Lots of Love

We celebrated Valentine's a day early because I had to work on the real day. I tried to get a cute picture of the kids.....Kate's feet are supposed to be the "V." I saw an idea like that on pinterest and thought to myself...that would be so cute!!  They had used it with a newborn where you can actually keep their feet in one spot.  A 2 year old doesn't.  But her cheesy smile makes up for it.

 Our Valentine's celebration was awesome complete with a heart shaped papa murphey's pizza, and lots of silly games that we played for family night (all love related).  It was fun.

So I don't know if I'm the only one out there that kind of dreads long holiday weekends.  Don't get me wrong...they are nice not to have to get Rach off to school and the thought that we COULD take a vacation (even though we never do) is an appealing idea.  But I'm always afraid (especially when the weather's crappy) that all they are going to want to do is watch t.v. and follow me around for 4 days.  Oh, did I mention Trav went camping with the scouts for one of the nights?  So we decided to go to the aquarium.  It had been a while since we'd been there.  The pictures never turn out so good in that lighting..... It was really crowded but a nice way to break up the day.

 Always ready to pose for the camera...

 The penguins were swimming all over the place.

  Here's our little cowgirl ready for church.....

 And today has been awesome having the kids home!  Even though they were told to sleep in Josh woke up at 7:20 but they have been playing non-stop.  Luckily today was a pretty nice day so we squirted the snow with colorful water, played with sidewalk chalk, went to kid to kid to buy $40 worth of pants for Rach and Josh (Every pair of pants they own have holes in their knees.  Am I the only one suffering with this?  I swear my kids are the raggyist looking kids.)  Now Kate's napping and they've just been playing.  It's been awesome.  No t.v. no following me around. 

 The monkey wasn't so lucky.... I don't know how Josh managed this one but the monkey is actually standing on his head balanced on the light.  Pretty impressive.

 They also pulled out a monster I had made for Halloween and made him facial features and would make him look as funny as they could.  That was a good hours worth of entertainment.

 And here's one last one for the road.  Man I love this girl but 2 year olds are so bossy.  At her 2 year check-up last Monday her doctor said it was "Almost disturbing" for how well Kate talked.  I hope that's a good thing.  She did tell me last week as I was putting on lipstick that "Mommy's got a red mustache."  What a knucklehead.