Valentines Day

Todd was out of town for Valentines Day this year. BOO! Oh how I missed my valentine! But, instead of being sad and moping around all day I decided to have a party for the kids. After all it is a holiday all about showing love and I love love love my kiddos. So I bought heart shaped pizza which came with a very delicious S'more dessert pizza, made chocolate dipped strawberries and red kool-aid and we had a party. I bought valentine plates, napkins, fancy cups, confetti, Hershey kisses, cards and presents for all the kiddos and then lit the candles for our awesome dinner.





The kids had so much fun eating by candle light and Luke even said "mom - this is the BEST Valentine ever!" I'm sure that will change once he starts liking girls...but for now I'm glad that his mom can give him the best v-day ever. I kept trying to give the boys kisses and they would run away - hilarious.

During dinner I sent a picture to Todd telling him how much we missed him and he sent me back a picture of his lean cuisine that he was eating in his hotel room. Sad. Of course thanks to weight watchers I too had a lean cuisine while the kids ate the pizza.

On a side note: When Todd and I were doing the boys school valentines we laughed so dang hard. They are so silly and they always tease each other. One of them would tease the other one about one of the girls in their class and then they would deny it. Hilarious. Tayson even asked Luke if he wanted to "make out" with so-and-so. Ha. Of course we asked him if he knew what that meant and he said no - what a silly boy. I sure hope that they keep doing this when they are teenagers so I always know what's going on in their lives.

Harry Potter

Last year Todd talked the boys into earning money and buying a turtle. Sounded like a great idea at the time. It was pretty expensive ($100 not including the lights, bark, etc) but the boys had enough cash so they all went to the pet store and bought a Russian Tortoise and named him Harry Potter. We lost him once when he escaped in the backyard during FHE but found him a few days later at a neighbors house. We had him in an old fish tank and he never did anything until we put him in a wooden box - and he has blossomed ever since. Sophie loves her turtle and likes to bury him in the bark and sometimes put his food or water bowl on top of him. She loved it when I would give her veggies to put in his cage.

When Todd put the fish tank up for sale he put the turtle up for sale too. We got an offer from a breeder but didn't know if he was a boy or girl ... HA! Then the guy who bought our fish tank said he wife loved the turtle and he ended up buying it the same day he took the fish tank. Not a bad day's work. When he was carrying the cage out to his car Sophie was following him saying "turtle...turtle...." it was hilarious. We are now a 1 pet family - and no we are NOT selling Shadow.

Happy Valentines to Me

Todd bought tickets to see Spamalot a few months ago for our Valentine's date. We love going to the theater so it was the perfect date. Steve & Christine and Jeannie & Trent came with us too. We went to dinner before, to the play then to get desert after. It was so much fun. I love that Todd enjoys going to the theater as much as I do and I always love getting dressed up and going on a big date. I'm sad that this Valentine's day he won't be home (first time ever for us) but we had so much fun I keep reminding myself that the 14th is just a date on the calendar. I sure do love Todd and everyday I am so glad that he married me. He truly is the perfect match for me.

Facebook Friday

Just finished a great night of bowling with my Ragnar girls. I LOVE it!! (Thursday 2/10)

Today is my grandma Jean's 97 birthday! It look likes her daily 1 mile swim is still paying off. She is amazing!!! (Wednesday 2/9)

Just hit the 100 mile mark. Only 900 left to go and I have 10 1/2 months to get there. (Wednesday 2/9)

For some reason I don't feel right using my weekly points. I'm ok going into activity points but feel like my weekly points are there only for major emergencies. (Tuesday 2/8)

I'm starving and don't feel like cooking. (Tuesday 2/8)

Temple and dinner for our date. I'm a lucky girl. (Saturday 2/5)

Girls Night - Bowling

For our monthly Ragnar meeting we went bowling. Just for the record I don't like bowling very much....I suck at it and I hate sucking at stuff. Todd has always tried to get me to embrace the game, but I just can't do it. We take our kids all the time but I usually just watch. Well it was evident in our first game that I suck at bowling. I started the game with 4 gutter balls - UGH! But then I finally started warming up and by the second game I did ok and didn't bring my team (Van #1) down much. All in all the night was a blast - which just goes to show no matter what we're doing if I'm with my crazy fun running friends it will be awesome!

Jill started the night off with a bang!

Van 2
Melissa, Steph, Jen, Gretchen and Jill

Van 1's rocker - Lisa's pants are too funny!

The overall winners .... Van 1
Lisa, Gina, Laurie, Me & Traci

Superbowl Sunday

We don't watch football, we don't play football but we love the Superbowl. It's fun to have a party and it's fun to watch the game. This year Todd and I started weight watchers the week before so I had to figure out how to have a party and still manage my points. I spent a lot of time on the WW website planning and finding healthy options. I made homemade peanut butter dip, salsa, 7-layer bean dip and a sausage and pepper pasta. My mom and Christine both brought healthy soups too. It was delicious, I ate until I hurt and I still kept within my points. YIPPEE!

Facebook Friday

Friday nights are not what they used to be...leftovers, kids watching a movie and me in my comfy clothes playing on facebook. I need a life. (6:34 pm Friday 2/4)

Weight watchers week 1 update: lost 3.9 pounds and ran 23 miles last week. Boo yah. (7:13 am Friday 2/4)

Tonight is an everyone is sick, put on your jammies and watch a movie at 6:30 kinda night. (6:32 Thursday 2/3)

Parent teacher conferences are over. Luke's teacher couldn't praise him enough (and he wasn't even there since he's sick). The best part was that Tayson had a good one. First time ever -including kindergarten. :) (5:26 Wednesday 2/2)

My poor sweet Luke is so sick. He has been asleep most of the day. I hate it when my kiddos don't feel good. (9:45 pm Tuesday 2/1)

I got a new computer yesterday. But in the process lost my blog book since I hadn't uploaded it yet. UGH UGH UGH! (11:44 am Tuesday 2/1)

First group training run of 2011. Watch out Ragnar. Here we come. (Saturday 1/28)