Brookie the Entreprenuer

 As one of the projects in Mrs. Daniels second grade class Brooke was put into a group and encouraged to build a business.  Candy Cane Friends, Friendship Bracelets was born.  :)  They made bracelets, set prices, and sold customers on their product at their Bazaar.  It was great!  I loved this project.  Daddy was especially proud being business minded himself.  We were happy to support Candy Cane Friends bracelet company. Brooke had so much fun with this project.

We've been really proud of Brooke lately.  She's been learning about setting goals at school and has really taken it to heart.  She sets weekly goals and has been working really hard to keep them..  Usually they are some kind of move for gymnastics.  She is in LOVE with gymnastics and is trying to earn and save money to help put her into a gymnastics class.  She is very talented, although I did finally have to ban somersaulting everywhere she went around the house because it was putting holes in all of her leggings.  She also set a goal of not putting her fingers in her mouth because she has a bad habit of doing so.  Mostly because she constantly has lose teeth lately.  I love that she is taking to heart being a hard worker and setting goals.

Daddies little Angel

This little princess is turning into a bit of a daddies girl.  She crawls to him the second he gets home from work and just wants him to snuggle and hold her.  Sometimes she falls asleep in his lap.  She definitely has daddy wrapped around her little finger.  

A World of White for Mommies Birthday.

 The morning of my 31st birthday we woke up to a world of white.  The school district had called at 5 in the morning letting us know that school was canceled.  The kids celebrated the fact that we were all snowed in.  Craig worked from home.  I took the kids for a ride on the red sled but it didn't last long because it was so terribly cold.  The kind of cold where your eyes start watering and you just want to shelter your face.  After playing in the snow I kind of mopped around our dirty house refusing to clean on my birthday.  What a bum!  I was pretty ornery.  I resented the fact that we didn't get to go do anything fun on my birthday.  Instead I was stuck inside a dirty house that desperately needed to be picked up and cleaned.  I decided I wasn't going to clean on my birthday but I can't really relax when it's dirty either.  Luckily daddy came to the rescue and did the dishes on his lunch break and then picked up the rest of the house after he finished working.  He also braved the weather to go to the store and pick up a German Chocolate Cake for me.  Yay for daddy saving the day!!

Be My Valentine

 Here is Ty just before we drove to Joy school for his Valentines party.  We had fun making these "Out of this World Valentines" for his little friends with a bouncy ball.  Homemade Valentines are so fun.

The rest of the day was a complete blur.  I woke up early to make Brooke a special Valentines lunch with heart shaped Watermelon & strawberries, flower shaped cucumbers and a heart GF toastie with maple sunflower nutbutter.  It was her dream lunch.  As I was making her lunch she told me that today may be one of the best days of her entire life.  I smiled and she continued to explain why ... "I'm using my special pass to bring my American Girl doll to school AND we are wearing matching pink stripes and I get heart hair today and it's my Valentines party and I think my box is going to win the prize for most beautiful and then Kate gets to ride the bus home with me and then we get to drive to Grandpas house."  Yep!  Totally fun.

Jace had opted to stay home from school instead of having to endure watching all the other kids eat tasty treats that he couldn't have.  He told me he actually might cry if he had to go and that melted my heart.  I felt horrible and told him he could stay home and we could do something special instead.  He asked if he could play games on the iPad and I was fine with that ... so that's what he did all day and it was the perfect day for him.

After dropping Brooke, Ty and Daddy off we headed home, put a pork sirloin in the oven, got showered and ready, and finished up daddies Special Gourmet lunch with Rosemary, Thyme pork Sirloin, grilled asparagus, chocolate covered strawberries and chocolate brownie meringues.  He said it was to die for which brightened up my day.  The way to that mans heart is through his stomach.

Ty had a blast at joyschool.  He made a heart necklace out of red noodles, yarn, and paper hearts and he made a heart hat out of a paper plate and paints.  He was happy as can be.

I did a little photo shoot with Jenni.  She did NOT want to cooperate and crawled off the second I put her down.  The view I usually got through my lens was of a blurred bum crawling away. lol!  She did look super adorable though.  

Brooke brought her friend back from school and we packed the car up to get ready to leave for Oklahoma City to see Grandpa & Nani.  We picked dad up as soon as he got off of work and off we drove.  The kids gave Grandpa the biggest snuggles and cuddles when we finally arrived.

There is Beauty All Around

Craig brought home some potted roses a few days before Valentines Day as a ... just because I love you.  Those are the best kind of surprises.  I'm glad that he still remembers that I like potted plants because they last longer, even though I still end up killing them in the end.  When we lived in Arizona I killed a cactus.  That's pretty hard to do.  I need to work on my horticulture skills and green up my thumbs.

School Picture Day

We woke up early today to curl Brookie's hair in ringlets just like we did for the daddy daughter date.  It was school class pictures today and they are the only ones I buy.  Both of my kids looked great!

Bath Time Beauty

I was cleaning the bathrooms today and put Jenni in the tub as a distraction.  She looked so beautiful I couldn't help but snap some pictures.