Ethan is soooo smart, and sooooo funny

I’ve been meaning to post this before I forget. Ethan really got into Groundhog Day this year (mostly because of story hour at the library). On the 5th of February we woke-up to snow. Ethan came into our room and opened the curtains and said, “Look Mom! 6 more weeks of winter.” Then as cute as can be he said, “I Guess the Groundhog was right.” I thought this was pretty good for a 3 year old.

Valentines!

Valentines was so much fun this year. For the kids we celebrated it the night before (for FHE). We had heart shaped pizza and then for the activity I made a scavenger hunt around the house for them to find the treat, which was chocolate covered strawberries. They love scavenger hunts, and are actually pretty good at them. They really thought it was neat that they got chocolate covered strawberries too.

For Valentines day we have heart shaped pancakes, and strawberry milk.










My friend called me up and wanted to do a group date with 4 couples, she wanted to send the men on a scavenger hunt while we sat up dinner. It was a surprise so I had to get James to CB's gas station to meet up with the group, and get their first clue. I set up the perfect lie to get him down there, I told him the van was making a weird noice and they did some work on it and I forgot my purse so I couldn't pay them. Well when he got home I told him I keep forgetting to go pay for the work and asked him to run down there and pay it for me. Of course he says, "Just call them up and pay it over the phone." UGH!

"No, just go down there and pay it."

"I’ll call them if you want."

Me in panic mode, "NO! Just go down there."

"What is it, you know I hate surprises."

The gig is up, "Just go down there, they are waiting for you and you are going to be late."

"I hate this."

"You will love it. I love you bye."

We were really nice. We decided to make it things they really would love. We sent them to the shooting range (the guy at CB's handed them a gun with the clue). Then they went on a geocash with the GPS (I set this one up, I was so proud of myself). Then, they went to the flower shop to get flowers (already paid for) for widows in our wards (the widows loved it, tried to make them stay though). Then they went and played horse (basketball), then to the store to "get a candy bar to describe your wife" he got me a "what-cha-ma-call-it" really James. Then they went to the park and popped balloons for their last clue which sent them to us at the church with a meal.

It was so fun, and he even said he really liked it, and was glad I didn't send him by himself asking random people for clues. It was fun doing a group date too. Thanks Ginger.

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We Have Snowmobiles! And Now They Work!

Yes James bought two broken snowmobiles, and a really nice trailer to go with them. I gave him so much crap about buying them, but in the end they just needed cleaned up and a few parts and now they run great. When it was all said and done it cost a little over 2 thousand, pretty good deal.

We have taken them out several times. The kids love snowmobiling, James LOVES snowmobiling. I like it, it’s fun. We are looking forward to many family trips up to the cabin. We are also looking forward to couples trips up to the cabin.

Basketball

Bryant was old enough to play basketball this year. He really enjoyed it. He liked his team and made some new friends. He liked his coach a lot, who actually was my coach my freshman year. His coach was perfect for him, and treated him really good. I hope next year he has another good experience with it.

Some of the picture are blurry, but I had to post them because I didn’t have a lot of pictures. Of course all the blurry picture are the “action shots”.