Daddy Cooked Us Dinner

I was busy on the computer filing our amended tax return, because Provo Craft messed up on my income, and I came into the kitchen to start dinner when I saw Jon making dinner for me! I was so happy. He made dough to make homemade tortillas and was frying them up. He used to work at Celebrations Cafe when he was in high school and learned how to make some good food there. He made us MexiGrills for dinner. They tasted fabulous! They are a homemade tortilla filled with refried beans, taco meat, cheese, lettuce and sour cream.

The most amazing part of it was all of our kids ate every bite! AND they did it without complaining. We will definately be having Daddy make this for us again!

Eagle Scout

Our familiy went to an Eagle Court of Honor last night. One of the boys that Jon was a scout leader over got his Eagle Scout Award. He asked Jon to present him with the award. It was a great honor for Jon. He never received his Eagle Scout as a teenager and has loved being a scout leader over the years to help motivate others to get theirs. It was a great ceremony. There was a presentation showing the 3 Eagle scouts on their journey to become an Eagle. It was great to see how this young man has grown over the years. Congratulations Evan!

Leah's room is done!....almost

I finally went back to Kmart to get Leah some king sized pillow shams and a bed skirt. Well, the set I bought for her doesn't have king sized pillow shams, so I just bought her some pink king-sized pillow cases. The set also didn't have any bed skirts that went along with it. So, I luckily found a bed skirt that was purple and matched her bed set perfectly. I really love her room. It's so girly! Leah loves her "pink and purple" room. I have to say that I LOVE it too. Now, the only thing left to do is build her dresser. She has a white 4-drawer dresser that we're still in the process of building. We have one of the boys dressers made. One down, two to go!

Organizing

We bought our kids all some new toy organizers. Hopefully it will help them keep their rooms cleaner. I also bought Leah a new bed set and curtains for her bedroom. I still need to get a bed skirt and a few more pillowcases/shams. She really likes it. I think it looks great in her room too.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day is probably one of my favorite holidays. I like making heart shaped food and pink/red food all day. My mom would always make us pink pancakes on Valentines Day. I thought about making the famous pink heart shaped pancakes, but I opted to make pink Cream of Wheat for breakfast. I even topped it with red sprinkles. I think I went a little too far with the food coloring because it turned out DARK pink!

For lunch I made heart shaped sandwiches with sliced red apples. Caleb's sandwiches were his favorite: cheese and pickle. Leah's were pb&j.

I spend all day de-cluttering our house, so when Jon and Alex got home I wasn't in the mood to make something for dinner. I suggested to go get some pizzas, so that's what we had for dinner. Jon gets grossed out by food-colored food, so going with naturally red foods works out better for him. I lightly tinted the ranch dressing pink. It was hardly noticable, but Jon said, "this doesn't look quite right." So I told him I tried tinting it a little pink so he wouldn't be grossed out.

Now we're going to watch Cinderella and have a nice quiet evening at home in our clean and clutter-less house!

Shirley Temple

When I knew I was having a girl I was hoping that she would have my curly hair. Leah has a little bit of curl, but not as much as I did at her age. So, I LOVE putting curlers in her hair. (She doesn't love it as much...in fact it took a LOT of convincing to finally get her to agree to wear curlers all night).
So, this is her finished hair the next day. I think she looks so cute! We went to computer class that day and she wore her sweater with a hood. She wanted to wear the hood, "so no one can see my curls." She enjoyed looking at herself in the mirror and liked wearing the headband. My mom said she looked just like Shirley Temple.

Silly Shower Hair-do

My kids have a ton of fun taking showers. They take longer showers than I do, especially Alex. He's in there for 30 minutes sometimes! I sneaked into the bathroom to get some funny shots of him doing his hair into a mohawk.

Snowmobiling

We went snowmobiling in the fields behind my parent's neighborhood. The kids had so much fun. Leah didn't want to ride on the sled so she got to ride with Daddy.

Papa was pulling the "bathtub" sled (as Leah called it). Caleb and Alex liked filling it full of snow so they could throw snow balls at everyone else that passed by them.
I got inside the sled with Alex and my mom pulled both of us around for a ride.
Then, it was Nanny's turn to get in the sled with Alex. She was smart and used the tarp for a shield to protect them from the flying snow.
Even after they loaded up to come back the kids still hadn't had enough snow time and played in my parent's back yard for a while longer. Their snow suits were soaked by the time we got them inside to get warm.

A Fun Weekend

We got to go to Nephi on Saturday to see Jon's little sister, Sophia, be baptized. It was such a great day. We watched President Gordon B. Hinckley's funeral and graveside service that morning/afternoon and felt the spirit so strongly. Then at the baptism we were able to feel that spirit again. We are so proud of Sophia. She looked so happy and excited to be baptized. We enjoyed spending time with family.

That night Jon also got to serve his other little sister, Merry, by helping her install a new alternator in her van. He was happy to help her out and was glad we live close by so he could help her.

Sunday we went to my Aunt and Uncle's house for a Super Bowl Party. I would just call it a "party" because we could care less about watching football. We just like to go for the socializing and I love to play games too. My kids loved playing with the other little kids that were there. They are really good about making new friends and seem to have a good time no matter who is around. Overall it was a great weekend. I hope this week will bring our family more happy times and good health (we struggled a bit last week with Leah being sick, but she's doing much better now).