minute to win it...valentine style

On Valentines Day we decided to play some Minute to Win It games after dinner.

First, stacking conversation hearts as high as we could:

Next, we tried to throw heart shaped marshmallows into the red cups.  

We also stacked them on our foreheads just for fun.

Last, we put cookies on our foreheads and tried to get them down to our mouths.

It was fun to be together and be silly.

call me mcgyver

Kaden wanted "something cool" for his Valentines party mailbox.  I checked out Pinterest, but didn't find anything that I loved.  So, we talked and I had a great idea.

I had all of the supplies, well except for the duct tape.

I cut circles out of textured black paper.

Attached them to some brown cardstock.

 

Wrapped a giant pencil with cardstock, attached it to a small box, and attached the whole thing to a shoe box.

 

Bought this sweet duct tape, and wrapped the whole project with it.

 

Added his name with brown letters, attached the brown cardstock and we were ready to roll.

Pretty sweet.  He was thrilled, which was the whole point.

Happy Valentines Day!

not much happening...

Freddie and Patty went home.  We loved having them here!  I think they were freezing in all of the snow/ice we had.

 

Cool little dude.

 

This is what happens when Bos wakes up for the day before 5am.  He totally crashed sitting up in the chair with his drink about 4pm.

 

We had more snow. More in the forecast for the weekend.

My little helper at the store.

 

We found a major score at D.I.  The boys LOVE playing with one of these at Grandma's house, and now we have one for our house.  Kyle and I both remember having these as kids.

 

We are working on writing numbers and letters.

 

New hat.  He might be the cutest little Perry I've ever seen.

Otherwise, its been pretty normal around here:  school, homework, OT appointments, Daddy's on call nights, playing, going to Mimi's house on Friday afternoon, etc. 

fun times 2

Bosten and I got to babysit the twins the other day.  He was so excited when he heard they were coming!

He was a good helper.  

Kaden was so sad to miss out on all of the fun.  The girls took a rest on his bed, though, and that made him feel a little better.

It was fun to get some baby snuggles in.

together forever

You already know that my grandparents are in town this week.  They weren't so excited about the freezing rain we had, but were pretty excited to go to the temple for the first time on Friday.

I'm not totally sure why they picked the Bountiful temple, but it worked out really well for us.

I went to the session and sealing, and Kyle came up for the sealing.

(Thanks again to my neighbor who came and hung out with our sleeping boys so that we could both be there).

 

3 generations of my family:

My grandparents, parents, and siblings

 

The group:

The mom of the missionary who baptized Grandma Patty, Kacey (sister), Mom, Lindsey (sister), my grandparents, Logan (brother) Dad, Kyle and I, the Nichols (family friends), a friend from their Oregon branch, and a couple from Grant's new ward.

 

 

this and that

This was the temperature last week on my phone.  This Oregon girl is freezing.  

 

Kaden reading a book to Daddy.

 

We had a campout/picnic on the family room floor.

 

I decided to make my own dishwasher detergent.  I got the recipe from a friend on Facebook, but I'm pretty sure she got it from Pinterest.

Dishwasher Detergent:

1 c. Borax

1 c. Super Washing Soap

1/4 c. Baking Soda

1/8 c. Citric Acid OR 2 lemonade Kool-Aid packets (obviously don't add the sugar)

1/4 c. salt

Mix well.  Store in air tight container.  You only need about a Tablespoon per load.

 

My grandparents are in town (Yay!).  My grandpa got to baptize Grant on Saturday.  It was fun to be a part of it.  My grandparents are going to the temple for the first time on Friday.  Good stuff.

 

We talked Kaden into going to Red Robin the other night.  YAY!  We love it, but its too noisy and smelly (in general) for him so we hardly ever go.  We went early enough this time that there weren't very many people there, so it worked out.  It was fantastic.

digging out

We've had a ton of snow since Thursday night.  We knew it was supposed to snow, but seriously, holy crap.  This is the most we've had since living in Utah (5 years).

They even cancelled school on Friday, which has only happened one other time in the last 13 years.  The boys were thrilled and had a great time playing.

Kyle decided to head into work a little early since they had so much to do.

He had no trouble getting out of the garage, but got stuck trying to get onto the street.  We had to dig him out.  Awesome.

I spent an hour and a half shoveling the driveway and was hardly making a dent.  One of our nice neighbors took pity on me and helped with their snow blower.

We were thinking that the fun was about done, but we woke up to even more today.

The garbage can on the left was clear when we went to bed last night, so that's the new stuff.

 Kyle was home today, so he got to help shovel!

We went sledding again, too, which was really fun.

I think I'd rather be in Hawaii...