Happy Valentine's Day!

 I did some last minute decorating for V-day, so when the kids and Joe woke up, they saw this!

 And for dinner, heart-shaped meat loaf.  Nothing says "I love you" like a big hunk of meat!

17 below and sunny!

 Perfect bathing suit weather, right?  Well for Mayzie it is!  Here are MORE pics of her in her many bathing suits.  I love the one above, somehow the bottoms are missing, so she just wears it with undies.

 The statue face (see next post).

 And the big ta-da, in this pic Mayzie is wearing not one, not two, three, or four, but FIVE bathing suits!

Thank you for the daily amusement my sweet Mayz!

Some nice camera shots

 My friend let me borrow her camera, a nice camera, so I played around a bit and got some good shots, mostly of Mina.  She was working on her 100 day project for school in the ones below.  She (well, it was a lot of ME, all her ideas were a bit over the top) decided to make a book with 100 pictures in it.  So, she was drawing up a storm as I was taking these next pictures...

 And some teasing from Pops...

 This next one is of Mayzie's "statue face".  Don't ask me why, but one day she was making a face at me and I asked her, "what is that face?"  She said, "I'm a statue."  Love it!

 And I got an iphone for my semi annual upgrade and it's been a big hit... with the kids!  I think I should send apple this pic and the caption could say, "so easy to use, a 3 year old can figure it out."

 Calvin is by far the one who loves to play games on it.  He woke me up this morning and the first thing he asked was "can I play a game on your phone?"

Pictures up, finally!

A couple weeks ago, I was finally able to hang up our pictures!  I have missed them so much!  I wanted to do some painting first, and we did.  My favorite is this wall in our living room that I did a wall stencil on.  I got the stencil on etsy (from LUGraphics), and it was really easy to use.  The rest of the room is a light turquoise (typical me) and I haven't taken a picture of the whole room yet.  I love seeing the pictures of the kids and our family again, they have been stuck in boxes far too long! 

Here's a pic of the whole wall, before kid pictures.