Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Sharing the love...

The girls each have their own room but lately Meagan has been sleeping with Jenna and Jenna hasn't minded at all. I love watching them. They have a very sweet relationship. They are truely best friends. I had to snap this photo of them sharing Meagan's i-pod as they fell asleep.

There are many times in my life when I wonder if I am doing anything right as a mom. Then, your kids suprise you with some comment and you know that you must be doing something right. This was one of those times...looking on the dry erase board and seeing this made my day! I have very forgiving kids who teach me as much as I hope I am teaching them.



For Valentine's day I suprised the kids and Dave with a special breakfast and dinner dessert (Dave fixed dinner:-)). On the menu for breakfast; pink, heart-shaped pancakes, honey buns, sausage and chocolate milk. It was so fun for me to put this together. I couldn't wait for them to wake up and see the table and open up their gift bags. They had so much fun. They wouldn't stop saying "thank you". I am blessed to have kids who recognize when I go the extra mile.


This is Berries on a Cloud. This is a tradition that has not happened in our home for about 3 years because every year I have forgotten that it takes 15 hours from start to finish and then it is too late to make (if you wait to the day of). It nearly didn't happen this year but I woke up at 4 am, remembered, jumped out of bed and went to make it so they would have it for dinner that night.





As you can see from the very happy faces...it was well worth it! I love my family!!!!!!!!!!!!




Monday, February 8, 2010

Making blankets, cooking and toothfairy

This is such a cute letter from Jenna to the Toothfairy. It accidently got thrown away when the table was cleared off that night so I told her to write a letter to the toothfairy explaining what happen and that she would understand. I just had to share it on here:-).
Meagan and Jenna LOVE to help out Mom in the kitchen and, most of the time, mom doesn't mind at all. They really enjoy cooking so for Christmas, Santa gave them each this apron and chef's hat in their stockings (gotta love the dollar store;-)).

SO, as some of you know our family theme (if you will) for this year is service. For family night we had Aunt Marge up and we ALL made blankets to give to Primary Childrens Hospital. With all the team work we got 8 made in 2 hours!


Jenna and Mom...



Tyler and Ryan...




Chase, Jenna and Meagan....






Aunt Marge and yes, even Dad:-) They all picked out their own fleece and they really felt accomplished at the end!