Valentine's Day

We had a great Valentine's Day. I have to admit: I love all holidays. They are so fun! I love to go all out! So this year we had a blast. It went a little like this:

-got up super early and made Rex biscuits and gravy with orange juice (heart biscuits of course)
-made chocolate chip pancakes for the girls
-Annie took treats to her preschool class
-loaded Rex's lunch full of love notes and mini apple pies (his fav)
-made sugar cookies with the girls and dropped off at neighbors
-decorated the table with cut-out hearts and lots of chocolate candy
-made a yummy romantic dinner including:
grilled spicy honey chicken
homemade rolls
mashed yams topped with toasted coconut, marshmallows and candied walnuts
steamed broccoli
and chocolate chocolate chip cake for me and rex :)
- put the kids to bed and exchanged fun gifts
-had dessert and watched the movie: Valentine's Day (so cute)

what a great day! I just love my sweet Valentine, Rex!! (he surprised me by dropping me off at a spa for a wonderful massage, I had no idea!!) LOVE YOU HONEY!!


We started the week off with my dads birthday. Bowling, dinner and ice cream Sundays, yum!! LOVE YOU DAD!!

The girls waking up and opening their Valentines gifts and having breakfast! Love those sleepy faces!

making sugar cookies

carefully cutting or Macey just playing with a blob of dough :)

Olivia crawling...yes crawling around on V-day!

The girls took turns using the camera and taking pictures of me with them. Some of them turned out so cute I just had to share. I love these kids!! Me and Macey.

Me and the babe.

Me and Annie. I have the best life :)

A little Bling

My sweet girls have been sooo sick! I guess I shouldn't be to surprised that everyone gets coughs and runny noeses becuase they are all in the same room.But Annie got a sudden urge to get her ears pieced, so...... not knowing if it would last we took a trip to the mall and she did it!!! Now Annie is my brave kid. Loves the doctor, eye exams, meeting complete strangers, but I thought she might back out of this one. No way. She was so excited. Yes, there were a few tears, but just a few minutes later, she was happy as could be. Even picked out her first pair of earrings....some cute owls. She wanted dangley (is that a word?) feather earrings but I said lets start with something a little less wild. Anyway, Brianne was there too to capture the moment.
Happy and hugging the bear
Right before.....
Right after... The tears are gone but poor Macey cried too when she saw Annie cry. How sweet. Tears of sympathy. But everyone recovered :) Macey does NOT want to get her ears pierced.
Side note.... my cute baby fell asleep sitting up and tipped forward. CUTE!! Don't worry I fixed her so her legs wouldn't fall asleep :)And she blends in with her blanket. Baby camo.
And, I am pretty excited about this! Brianne and I got together and actually accomplished something. We get together in high hopes of doing crafts or projects.... but the day flies by and all we have done is entertain, feed, clean up after, and break up fights between our kids. (They really do get along) Anywho.... we both got Kindle Fires from out husbands for Christmas so we made cases. Super cute.