Happy Valentine's!

We had a fun Valentine's day this year with parties and lots of candy! Here are some pictures -

Enjoying our "fancy" dinner, except the kids won't eat steak so they had mac-n-cheese. I hope their tastes change some day!

We cut out jello hearts for our valentine's dessert. Neither of the kids had ever had jello, so they weren't sure what to think at first!

Luke had his school party yesterday and it was lots of fun. Here they were decorating a heart ornament.

Since I was the party helper, my mom and Vic came to help with the party and Abby. She just made herself at home and enjoyed the party too!

Snow day...with no snow

It was predicted yesterday that we would be getting snow.... well none came, which left me with a crying 3 year old who was upset because he had already described in detail how he was going to decorate his snowman. So, fortunately Vic was home today and we were able to salvage the no-snow-day with some fun activities :-)

First was pin-the-nose-on-the-snowman....this was a big hit with everyone in the family!

Then we wrapped Luke up in toilet paper to look like a snowman....

Then used the toilet paper to make snow balls and throw them at each other....

And my favorite - snowman brownies!

I would have preferred a little snow, but am thankful for a fun day with my family :-)

Visiting Chipper

This past weekend, we took the kids to go visit my grandmother, Chipper. It was such a fun time for the kids to get to see their great-grandmother and they did great traveling in the car.

January Fun

These are just a few random pictures of fun things we have done in January...

Grandma and Granddad gave the kids a cardboard house to play with, perfect for cold January days....and when Granddad comes over to play!

We had a chance to stop in College Station last weekend and visit Uncle Andy on his birthday :-)

I took the kids to the zoo this week to enjoy the outdoors before the winter blast came in, it was such a nice quiet day, the kids had a great time.

Party in the bathtub!

It has been SO cold here this week, and the poor kids are going crazy inside. So yesterday when Luke told me on the way home from school that he wanted to play at the water park (umm, a little too chilly for that!), I suggested a party in the bathtub. The only difference between this and regular bathtime was that it was in the middle of the afternoon and in my bathtub, not theirs - however, this difference seemed to be enough to convince them that this was a fun event. And 45 minutes later, the kids were clean, warm and ready for naps....successful for everyone.

Matching

I love being able to occasionally match Vic and Luke, I don't know why, they don't care what they wear as long as they have clothes on, but I just think they look so cute when they match :-)

I was going to try to match Abby and me also, but I just couldn't find this outfit in my size -

Happy New Year!

I am sad that Christmas is over, but we have had such a fun few weeks with Vic having some time off from work and just having lots of quality time together as a family :-) Here are some pictures of what we have been up to since Christmas!

We went to the children's museum with my mom, a friend and her family and the kids had a blast!

One of our friends and her family celebrate New Year's Eve at noon on that day and invited some friends over to join them, so here is Luke ringing in the new year....with a gun?? :-)

And lastly we celebrated my 31st birthday on New Year's. It was a super fun and relaxing day with our families!