Happy Valentine's Day~
David bought me pointe shoes for Valentine's day, but he still decided to surprise me with roses and a card.

Monday night our church held a Valentine's dance. We danced a few songs and snacked on some food. It was a weird night for me.

I've been working on hemming my friend's pants. After a few tries, I got it. I even decided to add a second stitch to make it look more realistic.

Luca got into my Colorstay makeup and looked like he fell down the stairs for several days. He got the mascara mostly right though.

Elsa, Arabela and Luca decided to build with the dominoes. It was so fun watching them come up with different creations. The funny part was catching Luca about to destroy with his hand on film.

Saturday Elsa went to a tea party. She's been invited to several parties this year. It's been quite a social year for her.

Sunday I wore my $7 Ross dress and new pearls my friend bought me for Christmas. I got lots of compliments on "dressing up." I felt like I was dressed like every other day.

Superbowl Sunday at the Campagnas. David hurt his shoulder working out so instead of cleaning out the garage, we went to a friends house to watch the game.

Tuesday are still ballet night. It gets harder every week and my body frustrates me when it won't cooperate with what my heart tells it to do.

Sarah G and I decided to have a Valentine's day party and then Meghann R decided to have one too. So, we scheduled the parties on the same day & time. Older kids to Sarah's, younger to Meghann's.

The younger kids' party was a bit crazy. There wasn't any organization to it and we laughed because none of us realized that the little ones' couldn't read. hehe.

Here is Arabela with her made-in-5-min valentine holder. Brianna was supposed to make it and I realized at 11pm that she never helped Arabela, so I crammed one in.

Brianna was very excited to capture this full moon (?).

With all this sickness and injured body parts, we've been thoroughly enjoying Netflix on the Wii.

Happy Birthday, Bela!

Closeup of the candy table. Strawberries are paper mache eggs that I painted and put "seeds" on with felt greenery too. M&Ms, mints, hershey kisses, candy corn and whoppers.

We made strawberry balloons, pin the strawberry on the cake, and wrapped everything with red streamers to look like candy sticks!

Detailed pics of the food.
I made it all myself.

The tablescape. We used pillow cases to cover the chairs and strawberries to decorate the other chairs. We ran the strawberries through the cuttlebug so they were textured.

Sweet girl is 4! That last candle gave her a hard time.

The girls dressed up like Strawberry shortcake characters.

Tights, shoes and skirts complete my hand made shirts!

This is what we found when Luca was being quiet: Playing Elijah's DS!!

Tuesday was Arabela's birthday and we went to Vikki's to make cookies for her birthday. However, David didn't give Vikki the strawberry cookie cutter, so we had to make heart cookies instead. Arabela got an apron for her gift! She loved it as she makes cookies at Vikki's every time she goes. The package actually arrived while we were there.

Here she is, rolling, cutting and placing on the cookie sheet. Vikki lets her do it all and doesn't even correct her mistakes, she just tries to teach her and then lets her go. Arabela loves it. Who wouldn't?

And of course Vikki had to let Luca play too. He rubbed in everywhere including his head.

This week was spent as stressful as usual; trying to cram everything in for the party including hand sewing the girls outfits, painting letters, hand decorating cookies, etc. OY!

Saturday was Arabela's birthday party!
These letters were made by me! They usually sell for at least $5 a letter, but I bought 50% off paper mache and painted them for 75c a letter!! The white baskets are usually $1 each, but I got 3 for a $1 at Target's Dollar spot. LOVE THE DEALS!~

I was supposed to have a coffee party hosted by Coffee mate, but it was canceled, so I took everything to a baby shower Saturday night and gave out the "free creamer" coupons.

David and I got to run off for a few hours this week and we went to the mall. Here I am trying to capture a pic of us walking, it was hard, so I cheated and took a pic of us standing still.

Tuesday Luca and Elijah went to the dr. Both are good and both got shots. Luca is 20% for weight and 90% for height. Luca says HI, BYE, BITE, PLEASE, MORE, NOSE, EYE, HAIR, EXCUSE ME--"do me," NO, YES, I LOVE YOU--"I la lou," NIGHT NIGHT, BRIANNA--"na na," ELIJAH --"Lie-ah," SPONGE BOB--"bah bob," COOKIE--"cook cook," GUM (anything in a pill box), PUPPY, CAR, OUTSIDE--"ow sye," THAT--"dat," BABY, SOCKS--"sas," SHOES, MOVE, and I don't know what else? He surprises us daily.

Elsa hurt her back so Arabela rushed to her rescue and held a home made ice pack on her, proudly.

Thursday I woke up to go to a prayer meeting and couldn't find my rings. I quickly remembered that I had cleaned them and left them in a paper towel. It didn't take long to realize that the paper towel was thrown away. So, I got the trash out side and dug my rings out! They were still wrapped in a paper towel and thank GOD that it wasn't trash day.

Friday Brianna went to a slumber/birthday party! I went to scrapbook with friends.

Saturday was Brande's baby shower. David was working. After a nap, Brande invited us and the Summers over for games. We played Catch Phrase.

Here is Arabela proudly displaying how she draws "Me and Mommy." Notice our pig noses. She talks as she draws, like, "Now the feet. Here's the eyes."

Yeah, Mondays are baaaaack! I spent way-too-many hours catching up on my blog, but it's done!

David got me a new photo that has internet capabilities so that I can check stuff on ebay while yard sale-n. So far, I like it and have gotten used to the touch screen.

Luca feeding himself. We kept laughing at this. The kids were at AWANA, so it was just David and Luca with me. Notice the spoon in his LEFT hand?

I purposefully got this shot to be the contrasted. I love the outline. Elijah pushed Luca back and forth, repeat, repeat again. I will only get a short glimpse of them as they passed through the couches. That a toy doll stroller Luca is in.

Luca tried Dark chocolate for the first time and obviously spit it out, all over David.

Luca is at it again. His new trend is climbing upon things and making huge messes.

Arabela is so proud she can write her name now. She learned by copying. I asked her who taught her and she said, "Nobody, I just know. I finkted it myself."

Just some inspiration for us all. I don't even want to know what I weigh after hurting my back this week.

Monday we woke up to about 6 inches of snow. YAY! The kids were out of school for the entire week and David barely worked on Friday.

You might be a redneck if you let your kids build their own "fort" in your backyard using big plastic pieces and spare wood.

I love my yard. We have this HUGE hill that the kids rode down over and over again.

Once we could leave the house, I got Brianna's eyebrows done. They've been acting crazy and I wanted them shaped so that I could maintain them. Aren't they great?

Friday I pulled my back and was in bed for the entire weekend.
Thank goodness ELijah's party was at the Bowling alley!
Elijah won all the games and even got a strike!

Brianna made a collage, completely unprovoked. LOVE IT~!