Sweetie Pie Pops

The cutest little sweetie pie pops you ever did see!
I found these over at the Best Bites site today. It is such an easy idea. There are even some matching printables to add to the cute factor!

http://www.ourbestbites.com/2011/01/sweetie-pie-pops-plus-hand-pies-pie.html

In the spirit of Valentine's Day

"The more I give to thee, the more I have."
-Juliet

The Happy Home Fairy has been posting all sorts of great little tidbits for valentine's day. Her latest posts are all about romancing our husbands. She's got some fabulous ideas!

http://happyhomefairy.com/2011/01/30/the-25-days-of-love-fun-day-11-romancing-the-happy-hubby-part-1/

http://happyhomefairy.com/2011/01/31/the-25-days-of-love-fun-day-12-romancing-the-happy-hubby-part-2/

Wrap Up

We have had a very enjoyable weekend.
Ty had Friday off so we began our second house hunt. We ended up making an offer on another house. As always we are hoping for the best, but we are a bit guarded because of our previous disappointment. Friday night was a date night for Ty and I. We went to this chicago style italian restaurant. We were celebrating Ty's first real paycheck in a very long time! We had italian cream sodas and way too much bread. After dinner we went to Barnes and Noble for a little reading and comfy chair sitting. I think it is the perfect way to end an evening. On Saturday I ran 5 miles in 40 minutes. I haven't been up to that speed since before I had Max so I was pleased :)
Today we went to church and had a nice chicken supper. The kids and I made Valentine's countdown chains and we are planning on a little movie watching this evening. Ty goes back to work tomorrow, but Max has the day off so I think we will be doing a little more crafting. January has been busy and wonderful and crazy! I am excited for February and hoping we can continue to move along with our plans and goals!

Maybe for Christmas

I have always wanted to give Ty something really fabulous for Christmas. Wouldn't a motorcycle be fun? It's been a while since we have taken a ride on one of these.

Scary Awakening

I usually leave for the gym at 5am so that I can have a quick workout before Ty has to leave for work. This morning I woke up and decided my warm bed was much better than the gym and I went back to sleep. Ty got up and left for work. I was still enjoying dreamland. Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Then the doorbell rang, several times. It was about 6:00. It was my parent's neighbor Cheryl. She had been up working on her computer when she noticed the light on in my car. She looked out the window and saw a hooded man sitting in my car. She thought at first it was Ty. She watched the man walk out of my car and into another car that was waiting. At this point she knew the man was not Ty and called the police. While the police were talking with Cheryl the car she had seen the man get into returned. When the driver noticed the police they tried to get away, but they were caught quickly. Cheryl was able to id the men. My car is being dusted for fingerprints and my GPS is gone. I am glad that was all that was in the car and I am glad that no one was hurt. It is still creepy to know that some strange person was in there and up to no good. I sometimes feel like these are the things that happen to everyone else, and while I know the situation could have been much worse, I feel very unnerved by the whole thing. Hopefully we can get the GPS back, but if not I am sure we will move on!
I think today I will cuddle with the kids, kiss Ty a little more, and eat some chocolate.

Awesome

Free Stuff!

Free Valentine Printables at Kara's Party Idea's!!!

http://karaspartyideas.blogspot.com/2011/01/free-valentines-printables-cards-party.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KarasPartyIdeas+%28kara%27s+party+ideas%29

You will like them you will see...Try them try them!

There is some seriously cute stuff here folks.

Max is going to love these super hero valentines.

And doesn't this card make you all mushy.

Go check it out!

Flowers for me

and you
If you needed a little pretty in your day.

One step forward.......

Yesterday began with some sad news. The house we were on our way to purchasing had been appraised for less than we were going to pay for it. When I say less....I mean $50,000.00 less! Needless to say the buyers are really not interested in dropping the price. This makes no sense to us, but we are walking away. We were sad and discouraged, but good has come out of the situation. We now know that we can afford more house or at least the same quality house. We are planning on starting our search once again this weekend. We have decided that we really like the Beaumont area and we will be looking there exclusively.
We are still moving forward! Ty is loving his job. Max is doing well in school. I continue to feel slightly unsettled, but I am making the most of our situation.

Foiled!

My mom and I spent the day making large batches of rolls for a relief society activity later this week. The rolls were covered in foil while they rising. When we started baking I started making piles of foil. The kids were running all over the place so I started grabbing them and making them little foil hats. Next thing we knew they were pirate hats and Max and Mia started swashbuckling!

Maybe they don't really look like pirate hats, but that's what we were pretending they were.

Max has been in that weird photo face phase for a while, but Mia is now leaning in that direction as well.

Zackary wouldn't keep his hat on his head, but he did join in on the pirate adventure. He found a sword and attacked everyone.

In the meantime we baked up some super yummy rolls!