Happy Valentines Day

We hadn't had any sleepovers since Christmas break, so we invited the Bigs and Middles for a Pizza and game night sleepover on Saturday.  We made homemade pizza for dinner.

Since it was Valentines, some made them in heart shapes, others, just regular.

They were DELICIOUS!!!

We are thinking of opening a pizza shop and calling it Grammy's Girls Pizza.

Then we played Uno and Pit.  It's so fun that these girls are big enough to play games!

For their Valentine, we got them lunch boxes filled with snacks.  They were so excited about them.

For breakfast the next day we made pink heart pancakes, waffles, bacon, and orange julius

Yummy!

They all came to church with me and were VERY NICE.

After church they helped me set the table for our Valentine family dinner.

We had yummy soups, delicious breadsticks, 

and ice cream sundaes for dessert.

Lani, started squirting whipped cream in her mouth,

and everyone had to try it

yummy!!!

Happy Valentines Day!

Mom's birthday

To celebrate Mom's birthday each year, we think of some kind of service we can give to someone.  Mike and I started the day off at the Jordan River temple. Mom and Dad spent several years serving there and LOVED it.

After that, I picked up a dozen balloons, and we met Lani, Dad and Krista and her girls at the cemetery. Most of the cemetery was covered with snow, but not Mom's grave.

We each wrote mom a message and sent it up to her.

Lani and Hailey found this cute flower to put on her grave with some of the balloons.

Krista made this cute doll for a little girl she heard about who is in the hospital with cancer.

I made a soft minkie blanket for that little girl.

It's so nice to think about others and do something for someone else while remembering Mom.  So many of our family did great acts of service on her birthday.

We love and miss you Mom!!!

Fun with grandkids

Friday night Jamie and Jordan went to an MBA Valentine dance so we got Logan for a sleepover.  We met at Jamie and Emily's house to pick up Logan.  Emily had dough for Valentine cookies and let the kids roll them out and cut them into cookies.  They had a lot of fun!

Logan pulled Emily's huge flour bin over and used it as a stool to watch the cookies bake.

We met Lani, Dad and Krista's girls at Arctic Circle for dinner and the kids played for over an hour on the playground!  Logan and Sophie are such cute little buddies.

The next morning, Logan helped me make pancakes.  We made him an airplane one,

 and Opi a snowman one.

After breakfast, it was off to clean the church.  Logan helped clean the windows.

He also dusted the furniture.

His favorite job was shoveling the halls in the church, 

I can proudly say, we have no snow in our halls!

He found the snow shovel in the foyer, and went right to work.

When we got home, we made some bread for one of my friends birthdays.  He LOVES measuring!

The lid to the peanuts reminded him of the robot he has at home that vacuums their floors.   

This robot was vacuuming up all his treats!

Oh how we enjoy having this little guy around.  We are going to miss him so much when he moves to Arizona in a couple of months.  We try to get him every chance we can before he goes.

Katie and Aida turn 7

These two cute little gals had birthdays this week and turned 7.

Hard to believe it's been 7 years since they joined our family.  

I had fun shopping for their birthdays.  Katie wanted clothes.

I got her these cute outfits, and she loved the sweatshirt so much we traded the shirt on the far left

for another sweatshirt, she chose the one with flowers.

 Silly girl modeling one of her birthday outfits.

Aida's birthday was the next day.  Krista invited us for a birthday dinner.

Here's Aida with her fancy birthday cake.  

She told Krista just how she wanted it and what she wanted on it.

She wanted things for her American Girl Doll so we got her a jeep and a camping set.

It's a BOY!

                   On Tuesday, Jamie and Jordan had an ultra sound and found out what their baby was going to be.  The first time we could all get together was Saturday, so they waited until then to tell everyone what they were having.  (They were nice enough to tell us and her parents, that day, but everyone else had to wait until the party!)

She made cupcakes and frosted them pink or blue and we got to choose whether we thought it was a girl or boy.  Almost everyone thought it was a girl.

When they bit into the cupcakes, there was a blue heart in each of them.

Little Parker Gray Cline is due the first part of July, we can't wait!!!!

                               
   

Greatest Snow on Earth TAKE TWO!!!!

Since Jordan and his family had missed sledding last week, he called everyone and arranged to have another trip to the sledding hill.

Logan had fallen asleep on the way, and was still a bit tired, but was a good sport .

The three middles 

The three bigs

Group hug!

Jack was a little unsure about sledding, but went down with his dad and Katie.

These boats are the best in the snow!!!  

Josh has two and we have one and the kids LOVED them!

Cute Kelsi

Down she goes!

Jamie testing out the boat.

Greatest Snow on Earth!

We are so lucky to live in Utah where we get to enjoy all the different seasons of the year!  For the last few years, we haven't had a lot of snow.  This year however, we have had quite a bit and decided to take advantage of it on Saturday.  Krista invited all the grand kids to come to a hill by her house that was just perfect for them.  Even tiny Sophie went down by herself and carried her sled back up by herself.

Josh's family were the only ones that were available to join us, so they brought their blow up boats and away they went!

It was a beautiful day and the kids ended up shedding their coats because they got too warm.