Road Trip

Last Friday Jeff had to work out of town and my sister lives about 40 minutes away from where he was working, so we packed up the car and the boys and I tagged along. We left Friday morning and didn't get very far when the traffic on the Interstate was backed up as far as we could see because of an accident. Jeff decided to go offroading and got us off the freeway so we could take a back road. We got back on the Interstate and soon came upon another accident involving two semi trucks but traffic started going pretty quickly. We dropped Jeff off at work and the boys and I drove to my sister's house. Owen and I went back to get Jeff after work and then we all stayed the night. There was a lot to do in the short time we had until we headed home Saturday morning.

There were golf clubs to swing...

Blocks to build with...

Baseballs to push around...

Cars to drive...

(In case you're wondering what happened to Owen's head, he decided to introduce himself to the sidewalk in front of our house as I was loading the car Friday morning...)

Yummy pancakes to eat...

(I think Owen ate at least 4 pancakes...)

Pizzas to make...

Friends to text...

And before we left town, Owen decided he had worn himself out with all of the playing and excitement. The roads were horrible on the way home and we passed 3 cars that had gone off the Interstate, but we made it home safe and sound. Thanks for the fun, Lawrences!

A Heartshaped Feast

For Valentine's Day we had a heartshaped feast that included:

Heartshaped Meatloaf

Heartshaped Pink Mashed Potatoes

Heartshaped Jello Jigglers 

Heartshaped Butter to go with our rolls

Raspberry Lemonade 

Owen loved the decorations

For dessert we had mini cheesecakes, chocolate mousse, and chocolate covered strawberries-leftovers from the Valentine Dinner we had on Saturday with friends

Our Heartshaped Feast. When I was making the meatloaves they reminded me of real human hearts and no one could figure out what the pink stuff was-Ethan couldn't beleive they were potatoes!

My Valentine 

Kamden

Ethan

Owen

After dinner it was finally time to dig into our Valentine Jars we made 2 weeks ago for FHE. Each day we snuck love notes, treats, and thank you's into the jars. Here is a picture of Ethan's loot.

Kamden's Valentines-complete with a few from himself.

Jeff's Valentine Jar goodies

My love notes and treats

Owen's. I wrote him a note thanking him for taking a really long nap the other day.  

THANK YOU Grandma & Grandpa Hurst for the package full of surprises! 

Owen chowing down on the cheesecake and chocolate mousse.

LoVeR's LaNe: DaY 14

The best decision I ever made.

Valentine Dinner

A few weeks ago Callie had the idea of doing a special Valentine dinner for our hubbies. We planned the menu and decided to have it on Saturday the 12th since Valentine's Day is on a Monday. My brother was nice enough to watch our 3 boys and their little girl at our house while we had a relaxing dinner at Brody & Callie's house.

Callie made the cute menus and also did a shrimp cocktail and garden salad for apitizers. Our main course was steak, salmon, twice-baked potatoes, and dinner rolls.

For dessert we had chocolate mousse, cheesecake, and chocolate covered strawberries. The time went by quickly and was full of yummy food and fun conversation.

The husbands did the dishes and cleaned up while Callie and I put our kids to bed and sent the babysitter home for some much needed rest.

Happy Valentine's Day!

LoVeR's LaNe: DaY 13

These are three memories all wrapped in one: each time we had the blessing of welcoming a new little life into our family. Each delivery was so different-Ethan was our first and neither of us had any idea what to expect and so many things went wrong, including him being turned the wrong way and taking his sweet time to get here; with Kamden I decided not to have an epidural and I can still remember how great you were to help me get through that when I was ready to give up; Owen's delivery was the easiest of the three but we were anxious to find out if there were any medical issues that had been possible since our ultrasound at 4 months. We have been so blessed with these beautiful, healthy boys and I'm so grateful to have had you by my side each time they came to us.

LoVeR's LaNe: DaY 11

This is from our trip to Portland in 2007-you had to go for work so I tagged along. We drove to Lake Oswego and walked around the temple grounds and went to the Oregon Zoo. We also went on a lunch cruise on the Columbia river and went to the Saturday morning market. It was so beautiful and green everywhere we went and it was nice to get away for a few days. When we were on the cruise there was a grand piano where the guy playing was taking requests-you couldn't remember my favorite love song but for future reference, here it is:

100 Days

Today Ethan's class celebrated the 100th day of school and everyone brought 100 of something. When I asked Ethan what he wanted to take, he said his pillow pet. I had to explain that he didn't have 100 of those and it needed to be something small that he could take in his backpack so we came up with marbles. Some other things that kids brought were: popcorn, M&Ms, goldfish (the crackers, not real ones), Legos, berries, seashells, and rocks. It's crazy that we are about 2/3 of the way through the entire school year but we are looking forward to the summer!