Awfully Beautiful

Monday, February 20, 2012

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Cleaning the Church

It was our turn to clean the church! The boys are SUPER good about these kinds of things. Everyone wants to pitch right in and get the job done. They are super good cleaners too!!

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Happy Valentines Day!

Got to love a day to celebrate LOVE!

Good morning to my most favorite people in the entire world!! I love our tradition of making Valentines Breakfast!!!

.... delicious!

The boys had fun putting together their Valentines for their friends. Gar decided to do a toy this year instead of candy. It was a big hit!

Valentine, you make my heart bounce!

Conner's went something like this...... Someone has a CRUSH on you!

Zander made little Super hero Valentines this year.

Have a Super Valentines Day

Niel took me out to celebrate a day of love. He sent me roses to work and told me to bring them home because we would need them for the night. He took me to my old work place, Courtyard at Jamestown, where we passed out roses to as many people as we could find. It was fun to watch the expressions on their faces. They were so happy to get a flower. Then we went to the mall and people watched. We looked for people who were in love..... or hanging out together. It was a super fun night! We even went to Chick-fil-a, which is my favorite! We had a fun time out together!

Monday, February 13, 2012

Birthday Dinner!

We have lots of family members with Birthdays in the month of February. I wish we could get together separately for each birthday, but it didn't turn out that way. So.... we all got together and celebrated with one big event.

Happy birthday to Patrick, Brooke, and Grandpa Dean!

... oh and Happy Anniversary to my Mom and Dad!!! 37 years is something to celebrate!

Friday, February 10, 2012

Lately....

We have been keeping busy with plenty of things (as usual)!

Gar and Zander have been working hard in school. They both have made our family ATEAM activity every week. Way to go boys!!! In order to go on the ATEAM activity, they have to have very good grades. They choose dinner at Pizza Pie Cafe!

Stocky has had many school projects. He completed his science project and also a project on a famous person. He picked Arnold Schwarzenegger as his famous person. He did an excellent job of getting everything done.

Conner had the assignment of putting together a picture of all his favorite things. I thought he was pretty creative. This pretty much describes Conner. I thought this also captured the fun, well - rounded person he is!

Niel has been doing lots of things around the house lately. I have really appreciated all the new, exciting home improvements he have all got to enjoy as a family. Thanks Niel!

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Super Bowl 2012

We had a little family Super Bowl party! This year the Giants and the Patriots were playing each other. Our family was split.... Conner, Garrett, and Stocks were all cheering for The Giants. Niel and Zander were cheering for The Patriots. It was a VERY good game. In the end, the Giants won!

We had plenty of good food to eat!

We even played a fun little game with candy. The boys really liked it!

Zander was super sad his team didn't win. I love it that he is so passionate about football. It made the whole night lots of fun!

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Winter?

There really hasn't been much of a winter season so far this year. The weather has been chilly, but there has been very little snow at all.

We took full advantage of the one very small snow fall we did receive!

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Happy Birthday to Me!

I love my birthday because it means I get to celebrate with my favorite people!

This year I got to celebrate a lot!

First, we had a family get together at WingNuts. We were suppose to sing karaoke but missed it by a couple of hours. We enjoyed each other's company instead!

I took the day off of work and let the kids take a day off from school. This was what I woke up to... YUM! The boys were quite sure what I liked the most so they made both french toast AND breakfast burrito's!!

We went out to lunch at Archibald's and to the fun candy store at Gardner Village! We had planned to go tubing but the when we got to the hill we found out the rain was causing the snow to be sticky instead of icy, so we couldn't tube down the hill. Instead, we came home, jumped in our PJ's and had a lazy day around the house watching our favorite TV shows!

Next, Conner and I went on a date to see Brian Regan. He is my most favorite funny guy. This isn't the show we saw, but he is just so funny!

The next day, yes... this is a 3 day celebration, my awesome cousins and sisters planned a fun night for all of us. We met and ate dinner at Texas Roadhouse!! It was a great night spent with my favorite people!

Another great birthday celebration!

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Basketball

Zander has been keeping busy with Basketball this year! He is SO SUPER excited to be playing! His team are second and first graders playing against third graders. They are actually pretty good and very fun to watch!

Garrett's team was so good last year, they are also playing up. His team is all 4th graders and they are playing against 5th and 6th graders. They are still killing everyone!