Fun With Grammy & Papa

My parents came to visit for a week and we have been having LOTS of fun. Mom has helped me get a few things organized better, we've been shopping, going for walks, playing with the kiddos outside and in, cooking, doing yoga videos, and hanging out. The girls just LOVE being with Papa and Grammy and it's been really nice to have them around. Tomorrow we build some shelves in the garage and Tuesday we'll go to the temple. Wednesday they have to leave :( We'll be sad to see them go!!!

Church was really wonderful today. It's so nice to feel the spirit in every meeting. We had ward conference and are blessed with a wonderful stake presidency. They talked about the Family: A Proclamation to the World, Marriage and what a blessed/difficult/important thing it is, and attending the temple.

Some highlights:
-realizing that a wholesome recreational activity can range from just spending time as a family playing games to family reunions to camping to skiing back to doing a puzzle together
-once you get married, you get to spend the rest of your lives just trying to make each other happy
-never participate in something (no matter how harmless it may seem) that could jeopardize the covenants I have made with my wonderful husband
-the more often I attend the temple, the greater a source of healing and power it will be for me

It's been a great Sabbath day!

Poor Ellie!!! (Graphic Photos!)

If you get queasy by gross injuries, probably don't look at these photos!

You do not want to know what this is.....

As best we can tell, she was sitting on a chair and started falling off and tried to catch herself. Ripped the poor little nail clean off. She was so tough! She only cried for about 45 seconds and then she let us bandage it and re-bandage it after her bath without even crying! The whole thing makes me sick to my stomach! Poor little girl!

A Valentine's Recap

For Valentine's Day, I made the girls matching pajama pants and found these really adorable fake glasses at Claire's for a buck.

 They loved it!

 Ben and I have frequently given each other a monkey for Valentine's day. I found this singing couple at the Arc and couldn't resist! "I Got You Babe!"

 Red roses are my favorite! He didn't forget :)

3 Red Roses:

Red Rose=Passionate Love

1 for our past, 1 for our present, 1 for our future

He is so sweet :)

I was going to recreate our first date ELEVEN years ago and make homemade heart shaped hamburgers and french fries (we went to Westside in Boise, ID), but I was a little worn out from our trip to Copper still, so we went to Red Robin instead. It was a lot of fun! Sure love my three Valentines!!!