Other Valentine's holiday fun

Just thought I could post some more Valentine's photos. The kids and I joined the extended family at the annual Valentine's dinner. Seth was counseling up in Salt Lake, we really miss him during fun times like this. 

Scarlett posing with the infamous Waldorf Cake! Yum. 

 Louis & aunt Kara, uncleGarrett & Brooke

 Scarlett with sweet Uncle Devry

 Scarlett posing with our fun Valentine's. candy, animals, temporary tattoos. fun, fun, fun.

 Lincoln will not just sit in a shopping cart anymore, the good days are over.

 Lincoln & Scarlett scored $20 from gma/pa Burke to buy their own Valentine's! Scarlett chose some pink gum and a new princess tea set. Don't we have enough tea sets yet? Is it possible to have too many tea sets?

Lincoln & Scarlett also each got mail from Iowa! Gma and pa Hartley sent some fun coloring pages and cute homemade Valentine's, so thoughtful.

I really love this photo of Lincoln!

Bad Dreams

Not a very positive title, but when Scarlett and I woke up and simultaneously walked out of our bedrooms at the same time this morning she looked nervous. She said she had a bad dream. There was a fire in her room, and she was in there with a lot of "good and bad animals". Poor thing, She didn't have anything else to say about it, but it sounds quite terrible.

I had a dream that my phone's screen shattered. I tried fitting the large thick pieces back together. Dreams feel so real, and can be so realistic when you are in them.  However, when you wake up from a bad one it's quite a relief when you realize just how unrealistic it was.

Both Scarlett and Lincoln would sometimes cry out in the middle of the night when they were newborn/infants. A sad/scared/in pain cry. But it would just be one cry, and while they were in the middle of what seemed to be a deep sleep.

On a brighter note, in this random documenting/journal post....

Tomorrow Scarlett is going to hand out some birthday invitations! She turns 4 on March 3rd. She has had two consistent requests for her party 1. it be an owl theme and 2. she wants a chocolate cake! She also only wants girls at her party. We are going to have it be a "drop off" party, so the parents aren't expected to stay. First time doing that, it will be a fun time!

I always enjoy creating Scarlett and Lincoln's Birthday invites, but I really have no idea what I'm doing! Which creates some frustrating long hours over something that seems so minimal only after it's done.  I can't wait for Seth to be done with his in
ternship, I want to sign up for a photoshop class. Then I can really learn how to work that program!!

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8, Eight posts for 2013. That is terrible. My goal for 2014 - write at least 9 posts.

2014 has treated us very well so far. And with the warmer weather lately, and the rain that melted all the nasty snow - 2014 is looking a lot better too! I'm sure it will snow again though, which would make Seth pretty happy.

Valentine's Day was a success! It started with pink heart pancakes and yummy juice for breakfast. The kids and I were going to go surprise Seth at work with the annual (embarrassing) balloon bouquet. But - he decided to come home early. So that was initially a bummer, but obviously quickly became the best thing ever.

 We drove around the neighborhood and delivered Valentine's to some good friends in the ward. Then we drove out to PG and heart attacked my grandparents (Gigi and Gigpa). Scarlett was very confused when I told her we were going to "heart attack" it. She felt it was going to be a mean thing, for us to attack them. But she loved it, and says "Remember when we heart attacked gigi?"

 

We went to drop some Valentine's off to friends in Lehi and ended up staying there for the evening. Scarlett loved playing with the kids and we got to enjoy a few games with just adults! Quite an enjoyable time.

Yesterday was the most productive day we have had all year! I worked 4 1/2 hours, Seth changed the rear brakes, I ran lots of errands/shopping, we painted a wall that has had paint scraped off it since last August (!!!!) We filled holes, sanded it, washed it, bonding primed it, and put two coats of paint on it. (I'm pretty much the happiest person in the world because that finally got done) Sad thing is - it was so easy, really should have done it months ago. We also put hardware on our kitchen cupboards.
We enjoyed watching Ender's Game to finish the great day off.

Today was Ward Conference. After church we had friend's over for dinner, the Topham's, and the girls had great fun playing together again. We even fit the bouncy house in a basement room so the kids were well entertained. One of the best things about company coming over is the house gets cleaned well. (:



Seth has tomorrow off, so we have another free day. Since Saturday was so productive, we will have to do something fun!