Valentine Fun!

We had a blast last week! It was so much fun and it went by so fast. There are a lot of pictures in this post and we are going to start backwards from Saturday to Wednesday when all the fun Started!

Our Family Valentine Party!

Matt and I had a really fun romantic dinner together after we put the boys to bed! Actually I think they were watching a movie up in our room.

We have some fun traditions for Valentine's Day. The boys get me flowers and I make them each a candy grahm. It's so much fun! I love to be creative and they really like it. The boys favorite part were the fruit by the foot.

Then we get cute matching pj's! Just like Christmas!
In years past they have said something like Captain Heartbreaker or something like that but,this year they said Handsome Just Like Daddy! I thought they were cute!

Friend Valentine Party
My friends threw a cute Valentine Party for the kids. They decorated sugar cookies, played games, ate treats, gave out valentines and had a complete blast! My boys loved it. Thanks so much Monica and Julie for such a fun party!

Laney and Porter ( I think this is Zach's arm) loved dumping the nerds on the floor and eating them!

Tim and Porter eating their Valentine treats!

Monica and Julie made these cute mail boxes for the the Valentine's! Here is Tim with his!

Decorating Sugar cookies!

Annalei

Emma

Eliza, Zach and Max

and Porter! He couldn't wait to decorate he just started eating it right away!

This is our fun musical hot balloon game we tried to play with 3 year olds! It was a blast, I'm so glad that we were able to have such a fun little party!


Valentine's from Mama Hawkes
Mama sent us Valentine's! They were these cute chocolate boxes. We were so excited!

Tim wouldn't let go of it to take a picture of it. See all the hands grabbing after it!
Porter was super excited! He sure has a sweet tooth! I think we all do in this house! We started eating them one at a time like this!

Then we were hooked...Then we couldn't eat them fast enough!

It was a great 5 minutes! We love chocolate!
Mama thank you so much! We love you!

I hope that each of you had a great Valentine's week. It is one of my most very favorite holidays! I just love, LOVE! Everyone deserves to be loved and have the chance of loving someone! I'm so grateful for my family. I love my Valentine's so much! They mean so much to me, I don't know what I would do with out them!

He's Turning 3!!

Timmy is turning 3 next Saturday we are so excited! I wanted to invite all of our close friends and family to our fun under the sea party! I omitted the address off the invitation because I thought that would be scary with our blog not being private! So if you are feeling up to it come on over to our party! Just let me know so I have enough treats, cake and party favors for everyone!:)

We found it!

Our Beautiful Day! We spent so much time outside and loved every minute of it. It was so nice to get some fresh air. He are my cute boys!

I love to bundle! I think I do a pretty good job at it too!

This is me today with 25 days left. Can you believe that it has gone by so fast. Sorry about the not ready no make-up just having fun with my boys look. The nice thing about my boys is they always make me feel loved whether I'm all fixed up or not!

This is Timmy with Merry Moon. Isn't he the cutest! I just love him so much!

Basking in the beautiful sunlight!

When we got home the boys hadn't had enough of the outdoors so they went outside to play. Where did they go first? The garden. I'm sorry to say that this is not chocolate all over their hands and mouths it's dirt. And they aren't wearing pants because they are on the back porch!
I love my boys! Don't you think this picture of Timmy looks a lot like Matt? Porter was posing for the camera! He loves pictures!

Well, Matt found it! Our camera is back and I'm so happy. Okay so that is just going to top the list of what a great day it was. So this is why today was such a great day!

1. It was 64 degrees outside. Such a nice break from the single digits and such! Timmy is so excited to where his shorts and t-shirts outside!

2. I got to take the boys for a walk. I love to go the the forest preserve that we have here in town. It's so peaceful and motivates me so much! I always leave smiling. Especially when I'm with my cute family. Timmy ran .6 miles with Merry it was so cute to see him holding her leash and running to get exercise!

3. I don't have to go grocery shopping for 2 weeks!

4. I have 6 meals that are super yummy in my freezer! All I have to do is heat and serve..... Thanks so much Aubrey for the help!

5. I was able to have FHE and take care of visiting teaching at the same time! :) Love it! For those of you that don't know I am the worlds worst visiting teacher. So it feels good when I actually do it!

6. I made some super yummy peanut butter kiss cookies! I ate 3 with out feeling guilty at all because I walked this morning at lake of the woods!

7. I am editing my blog and checking facebook!

8. Matt found our camera.

9. I didn't have to pay a balance on our credit card!

10. I only have 25 days left! OH, I'm not ready... I have so much to do!

So you see it is a beautiful day!

I'm Back!

Well, I shouldn't lie because I'm not really going to be that faithful at blogging. I will be lucky if it is every 2 weeks and then when the baby comes. Maybe every month. I will try though! It has been so much fun and time has just gone by so fast since we have come home from Utah. Here is a little recap--

We went to the Allstate Sugarbowl in New Orleans, LA. That was a blast and of course we all know the outcome of the AMAZING game!

Then we have just stayed in. I guess "Nesting" has finally hit. I just lay awake some nights thinking of all the projects I want to do. I think of the all the dirty things that need cleaned. So I do them and then I'm down for a couple of days because I'm so tired from laying awake in the middle of the night and cleaning all day.

The boys are growing up so fast. Timmy's new favorite thing to do is sled. He hikes up to the top of the hill himself with his sled and lays on his tummy and there he goes! It's so cute. I can't believe he is so big. Everyday he says more things and speaks clearer. He has some really great stories. He and Porter love to play together and I don't know what they would do with out eachother! He also is working on potty training, almost but still not quite there.

Porter is talking pretty well. He has surprised us and uses about 7 words regularly. Ball, mom, dad, bye, head, uh-oh, and please! He is getting so tall and so big. We love him so much!

Matt is started back to school so we will see him around summertime! I feel bad I was pouting all weekend dreading Tuesday when classes start. But, he ended up staying home for the first 1/2 of the day and taking us sledding. It was so much fun. He is such a wonderful dad! We love him so much!

The baby is definitely growing fast. I only have 44 more days left. I can't complain, this pregnancy has been the best yet. I feel really good and haven't had any problems so far! Usually at this point I'm so ready to have the baby because I'm sick of being pregnant. But, now I just can't wait to have the baby to see how cute he is! I sure love my boys!

Well, hopefully I'll get some pictures up soon! Sorry for the long drought! Have a great day!