Getting Ready for Valentine's Day

I was talking to my mom and on the phone and telling her how excited Addie and I were to make Addie's Valentines and her box to put them in!

My mom informed me that my first year doing this holiday with kids, was her first year not having to do it, in a very long time, and she was excited about that.

I'm sure someday I'll be excited to not hafta do all this kind of stuff, but for now, I'm loving that Addie's at an age where she gets really excited about anything that I make sound exciting:)

For family home evening we helped Addie make her valentines for her friends.

She was over the moon excited about the princess valentines that we found.

I was a little worried she wouldn't give them away.

We had a talk about sharing.

 When she was saying her prayers that night I was helping her and told her to say, "Please bless me to be a good friend."  She promptly turned to me and whispered very reverently, "And share my valentines with my friends."

Some of her friends came over and we decorated boxes for valentines.

 I prepped all her 'embellishments' and then had her put them where she wanted.  She topped it off with some beautiful coloring.

She did a great job of putting a valentine in each kids' box.

I tried to get a cute pic of her running around with her friends dressed up in her adorable valentiney outfit, but she was a little overwhelmed by everything going on and mostly stuck to my side.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Love My Life

I've felt so unmotivated to blog because we haven't had anything 'big' going on for awhile. 

When truthfully, the fun stuff is all the little things that happen day in day out.

So here's a little bit of what we've been up to.

We did some babysitting and, of course, had to make some cookies.

These girls could not wait for them to come out of the oven!

They stood there watching them cook the whole time.

We had a family home evening lesson on missionaries and we made Uncle Calvin a Valentine's package, complete with a beautiful, custom finger paint.

Addie goes 'grocery shoppin' about 5 times a day.

Not joking.

Periodically throughout the day she'll go find some shoes, find her purse and get her baby and say, "See ya later!  I'm going grocery shopping."  Then 10 seconds later she comes back in the room and declares, "I'm back!"

Here she is on a particularly stylish shopping trip.

She can frequently be seen sporting the no-pants fashion.

One of her favorite things to do is make pancakes on Saturday mornings.

She wakes up, marches downstairs and gets the mixing bowl out.

She loves her pancakes to be Mickey Mouse shaped.

Last Saturday, I was cleaning up the kitchen after making them and came upstairs to find this!

A princess tea party!

Notice that there is a place set for me and baby brother.

Also note the crazy bed head complete with syrup to make it all stay in place.

This girl sure makes us happy.

Funny Times

With Addie talking so much these days, we've finally entered the stage of parenthood where we get to here some pretty hilarious things come out of that little mouth!  So, sorry but there'll be no pics to this post.  But I've gotta get this story down before I forget it!

A couple weeks ago we were grocery shopping.  It was the end of the trip, which is when she's losing patience and so I'm just trying to get out of the store.  As I'm grabbing the last few things she says in a very frustrated and impatient voice, "WANNA GO SEE BRAAA!" (Yes, braaa is how she pronounces Grandma. Don't ask. We don't understand either)

So I said, "I wanna go see Grandma too."

Then she says, "Wanna go see Gracie! (my family's dog)"

"Yes, Addie, I wanna go see Gracie too."

Addie, "Gracie's pretty cute." I love that she attaches the pretty to these kinds of sayings

"Yes, Addie, Gracie is pretty cute."

Addie, "Papa pretty cute too!"

In case you're wondering, Papa is her Grandpa, and yes, he is pretty darn cute.