Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

We had a SUPER happy St. Patrick's Day!

We had rainbow waffles with cousins, story time at the library, St. Patty's service, crazy pranks from sneaky leprechauns, Irish dinner, and more!  Great day!

Cousin breakfast!

I was disappointed with the way the waffles, turned out--so I tried to do one as a pancake.  It was disappointing too, but they tasted good! :) 

Matt's "green" lunch for school.

The leprechauns put all this up and more while we were asleep!!

My sister made us these cute cupcakes!

I love these shoes--but today is my FAVORITE day to wear them!  Thanks Jess!

You can do it Brucy!!!

My own little Bruce Bogtrotter! 

Lindsay in Swan Lake

Spinach salad

February Service

This was my FAVORITE month of service!!

We were done a lot earlier in the month, but the kids and I had so much fun!

#1- We gave roses to most of the widows in our neighborhood.
#2- We made and delivered cookies to family and friends
#3- We made and delivered valentine cards to our local Care Center
#4- We heart attacked our Bishop and Primary President

Valentine's Weekend

Darin took me on a fun Valentine's date on Saturday.
We went to Farmington Station and had dinner at Parkstone.

It was delicious!  But my favorite part was the love mix CD Darin had playing in the car.

Sunday was an extra good Valentine's day.

I called all of the widows in our ward and invited them to primary.
I had the kids sing to them then gave them each a rose.

The widows LOVED it and I think the kids loved it just as much!

One of the kids, after primary, said, "That made me feel good inside and made my heart happy."

We also gave some "flowers" to the primary presidency!

I made this candy bar bouquet for Darin that I thought turned out cute!

Here is our kitchen I decorated 4 days before Valentines day.
I LOVE how these envelopes turned out.

Matt was worried what would happen if we ever have another baby, and the baby wouldn't have an envelope, so we went back to the store to get more supplies to make an extra envelope.  (This is not an announcement).

I just had to add this handsome picture of Matt.

He is SOOO good about opening the doors for everyone!  Love this boy!!

Valentine's morning Andrew helped me make heart shaped pancakes. 

And we LOVED eating our Valentine's breakfast on our cute place-mats from Aunt Kristy!  

Thank you!

Happy Valentine's Day!

My 3 Favorite Kids!

I just love these three!!

We turned these three pictures into some cute valentines for family and friends.

(I'll try to remember to post those later).
But, for now, just enjoy these beautiful faces!

Lindsay's Ballet Pictures

Lindsay had her class ballet pictures today.

Those girls look so cute in their "moonbeam" costumes!!

I love Lindsay and her little friends and we LOVE Creative Arts Academy!!

These are two of her good friends, there are several others in her class, but we didn't catch them all.

And, of course, we LOVE Erika!!

21. Take a Photography Class

I checked another item off my 40 before 40 list!

My sweet spouse, Darin, gave me a photography class for my birthday this year!!

I took the class with my friend, Kellee.

I have LOVED LOVED LOVED my camera, but I really haven't done anything other than auto.

I cannot believe how much I learned in this class, and I honestly can tell a big difference in my pictures already!  I still have a LOT more to learn and a LOT more to practice, but this is something I've become very interested in, and I'm so so so glad I took this class!!

Thanks Kellee for motivating me to jump in and do it!!

And thanks Darin for not only giving me this class, but watching the kids the past 4 weeks!

Here's to our next class together somewhere down the road (if I ever buy photoshop).

January Service

We were really excited to start our February Service, when we realized we did NO service in January.  So, we did a quick service day to get all 4 projects done in one day!

For our "January" service we:

#1- Hid a dollar in the dollar toy section with a note for someone to chose a free toy

#2 We asked our cashier what his favorite treat was, then bought it for him
#3 We taped some popcorn to the redbox with a note that said to enjoy some free popcorn

#4 We taped a note and $2 in quarters to the car wash

#WhoCanIServeToday

Snowshoeing at the Cabin

Darin and I took the kids for a day trip to our cabin.
We also took my cousin, Blake, and his girlfriend, Ashley.
By the end of the trip his girlfriend was his fiance!!

Here is a little video of the fun day!
(The end of the video shows the proposal...and spoiler alert...she says YES!)

Darin's 35th Birthday!

A few weeks ago I asked Darin what kind of birthday he would like to have.  He said that he wanted a General Authority themed birthday with a President Uchtorf cake.  (I am SURE he said this, thinking I would NEVER follow through).  Well, when I realized that mutual fell on his birthday, and Darin was adamant about not missing mutual for his birthday, I talked to the YW and YM presidents to see if we could do a General Authority themed birthday for Darin.

They were both very kind, and jumped on board and let me plan the whole thing.  I planned several party games (that were actually, surprisingly, VERY fun).  Darin had NO CLUE!  It was a really fun surprise and I think both he and the youth enjoyed the night.

I sure LOVE this man!  So thankful for his goodness the past 35 years!

I had 7 games planned, but we only did 5 of them.

We split the YM and YM into two teams and they competed against each other.

The first game was GA Mad Gab (I wrote Mad Gabs for each of the 12)

Next, we had a contest to see who could most quickly put the 1st presidency and 12 in the correct order using plastic cups with their pictures on them.

Next, I had the names of the 12 and three facts about each one and they had to correctly match the facts to the right person.

Next, we played a game to see who could most quickly (and correctly) identify the GA by listening to an audio clip.  

The last game was "Who said it, Uchtdorf or Dumbledore."
(That is a really fun game too--you can find that one online).

Last we sang Happy Birthday to Darin and ate our President Uchtdorf cake!

(I felt weird cutting into it, and then I felt REALLY bad when Lindsay came over, saw me cutting and said, "NO!  Not his NECK!"

After mutual we came home and Darin opened his presents.

Happy 35th Darin!!