Alex with the Savior

I saw this picture and had to take a second look.  That little boy looks exactly like Alex!  It makes my heart sing and reminds me that even though he throws massive temper tantrums and destroys almost everything, he is also very sweet and loves to be loved.  I love seeing him in the Savior's arms.

Playtime

Megan and Alex were playing so quietly that I got nervous.  I remember how white my kitchen became last time they got all quiet.  When I found them they were having a blast quietly playing with their toys in the front room.  It was so sweet...and a relief.

Date Night

I love Hilary Weeks!!!  I saw her at the first Women's Conference my mother took me to many years ago.  She writes and sings beautiful songs that have to do with the love of the Savior.  She is funny, talented, and a so loving.  I always love seeing her annually at each Women's Conference.

This year for Valentine's Day there was a Date Night being put on by a great Psychiatric that I love to listen to on the radio, Matt Townsend.  He specializes in family relationships.  He came to speak at our Stake for a fireside one night and CJ was there and we both loved his talk.  His special guest for this Date Night was Hilary Weeks!  I couldn't resist it so I asked CJ if he would be my date that night (it was more expensive than we usually spend for each other on Valentine's Day) and we went together.  They were both so funny and spoke so well to our hearts.  After ward Hilary stayed to take pictures and talk with everyone.  She is so sweet and was so nice to us when it was our turn.  

I couldn't wait to get home tonight and show this picture to my girls because they love Hilary as much as I do.  They were so excited for me.

Hilary Weeks

Experiments in Silence

Not experimenting with silence but doing experiments silently, that is what I mean.  

It's been long enough that I can laugh about it now so I thought I would share. Last Saturday Megan and Alexander thought they would conduct an experiment. I should have known something was up when they got silent.  Apparently they wondered how much floor they could cover with an entire 5 lb bag of flour. Together they set out to answer their question.  When I walked in to the kitchen I wanted to cry.  I am proud of myself that I didn't yell because they pretty much covered ALL of our new tile floor with it...you know, the floor with all the dark brown grout! (Sorry, no pics. I didn't think about it at the time.) They had so much flour on the floor that they decided to start throwing it on things other than the floor, like the table, the counter tops, and of course themselves. Oh, and here's the kicker, they accomplished their little experiment in less than 5 minutes.  

Panorama

Playing with the panorama feature on my new iphone I took this picture of the new shelving unit that I put in our front room.  If you look closely you will see our DREAM theme.  

All the places we have the word dream:

*Spelled out with the blocks on the top of the bookshelf.

*Spelled out with the blocks hanging from the corner shelf.

*In gold on the picture hanging on the last hook of the corner shelf.

*A small word plaque that sits in front of the picture of the kids on the corner shelf.

Baby Room

There was a room in our store that was used as an "extras" room holding things like electronics, sports, and any other items I didn't have a place for.  It was never a room that I liked it was just there.  After a while I found a new purpose for that room and I am so glad at how it turned out.  I put up a block to the room with a sign that let customers know it was under construction so they were all curious on what it was changed to.  It was a big project so it took me longer to get it done then I liked (every day it was closed was a day of lost sales) but it was finally opened.

I had so many baby items that they were taking over the other rooms.  I decided to turn the "extras" room in to a "nursery".  It was so cute in there and everyone loved it.  I had fun seeing all the tiny and cute baby clothes.  We need more shelving but for now it is open.