Valentine's Day

Well, I know my title is Valentine's Day, but I don't actually have any pictures from Valentine's Day. We got the kids small boxes of chocolates and a stuffed animal. Grandma sent them some candy, so all in all the kids thought that it was pretty great. I told Glen that I just wanted to do dinner (from a nice restaurant) and not gifts, but he couldn't handle not buying me something, so I ended up with chocolate (which of course I love and thankfully he helped me eat) and some new pajama pants since all of my other ones had been converted into workout pants he decided I could use some new ones. Plus, he knows that I am too cheap to go buy any for myself. We did get dinner, which was nice. We ordered take out from Outback, and he sent me to go pick it up, and when I got home he had nice dishes and the table all set so we didn't eat out of Styrofoam boxes, and he had candles lit and nice music playing. He had it all planned out so that he could do that, and was apparently hoping that I didn't decide I was too cold to go get it myself. So it ended up being a nice dinner (especially since the kids were asleep). So, that was our exciting Valentine's. That is pretty much as good as it gets when you have 5 kids. It was either a babysitter, or dinner, and since we are paying a babysitter in 2 weeks for his awards banquet, we opted for dinner. Elly was super excited that Grandma sent her pajama bottoms that we left at their house at Christmas. She keeps getting the top out and wanting to wear her "cute Christmas jammies", she gets really upset when I have to keep telling her that I don't have all of it. For Activity Days they had a mother-daughter thing. They had dessert (always the best part), stuff to do our nails, and we got to make rose buds out of Hershey kisses and cellophane. Then we wrapped the wire with floral tape. Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not very good at crafts, and my daughter inherited my gift for it. We had quite an adventure trying to do it right. All the other moms were looking at me like I was an idiot, and when we finally finished them they didn't look so great, but we had put so much work into them that we didn't want to eat them. They sat on the counter for a day before Elly snuck off with them and we found the wrappers in her bed. Ashleigh was very happy with her little sister for doing that. I guess it is a good thing she is so cute. The other thing they had us do was like a newly weds game where we had to guess each others favorite things. We didn't do so great at that either, but it was kind of cute. Since I put Aaric and Elly's spotlight answers on here, I figured maybe someone will get a kick out of this too. If not too bad for anyone who takes the time to read it, because I will want it when (assuming I ever get around to it) I make this into a scrap book.

Ashleigh

Favorite Color: Pink (I got that one right)

Favorite Movie: Scooby-Doo (I put Harry Potter)

Favorite Subject: Math and Science (I got that one right)

Favorite Ice cream Flavor: Chocolate and Cookie Dough (I got the cookie dough right)

Favorite Animal: Lion (I put cat so I guess that was kind of right)

Favorite Food: Ice cream (I guessed Pizza)

Favorite Candy Bar: Milky Way (I guessed Reese's)

Favorite Place to Vacation: She put Hawaii (although I'm not sure when she has ever been there, I also got that one wrong, I guessed Washington)

Favorite Restaurant: China Buffet (wrong again, I guessed Texas Roadhouse)

Favorite thing in Spare Time: Playing the Wii (I actually got one right!!!!!)

Do You Play an Instrument: Recorder (at least she thinks its a real instrument)

Would you rather read a book or go shopping: She said read a book (I guessed shopping)

Would you rather sing a song or give a talk: She would rather give a talk (got that one right)

Favorite thing to drink: Root beer (We are talking about kids not to mention we're LDS I got it right by the way)

Favorite Season: Spring (I guessed Summer, apparently she doesn't like having to ride her bike while I run)

Robyn

Favorite Color: Black (just call me Louise. Ashleigh got it right)

Favorite Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean (She guessed the Office which if we had been talking TV shows she would have been right)

Favorite Subject: Chemistry (imagine that!! She got that one right too)

Favorite Ice Cream: Cookie dough (she got that one right)

Favorite Animal: NONE (she got that one right, she did way better than I did)

Favorite Food: Peanut Butter (she said she didn't know)

Favorite Candy Bar: Reeses (she guessed Twix, I like that one too)

Favorite Place to Vacation: Washington (she guessed right on that one)

Favorite Restaurant: Palomino's (she guessed China Buffet)

Favorite thing in Spare Time: Run ( she guessed Play video games, I like to do that too, but considering I only have so much spare time, I have to use it to run, or I don't get to exercise)

Do I Play an Instrument: Piano, and kind of Flute (She put none, which everyone thought was pretty funny since I am the primary Pianist)

Rather read or go shopping: Read (she was right)

Rather sing a song or give a talk: Sing a song (right again. at least when you sing a song you don't have to prepare too much. See its just because I'm lazy)

Favorite Drink: Diet Coke (she got that one right too)

Favorite Season: Fall (she guessed Spring which is pretty close, I just like the seasons when it isn't too hot or cold to run outside)

So now that everyone is bored, of course that is assuming that someone took the time to read that I didn't do so well. You would figure that since I'm the mom and have to know every one's preferences that I would do better, but I guess I failed miserably with that. Of course it would help if their opinions didn't change every other day. After Elly got her "cute Christmas jammies" back she put them on (halfway through the day) and put on some sun glasses and her dress up shoes and came out to the living room to tell Glen and I that she was wearing her Rock Star pajamas. She proceeded to go around the house pretending that she had a microphone singing the chorus to that P!nk so So What. She knew it word for word, the whole thing. The only time she even hears the song is when we are in the car and it is on the radio. It was the funniest thing. She is so dramatic. She had a blanket tied to Jeremiah like a cape and went around calling him "The Mighty Bullfrog". She is something else. I don't even know where she would come up with that one. Kids are funny. We haven't gotten much snow at all this year, but this week we ended up getting like 6 inches or something. The kids were so excited. They decided to go out and build a snowman. They even came inside and asked for a carrot. They told me that they

were all done and ready for a picture of their first snowman of the year. I have to say I laughed when I saw their miniature snowman. Apparently they didn't feel ambitious enough to build a full size one, so we ended up with a table top one. It was pretty cute and they were very proud of themselves. They even found some small sticks from a dead plant in our yard. Jayson and Glen have been working on his first Pinewood derby. They have their race in the next couple of weeks I think. They got it all sanded and shaped and right now they are putting weights into it and are going to put on the first coat of paint. For Glen being sick of scouts he sure has been having fun helping Jayson build this car. He was laughing the other day at that car comercial of the kid building a pinewood derby and his dad told him to just build one that he was proud of. Glen was like hey that is about what all of mine looked like. Of course mine never drove so well and I sure never won. I was just laughing. Now that he is a Dad, he doesn't want his kid to have the dorky car, so he went to the scout store and bought a book on building these things and let Jayson pick out the one that he wanted to make. Of course about the time Glen finished shaping the car, Jayson was flipping back through the book and found one that he liked even better. Glen told him that was just too bad, you can take away wood, but once its gone you can't put it back. Well that about covers my week. Now if only my siblings would update their blogs. "The coolest blog ever" hasn't been updated in like 2 months. It sure most not be all that cool. I guess that makes me the good daughter.