Valentine's Day

Making a Valentine's Day mailbox on Monday night.

We put Grant's box in front of his door and told him that in the morning it would have Valentine treats in it.  He was pretty excited when it came true!

I spent most of Valentine's Day making sugar cookies.  We delivered them to a few people that evening.

Grant's Valentine for his brother.

My Valentine for Keith.

Washing all the sticky off of Grant from all the suckers and cookies.  I think he LOVES this holiday.

Our date to LGO

Keith & I had a lovely time going out to visit our niece on Friday night.  She's adorable!

Then we went out for pizza and gelato at one of our favorite places in Phoenix, La Grande Orange (LGO). We were lucky that they were serving their amazing grilled artichoke appetizer.  And then we enjoyed an avocado pizza.  It's amazing!  Afterward we went next door and got our three favorite gelato flavors: strawberry, nutella, and coconut.  The guy there even gave us extra strawberry because I love it so much.  How nice of him!  And how nice of my great husband to take me out for such a fun night.

We also picked up a couple yummy muffins from the grocery at LGO.  I had my strawberry sour cream muffin for breakfast the next day.  So delicious!

And a big THANK YOU to Keith's parents for watching our boys for us while we went out!

The weekend is here!

Hooray for the weekend!  I have a hot date tonight with the Mr.  We're going to go visit our sweet new niece.  I can't wait to meet her.  She looks so darling in the pictures I've seen.  Then we're going out for some yummy pizza and gelato.

But first we get to watch Grant play soccer.  After a few practices/games of tears and not wanting to play, Grant is finally out there playing and having fun at soccer.  He is so adorable!  Whenever we'd talk about soccer in the beginning of the season he'd always tell me about how he cried at soccer.  Yesterday he came home from practice and told me about how he DIDN't cry.  I'm so proud of him, and I can't wait to watch him play this afternoon.

Hope you have a great weekend too!

Feeding Brett : Family Home Evening Activity

READY?

SET

GO!

So we gave Brett a little rice cereal tonight.  I think he liked grabbing his bib most of all.  He got shots yesterday and was sad and not feeling very good today.  He has been breaking down in tears all day long, but he still smiled because he was so excited to try some food.  

I think he looks so cute & handsome in his high chair.  Grant wasn't too happy that someone else was sitting in 'his' chair and using 'his' bowl.  It wasn't as cute to him as it was to us.  :)

And yes, I buzzed Brett's head....again.  This time with a #1 on the clippers.  Now his bald spot in the back completely blends in!  I am so in love with his beautiful big head!

On Monday night we had some friends over for Family Home Evening.  For our activity we created creatures.  We all had a lot of fun, especially the kids.  Everyone started with a blank paper and drew the body of their creature.  Then we passed the paper to the person on our left and added a head.  We kept passing the papers around, adding different things (legs, arms, hair, etc).  Last of all we gave the creature a name, and then we showed off our creations.  It was so fun.

My family did this one year for Thanksgiving (we drew turkeys) and it was hilarious.  We also wrote stories about each turkey creature, writing a line of the story and then passing it around and adding to it.

A new week : I have a problem

Hooray for a new week!  Last week started out kinda rough.  We all got sick.  I think I got it the worst.  But then we all got totally better real fast and were feeling great by Thursday.  It was the quickest illness I think I've ever had.  So now that we're back to whack I'm think'n this week will be a lot better.  We have a well check doctor visit for Brett (4 months baby!), soccer for Grant (he's actually playing now and not crying), a fun family home evening planned with a neighbor, a visit to see our sweet new niece (couldn't see her last week since we were ill), and I think we'll have to through in a hot date on the weekend.  Maybe we'll even go to the zoo.  

I'm loving my new camera.  I'm learning a lot.  But as you can see below, I have a problem.  I take a LOT of pictures.  Like way too many.  But that's because I don't know if they're going to turn out.  I end up deleting MOST of them and keeping a few good ones.  I usually do my practicing on Brett.  I can't resist him.  Sometimes I end up with a whole bunch of pictures that I don't need, but that I can't get rid of.  What if 10 years from now I wish I had the picture of him with the serious look instead of the big smile? So I think that making a collage of all of them together will be the best way to keep them all without keeping them ALL.

A day in the life of Grant

Puzzles.  Cars.  Trucks.  Trains.  Playing with his brother.  Soccer practice.  Making pizza.  Watering plants.  Playing catch with mom.  The list could go on and on.  This boy really knows how to pack his day with lots of fun!

Grant is getting so grown up lately.  I guess it's because he's turning 3 at the end of this month!  He's a fun boy.  He's really good at playing with his brother now.  And Brett can't take his eyes off of him.