Random Sampling of Late

We have taken advantage of the unseasonably warm weather A LOT. The kiddos love going to the park and I feel pretty dang good about my efforts getting them there the past couple weeks.  We get together with my cute friend Mariann and her boys for lunch every Thursday, and for the past 2 weeks, we have picnicked.... in February! Seriously awesome!!

My favorite gamers

Jackson obsession as of late? Skylanders

Family night at Fiiz!!

Texas Roadhouse with the kiddos. With warm bread and perfect steak it makes everyone happy.

 Addie loves her Dad

 I had to go to JoAnn's to get supplies for craft night with my cute and crafty friend Erin. Oh how I ♥ craft night. Enough to take 3 kiddos to JoAnn's. 

Yikes. 

Anyway, I packed them all a little ziploc full of treats.They were gone way too soon.
Dang it!
This is how Addie entertained herself. Apparently she is quite fond of mannequin heads. They kinda freak me out, but she was all over this one.

But look how cute!! So worth it!

 All clean and ready for bed. Is it bad that I love bedtime? After the kiddos were tucked in, Markham and I snuggled in and watched our new favorite show- State of Affairs. Good times!!

Valentine's Day Raclette

We had a super fun Valentine's Day party with some very cute and dear friends from our old ward. The Baums, Webers, Sandbergs, and Nelsons.  I served with the girls in Primary and just ♥ their guts. Such cuties and so much fun. And what's great is their spouses are fun too! 

I love it when that happens!

We had 2 raclette grills going and it kept tripping the breaker! Yikes! Those things apparently take a lot of power! We got it figured out though and plugged one of them into a different circuit. Thank goodness.

YUM! The star of the show! Man oh man, it stinks so good. 

I was super excited to use my new beverage dispenser I got for Christmas!! I LOVE it!!

We had yummy and beautiful desserts!!

 After dinner we played a few rounds of celebrity. It was so funny!!

I'm grateful for awesome friends.

Puppy Love

Adelyn's Valentine

What a good pup. She is so good and patient with the kiddos, and very protective too. 

The Library

We ♥ the library. We love to go and pick out books and find a comfy spot and read. Even Addie has grown quite fond of this. She is learning that she needs to whisper. But usually she jibbers and jabbers and pretends she is reading. It's pretty dang cute. But I am her mom. Others probably want her to learn to whisper faster. We are working on it. 

Wednesday

Today has been busy. We got Jackson off to preschool this morning with his valentines for his party. Didn't send anything for his teacher, Dang it. I need to remember to send something on Friday, she is a sweetie.

We got showered and dressed in record time, wait I haven't showered yet. But I did try and look like I had. Pulled my hair up, layered more mascara on from the day before, Oh man, Way bad that I sleep in my make-up, I know super gross but anyway, we needed to hurry. But Kaity did shower. I changed and dressed Addie, put Kaity's wet hair in a fast braid, let the dog out, put my purse and Addie's shoes by the door, put the dog in her crate and we hopped in the van and headed to Costco. I needed a lot of stuff  and I knew we needed to be very snappy to get back and pick up Jackson by 11:30.

At Costco, we found a decent spot! Hooray! I opened the door to get Addie out and realized I forgot her shoes. Dang it!! In the cart she goes. I had a list and was doing pretty good, of course extra items made there way into the cart. I almost bought the kiddos new Easter outfits. They had tons and tons of cute dresses and suits. But we were in a hurry, Dang it!! so we kept going. We got stopped at a sample table for some kind of energy drink. This woman was good. She almost sold me a $30 box of energy powder.... Hello! This is why Costco is dangerous. After losing track of all time again, we continued on, made our way to the line, realized it was going to be a small fortune. I ran over to the food court and ordered a pepperoni pizza to go. The kids love eating pizza there, but today we were pressed for time. I ran back to the line, unloaded most of the cart. As I expected it was a small fortune.  Stopped and waited for our pizza, it was ready! Kaity and Addie were transfixed by the guy making pizzas through the glass window. We spent too much time there. Man why is it so hard to stay on task today!

We get to the parking lot and I realized we only had 15 minutes to get to Jackson's preschool. I usually plan 25 from Costco. Yikes. I am a frazzled mess. I opened the back of the van and realized the ginormica stroller is in there still from our trip to the park yesterday. Dang it!! I need to get a huge box of diapers, a billion pack of paper towels, wipes, milk, peanut butter, chicken, salmon fillets, etc. etc. etc. and a huge pizza in there somehow. And the clock is ticking, Man oh man, why didn't we hurry more. A guy walks by, sees the back of my crazy mess and seriously said, "Oh man!"

Somehow we made it in record time. Green lights almost the entire way! I might have been a speed demon. I didn't get pulled over. Tender mercy for sure. We pulled in only 4 minutes late.

On the way home we stopped at Fiiz Drinks, a new place that we love. They have an amazing list of super fun drinks. Since Kaity has been off track we have made it a tradition to go every Wednesday- it's double punch day! Booyah!

We get home. I hate this part. I have a van load full of Costco madness, 3 hungry kiddos, a semi- warm pizza, 4 drinks, and a dog who is barking her head off from her crate.  Here we go.

Raced around getting the van unloaded and at least the frozen and cold stuff put away. Left the other stuff just piled up by the door. Kaity helped with Adelyn, got her out of the van and washed her hands, she is an awesome help. I will miss her like crazy when she starts up school again.  I worked on getting the pizza on plates and cutting up Addie's. Meanwhile the kiddos were going for their drinks and I said, wait! Let me get a picture of you cuties and our fun tradition.

We had pizza, I put Addie down for a nap and got the rest of the Costco stash put away. I took a few minutes to post this adorable pic and rant for a few minutes..

Now I must go, the kiddos want help putting their roller blades on. I need to work out, take a shower, do laundry, mop the kitchen floor, and plan and make dinner. Yikes! I hope Addie takes a good nap. Maybe I should have bought that case of energy powder after all because all I want to do is nap with Addie.

#andthedayisstillgoing

"the duck pond"

We went to Jensen Park today and it was beautiful. 

 We had a picnic, fed the ducks, enjoyed the sun and climbed the rocks. 

 Grateful that we took advantage of this today. ♥

January in pictures

January was a long and cold month. Markham was super crazy busy. I bet he clocked 80-90 hours/week for the better part of it. The kiddos and I did our best without him. It always makes me grateful when he starts coming home at 6:30pm again. 

I really can't believe I haven't blogged in a month! That is a long time for me. But ah well, it was a rough few weeks. Here are some cute pics...

Addie is a little princess for sure. She is a girlie girl to the max and is always in the bathroom with me while I do my hair and makeup. She likes to play in my make-up bag. I don't allow this of course but she always wants to "try." She also loves walking around in my heels and wearing my necklaces. 

 Out running errands. 

Jackson takes good care of his little sis. 

 ...If only this little vacuum actually worked. 

 I kept myself busy with a couple projects. This adorable vinyl tree turned out so dang cute. It only took me 6 hours Yikes!!

I also put this up in the Laundry Room and absolutely ♥ it. 

Markham brought this box of chocolates home. It came all the way from Belgium! Every year his friend from Belgium brings a couple boxes when we comes to the office to work.

 It feels so ridiculously luxurious to eat authentic Belgium chocolates. yum.

 This pic just makes me giggle. Especially Addie's little mug.

Off track relaxin'

Kaity has been off track since mid January. It has been fun to have her home more. She of course still has dance, tumbling and activity days. 

 We did a lot of baking this month.

 We always saved a big bag for Markham. 

Little photo opp after a matinee at the Kaysville Theater. Before the movie, we noticed a couple having their engagement photos taken by this door. After we got out of the movie, I thought why not.

Jackson tried to open it and it opened!! It freaked us all out and he hurried and closed it. We giggled. I'm pretty sure it's an empty space, but it was a little eerie though. 

 more baking...

 so focused

 I even did my nails! I am ready for Valentines Day!!

Hooray for February!!