Love looong weekends!

Happy President's Day!

yesterday...

No, we didn't go to Mt. Rushmore over the long weekend.

Mt. Rushmore was our last stop on our family vacation roadtrip in the summer.
A great story lies behind this mountain.
Beautiful place.
So glad we stopped.
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On Sunday night, we had our Family Home Evening Lesson on President's Day.
Go here to find out more about Family Home Evening.
Go here to see the lesson I got some great information from.
Including an entertaining Presidential Fun Facts 2 minute video.
We watched it a couple of times.
I'm so lucky to live in this great country.
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On Monday morning, we packed up all of our sleds, tubes, and snow gear and headed up to
Cub River.
A dear high school friend lives there and invited us up for some snow fun.
This is my favorite picture of the day...
ok, just one of them.

Does that scream happiness or what?

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Our little miss all bundled up
in snow bibs that are 2 sizes too big
and snow shoes that are 4 sizes too big.
She doesn't mind one bit.



The Mr. even surprised us by taking the day off to go on our adventure with us.


Ali is not a fan of sledding!



Meet Rhino.
Rhino pulled the kids on the sled.
Lots of giggles and squeals!



The adults went on a snow shoe adventure.

Two of my dearest high school friends!

Many beautiful sights.

Untouched snow is one of my favorite sights to see.

A little joy ride after digging Rhino out of the snow.

The beautiful sunset we enjoyed on our journey home.

A FuN and eXhAuStInG day!

All Hearts

I'm sitting here, sipping my gingerbread steamer, steaming at Blogger.

It's being slow.

Very slow.

Sometimes would not upload my photos.

Uploaded some photos sideways.

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Oh, well.

It's a minor thing in life, right!?

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Valentine's morning, I woke up to this....

For breakfast, we ate hearts.
The juice was a special breakfast treat.
It was YUM-O!


This is Aliyah's pancake.

She's already diggin' out the good stuff.



I had a little buddy stay home with me on Heart Day.
He had a fever.
Sadly, he missed his first school Valentine's party.
Minus preschool that is.
Interesting side note.....
Parker also was sick on Valentine's Day his kindergarten year.



Luckily, one of Dyl's friends dropped off his class goodies for him.
As you can imagine, he was very excited.


We dined in.
Homestyle Cafe Rio by candlelight.

Hearts that jiggle.

Molten chocolate cake

with vanilla bean ice cream

and strawberry syrup.

Hearts that are cold as ice.

Love in a breadstick.

Next up, was a game of Hullaballo.

If you don't have this game,

you really need it.

Although, you may have to protect your precious children

from getting squashed by their father.

I gave Rob the best Oakley goggles!

What's that?

You say it looks a little girlie?

Well, actually, yes, yes it does.

Because 6pm.com sent me the wrong one!!

Sadly, I discovered it when Rob OPENED his gift.

Don't you think Rob can pull off purple with rose vines?

The roses actually kind of look like skulls.

Don't you think?

Too bad I'm not a skiier.

I really like them.
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BUT

not as much as I like this!
My gift from Roberto.

Isn't it precious!

My children's name in an eternal circle

complete with birthstones.

LOVE.

Parker made his ma and pa some sweet Valentine's.

I really like P Diddy's tender side.

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I did 7 days of Valentine's for my family.

Each day they would find in a little gold box

a treat

and a little love note from me.

Tonight, as Parker was going to bed, he asked me if I was going to do

7 days of Valentines next year.

I said

"SURE!"

Then he asked,

"Can you do 14 days of Valentines instead?"

Throw Back Thursday

Check out these pics I rediscovered from January of 2010....

Thank you, Discover!

Donigan Lobster Fest

We used our cash back bonus to send for live lobsters.
Dyl says, "No, thanks!"

This is what our mini Ali thought of the whole thing.


How stinkin' cute is she!?


Yes, apparently we even made cheese biscuits to get the whole experience in...

The kids were troopers at digging out their own meat.

What a mess!

Yes, even Dyl decided to give it a go!

And yes those are Christmas cards still on my wall...


Good morning, Sunshine!

No it is not a nightmare.

That really is a real dead lobster right in front of your face.

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My conclusion:

Love lobster.

Love seafood.

Do not love digging out my seafood out of dead carcasses.

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Hope you enjoyed Throw Back Thursday as much as I did!