin
17 Favorite number? 6
18. Favorite movie? While You Were Sleeping & Sleeping Beauty (I guess I like movies about sleeping :)
19. Favorite holiday? Halloween & Christmas :)
20. Favorite dessert? Next Best Thing To Robert Redford is what our family calls it that was the name on the recipe in the newpaper others call it Missippi Mudcake Anything you call it, Yummy!
21. Favorite food? Chinese or Mexican
22. Favorite day of the week? Saturday
23. Favorite brand of body wash? Olay Body w/ body butter ribbons
24. Favorite toothpaste? Colgate with mouth wash strips
25. Favorite smells? Apple & Cinnamon
26. How do you relax? read, scrapbook, watch tv
27. Yourself in ten years? Enjoying my kids, husband, & life!

Please complete this list for yourselfs if you want!

A Call From Will's Teacher!

I got a message yesterday from Will's teacher asking me to call her back, she said it wasn't anything bad just something she had noticed at school and would like our help to reinforce at home. I thought what could it be? I know Will has been struggling with his letters and starting to read so I figured it had something to do with that. So I called her back and I was very surprised to hear it had nothing to do with anything academic, she had seen Will and a little girl in class kissing! So she told both of them a couple times it was not appropriate to do that at school and when they did it again yesterday she felt she needed to involve the parents. So we were called and the little girls parents were called and told, she assured us it was just innocent pecks on the lips. So we were asked to have a talk with him at home, so James and I sat him down to talk and he got very embarrassed and said I didn't want to but she and another girl told me too. So we talked some more about saying No when he doesn't want to do something, it just made us smile at his explanation.
So I called my mom to tell her about it and she laughed and said what is it with our family the little boys sure like to kiss little girls. For those of you who don't know my brother Brad, his son was kissing a little girl at school a while back!
So Will now knows he is too little to be kissing girls!

Getting Back On Track!

I feel like life went crazy for a month or so and I haven't been great at blogging lately. I still have been looking at every ones blogs but didn't feel like I had time to post on mine. So here goes I know I am way behind but I want to post about Christmas so here is our first activity: Letters to Santa!

We went to Macy's to mail letters in their cool red mailbox the kids loved it!

Snowy & Icy Everywhere

It snowed all day yesterday and by last night we had freezing rain, I have never been in freezing rain before and this is how things looked this morning.

This is our street, from far away it looks like it should
after about 6 or so inches of snow.

But if you get closer here is what it looks like after James
stepped in the snow coming home from work. You can see
the layer of ice on top of the snow, and how it cracked from his foot.

This is the tire track from the SUV this morning,
amazing how it cracked everywhere, looks like
broken glass.

The hood of our car covered in snow & ice I have

never seen it like this.

This is our tiny backyard but you can

see we got tons of snow.

James said it took him 20-30 minutes to scrap the windows this morning before he could come home from work. This is the time of year we wish we had a garage big enough that our SUV could fit in, but our garage is so tiny the SUV won't fit in. It sounds like we could have wintery weather thru the week hopefully we can finish last minute things for Christmas! Everyone in Oregon be safe on the ice.