The kids and I started our love day celebrations on Friday by making chocolate heart suckers for friends and cousins. Vince and Aubs had so much fun. They thought it was awesome that we could make our own suckers. But, I think they were more excited to pick out the perfect one to mail to each cousin. Later that day we delivered them to their friends. They were so excited to show what they had made. Aubrey would ring the doorbell, hand them their sucker and valentine and run away without a word. It was funny. Her friends would just stand there confused. We're kind of addicted to making suckers now. We can't wait to do it again. Hopefully all of the cousins got theirs in the mail. I'm sure they were in a few pieces by then but remember it was the thought that counts.
Here are some pictures of the sucker making process. The kids
loved that they could do it themselves.
Some of the finished product. We made soooooo many
suckers, but it was so much fun.
Josh gave me my Valentine early...Redvines and tulips...
because he was going on a scout campout Friday night.
He knows me so well. Chocolate is wasted on me,
but Redvines have a special place in my heart.
Not to mention that I cannot stop eating them.
But, I did manange to have these last a while.
While I was helping Josh get his camping stuff in the car, Marty found the redvines. It was so stinking cute. The first picture is when he realized he was busted. The next picture if when Josh was walking to him to take away the bucket o licorice. He was not happy to have been discovered. I'm sure he would have stayed and munched for hours.
While Josh was gone, we had a mom/kids paaaaarrrrtttty. We ordered pizza, had a picnic in the front room, and watched a movie. We also had a slumber party in the front room. I'm trying really hard to make the ordinary in our house really fun. We had so much fun just relaxing til the wee hours. Good thing the wee hours were 10 pm or else we would have regretted it the next day.
I asked Aubrey why she was sitting like this to eat and she said,
"Because that's how Troy does it on High School Musical 3".
Yes, my daughter is obsessed with HSM and is growing up way too fast
and picking up on way too many things. I'm scared for the future!
When Josh got home the next day, we kicked our Valentines to the kids. I love kicking Valentines to our kids. We pound on the door, ring the door bell a bunch and run through the garage back into the house. They start screaming and run to catch us at the door. They always know it's us, but they still have fun. I wonder how long the excitement will last? Hopefully forever!
We gave the kids tickets to Disney on Ice. I'll post that adventure later.
Josh really loved my Valentine to him. He took a nap with it. :)
Vince was so excited for his track "stuff". He loved that they were Payson colors. He is very excited to start track.
They actually love each other at times.
Aubrey was seranading us with HSM songs.
Marty with his sucker. He loved it...obviously!
Dipping strawberries
What we looked like after eating the dipped strawberries.
As you can see I am really behind on updating my blog, so I have made a goal. I am going to update every other day with the past info. I know it seems pointless to update stuff from a month ago, but I want to remember for myself. So, either bear with me or just catch back up in a few weeks when we are actually current.
Mom, 
Luke and 
So, a few weeks ago he finally found the one he wanted and we bought it. (Yeah, I know, it was after Christmas.) He got a Sig 
On Martin's birthday we took it out for the trial run. Josh had shot one at a shooting range, but not his gun. I'm sure this is exactly what Marty wanted to do for his birthday.
