valentines

i LOVE valentines day....well and my birthday....and i have never loved them so close together, but i think that i am finally growing up because i don't mind it so much anymore. we had a fantastic valentines weekend and we never stopped celebrating. friday night chris said that he wanted to bring home dinner and i had a pretty good idea of what he was going to do...you see we have a little tradition of eating a papa murphey's heart-shaped pizza for valentines day...and this year was no different...

so saturday was another fun day. we got up and tried to make daddy some breakfast, but before we could get it to him in bed he was coming down the stairs. so we all enjoyed some german pancakes and bacon. yummy... daddy left to get a haircut and mylie, shaylie and i had some plans of our own to get valentines day done. my super wonderful talented friend reni helped me out with some pictures of the girls for a gift for daddy. it was harder to get the girls to smile and look and cooperate then we thought it was going to be. but it turned out we got some great shots... after running around for a bit to get everything finished we went to dinner...we decided to battle the crowds and headed down to brick oven....NO WAIT!!! WAHOO!! it was our lucky day. chris surprised me with some roses, sugar cookies, and well you will have to wait for tomorrow to see what i got for my birthday.... he couldn't wait to give it to me.

sunday was actually valentines day, but it was a super busy day as all sundays are for me. the girls looked so cute, and i didn't get a picture so I will get them in their outfits again and take a picture, but we went to church all together for the first time in weeks... then i had meetings, then we went to a friends to enjoy some cookies. we came home and i got to work on all my preparations... chris put the girls down and went to watch the olympics while i worked. i saw an amazing deal at maceys that if you buy 4 ribeyes, you get a 5lb bag of potatoes, dozen rolls, corn, and a 2 liter all for free....hello.... it was delicious! So chris was supposed to be surprised about the pictures, but saturday night driving home she blurts out "daddy we went to jake and karen's today to take pictures!" we just laughed! i made chris valentine rice krispie treats and chocolate covered oreos... it was an amazing weekend.

Shay loved her bubbles & tooth brushes

Mylie got her bracelets & a big pen