COLDS!

I just wanted to say...I am SO VERY READY FOR SPRING!!! I don't think it could get here fast enough! Our whole family has a cold right now and it is HORRIBLE! I hate it! Teniah started it off by bringing home a cough and is pretty much over hers by now. Kierstin and I got ours about the same time. Each day I get better, but Kierstin is feeling pretty bad. She has a runny/snotty nose and a horrible cough! I know she doesn't feel good when she won't even let me put her down or doesn't want to eat! I carried her around the house yesterday for almost an hour before she let me put her down. Each time I tried, she'd cry. Horrible! Robert got it a couple of days ago, but his is mostly just a stuffy/runny nose.

Birthday coming to an end

Today was such a wonderful birthday, if I do say so myself! When I arrived at work, I found a chocolaty chocolate birthday cake! Then I decided that I must have a piece for breakfast. It's not bad...on your birthday! As the day progressed, the weather outside was WONDERFUL today. Sunny, very little wind and only slightly chilly. After I got off work, we went to dinner at Chili's...where I had the yummiest chips and salsa, and basically an appetizer mix. After dinner and a sweet shot for my birthday (cutest little things...really yummy too!) it was off to the cannery for my (and Robert's too) birthday presents...FOOD STORAGE! I have never been to the cannery before and it was very interesting and fun at the same time. I couldn't believe how fast and how much food we got done in just over an hour!

All in all I have had a wonderful birthday, and I have totally forgotten that I am getting closer and closer to 30! hehe

Birthday Card from Indonesia!!

I just had to post this...cause I loved it! My brother sent this to me today! He's the best little brother I could ask for!

Happy V-Day!

We had a fairly quiet and peaceful Valentine's Day. I decked the girls out in pink and red for the occasion (thanks to Grandma for the outfits!) and thought that they looked too cute to not take some pictures!! Teniah loves to be the center of all attention, but what five year old doesn't! She was able to have Grandma come to her Valentine's Party at school on Friday. Oh did she LOVE that! Kierstin has gotten my cheesy genes, and has become quite the little cheeser! I love it when she smiles though, and squints her little eyes and nose and bares all her teeth!

Here are the loves of my life...my three valentines!

It's Groundhog Day!!

Yesterday was Groundhog's Day and I held the first annual Groundhog Day party! I know what you are thinking...a party? for Groundhog's Day? Who has a party for the groundhog? Well, I do! And since I knew that was what all of my friends were thinking...I went all out.

I made cute invitations....

I made Groundhog Cupcakes....

We invited some of our oldest friends and one of our newest friends. And who would have guessed it, that on this holiday no one was out of town or visiting family. hehe We had a pot luck dinner of chili and cornbread, chips and dip, cookies, cupcakes, and root beer floats. We played my new favorite game (Discombobulation), which I don't know why it is really my favorite...I always seem to lose...in one hand I gained 200 points! Then we watched Groundhog Day (of course!)

All in all we had a complete blast! I love my friends, we can be silly and have so much fun! I wouldn't have minded at all to wake up this morning .... (not that I really woke up at 6:00 hehe)

to find out that it was Groundhogs day...again!