February 28 - Visitors

Shennie & Kacie came to visit tonight!  They are touring the new temple tomorrow morning and they came to our house to visit and stay tonight!  It was fun to have them here!  And fun to receive the  bountiful basket of home grown food from Kacie!  We got banana bread, farm eggs, freezer jam, canned peaches, pure beef, and garden corn!  All home grown!  Thanks, Kacie!

Of course we had to take them somewhere fun in town.  Since it's Sunday, we chose to take them on a walk around the temple.  Fun Sunday!

February 27 - Brunch

We went to brunch this morning with the Craig family!  I used to work with Ken in Las Vegas and they invited us to their house (now in Provo) for brunch this morning!  We had a great time and look forward to getting together again!

And then this afternoon, I spent some time decorating for Easter.  Made the egg banner.  Got a pretty neat looking vase from Katie and sprayed it with pink spray paint.  Then added some flowers.  Wala!  Side note: I took Andlie & Haze with me to get the spray paint.  On the way there, I was singing along with the radio.  Andlie told me, "Mom, you sing pretty.  You should go to college & sing."  And Haze said, "Mom, you sound beautiful."  Well.  I think they're the first people in the world to tell me that.  And I'll totally take it.

February 26 - Ideas

Brainstorming for April Fool's Day.....

February 25 - Helmets & BYU Game

I put my red lipstick on again this morning.  Nora watched carefully & said, "Mi, you color on you lips!  And you color them."  Better hide my lip liner & lipstick.

Tonight we went to the Lantern Festival where we saw Andlie's lantern!  We had to use the flash to take the pic, so she couldn't keep her eyes open, but wanted a picture anyway!

After we got home, we spent some time outside riding bikes!  We made sure to get a helmet on all three of the cute little heads on the bikes.

And after dinner, Bryan took Andlie & Hazey to the BYU basketball game!  It didn't even start until 9:00 which is bed time in this house, but they had so much fun!

Meanwhile, Mommy & Nora went shopping and cozied up on the couch for some quality TV time together.

February 24 - Tranformer & Getting Big

I was working on the computer when all of the sudden, I turned my head and saw that Haze had used Nora's baby furniture to turn in to a transformer!

Then that transformer took my phone & took some pictures (about 20) of his favorite subject.  Got a pretty cute/sassy pic of Princess Nora.

I thought Nora was looking extra grown up this morning.  She's getting so big!  And has the vocabulary & personality to prove it!

Hazey wanted to take his picture in the chair.  So we did.  I love his shoes on the wrong feet and his happy little face.

February 23 - "Daisey Coat" & Chinese Lantern

FINALLY cleaned out all the kids' clothes that were too small.  (I had nightmares about it last night.)  In the process, I found a cute 2T coat that used to be Andlie's that fits Nora now!  It looks just like Daisey's coat.  (See here.)  So when we put it on, she proudly exclaimed, "I wearin' Daisey's coat!"

 

Andlie finished her lantern for the Chinese Lantern Festival at her school this week.  Since it is the Year of the Monkey (as Andlie told me), she wanted to put a monkey on her lantern.  She drew it FREE HAND BY HERSELF and then cut it out & glued it on her lantern.  Girl's got skills.  And they're not from me.  Then Daddy helped her drill holes all around the monkey so it would light up when the lantern was lit.  Turned out pretty good and she's pretty proud of it!

Just in case you were wondering, here is the monkey that she looked at while drawing (FREE HAND) the monkey for her lantern.

February 22 - Selfie Stick

Bryan is in charge of CERTIFIed again this year.  It's his company's big user conference.  This year, it's in June in Florida!  He's already been working hard on the conference and spreading the word.

He ordered some selfie sticks to give to all of the participants.  They came in today.  So naturally, he & Kris had to try them out.