I am Loved

Ever since my kids could eat solid foods I made heart pancakes for breakfast for Valentines day. I would always put a note in there lunch with a special treat, and a little box of chocolates. This year it was on a Saturday, so no note in there lunches with a special treat. I did make them our annual heart pancake breakfast. My hearts did not turn out as great this year, but I was in a hurry because I had a Stake Young Women's Leadership meeting in the morning from 10 to 12.

We had some extra special kids with us on Valentines day morning. Who enjoyed our tradition. Jessica and Hunter are not in this picture, because they were just getting up.

I left that morning in such a hurry I did not have time to clean anything up and left my house a mess. I wished everyone a Happy Valentines day and left for my meeting, which was 30 minutes away. When I got home I was really wishing that my family would have cleaned up the huge mess I had made from that morning. This is what I encountered when I came home:

This beautiful note on the back door inviting me:

It immediately put a smile on my face. I walked into the house and it was immaculately clean and the table was set just like this. A peach rose from each on of my kids and white roses from Doug, with a special note/card from each of my children and a love letter from my husband.

With a dinner Menu of what they were going to serve that evening for dinner. I had to wait in the other room till they were finished and they called me into dinner and this is what the table looked like. I wish I would have taken one with all of the kids sitting down. Doug made it all. It was heavenly, and plenty left for the next day and it was just as good the second day. Thank you Doug, Jessica, Hunter, Spencer, & Taylor for making me feel so loved.

I love you!

Happy Birthday Spencer

Doodlebug, Little Man, Spencer Doodle,

The Lucky Toad, Supermandebale, Tooter Frooter, Ratsicle, Rat Baby,

The Toad Miaster, Oh dear fat one.

You are the only one in the family that has so many nicknames. We love you so

very much. It seems just like yesterday that you were born.

Happy 10th Birthday!

I kept asking you what you would like for your birthday and you could not come

up with anything for weeks. You love, love, love games. Any kind

of games whether it be board games, video games, outside games, or card games.

You just LOVE games and you are good at them too.

Happy Valentine's Day

I love you!

Jessica has her license

Jessica got her license on Friday February 6th. We waited forever at the DMV. We showed up at 9am and she tested and passed at 11:45am, but we did not get out of there until 1:15p.m. Can you say CRAZY? The state of Georgia is ridiculous on all of there little rules. We had to have the following for her to get her license:

1-13 pages of me signing off that she is satisfactory in checking the tires, parallel parking,

switching lanes etc, etc, you get my drift.

1 -30 hour driving course taken online certificate

1- ADAP certificate( Alcohol and Drug awareness class she took in health)

1-School attendance certificate notarized by the High School she attends.

1-40 hour tracking sheet that she drove for 40 hours with my signature and notarized

$10 for the license

We had all of the documents, but being there so long and be shuffled from one counter to another four different times, they lost one of the pages. I just filled out another one right there on the spot. I thought for sure they were going to make me stand in line again for some dumb reason. She did a great job and passed with flying colors.

On Saturday Doug, Spencer and I were sick (and still are) so I had Jessica run to the store for a few things all by herself (well she took Hunter and Taylor), but she was the licensed driver. Later that day she took Hunter and Taylor to there friends houses and picked them up too. It was nice to have another driver in the house who could run errands for us. Doug and I were nervous, but had confidence in her. She is growing up to fast and will soon be graduating High School and off to college. It is a bitter-sweet thing in my life to have a daughter who is now driving and out on her own in the world.

Wii Fit

We got the kids a Wii for Christmas this year. I asked for Wii fit for me. Doug and I could not find one anywhere. They were sold out everywhere, even online we could not find one. There were people who were selling them for outrageous prices and I was not going to pay for their craziness. I decided I could wait till the stores received them back in. I have looked since before Christmas. TODAY I was successful at blockbuster of all places. They had one and at a normal price, they did not jack up the price. They are still sold out everywhere here and I was able to get one by luck. I set it up and it gives you a pretty good workout. I am sore already. My kids have been playing it for the last four hours. I think it will be a good investment for all of our family's health not just mine. It has been so cold here that they have not been able to go outside for even recess. Well here goes to a new adventure in exercise. Wish me luck.