Valentine's Party

We had a great time at our Joyschool Valentine's Party. The kids colored, decorated their Valentine's bag, played games, ate snacks, decorated cupcakes... and finally exchanged Valentine's!

I just love these pictures of Sarah. She CRACKS ME UP! She thought she was such a big girl sitting in the chair by herself.

I want that cupcake!

That was YUMMY!

I didn't know how to make this picture any bigger, but here is a lineup of the kids...

And me and my Valentines!

I did get to go out on a date with my other Valentine! It was so nice to get dressed up, enjoy a AWESOME meal and movie... without the girls! Thanks mom for watching the girls.

Making Valentines

Emily hard at work making Valentines... which really just consisted of putting a sticker on each one.

And of course she had to take a break for a photo op... and a smartie!

And then a few more photos...

Superbowl Party

Andy and I weren't really to into the Superbowl this year, but who doesn't love a good reason to party??! We got together with some friends over at the Schoenfelds and had a great time! The food was AWESOME (I could not stop eating it!!) and the company was even better.

Poor Sarah was not happy about being plopped on the couch for pictures, but look how sweet Kaitlyn and Olivia are.... Kaitlyn has her arm around her and Olivia is holding her hand. Awww!

Lindsay got such a cute picture of Emily...I love how sweet and innocent she looks. I will have to look back on this picture when she is acting sassy!

Photo Shoot

Emily loves to play dress up. Every day she puts together some new outfit. On day 4 of being stuck in the house because of the snow, she decided Sarah needed to dress up too. I was trying to get a picture of both of them in her outfits.... obviously Sarah just wanted to get away!

Then Emily started doing different poses and said "Mom, take one like this." I was dying laughing because it was like she was doing a modeling shoot. Some of the poses are quite interesting. And yes, she dresses herself and yes, her shoes are on the wrong feet.

Finally got one of Sarah!

SNOW!!!

The much hyped snow of the year came last week!!!

Emily was so excited about the snow. When it started Friday night, she was running window to window to watch it fall.

Saturday she was anxious to go sledding, have a snowball fight and make snowmen. I think she knew about all these fun things from TV.

However the TV shows failed to let her know that the snow is WET and COLD. We got in a few minutes in the snow and then she was WET and COLD and wanted to go back inside.

Sarah felt the same way --- "Get me back inside!"

Emily was much happier to be inside, back in her pjs and making Valentine's Day cookies!

Day 2 in the snow was a little bit better. Actually we had more ice than snow, so when we were walking we wouldn't even go down in the snow we were just skating across a layer of ice. So I put Sarah in a stroller and just rolled her around on the ice. Fun times!

The big thing in our neighborhood was driving 4 wheelers around in the snow. So Emily got out her tractor so she could fit in. Too bad it didn't work since she couldn't get any traction.


A guy in our neighborhood was pulling his kids on sleds behind his lawn mower. This does look fun, but doesn't it just screamed REDNECK??!

And we actually made it out on the 3rd day too. However it was just for a little bit because it was right before dinner. Emily's crush was outside, so she wanted to go out.

Her crush is our neighbor Hayden. The funny thing is that she really doesn't play with him all that much, but she talks about him ALL THE TIME. He is 7 and "he goes to school." I guess that is the appeal. He is very sweet to her and he let her throw snowballs at him....actually they were balls of ice, so that makes him even sweeter!