What do you do...

when church is canceled and your daughter won't let you play with her hair? You play with your OWN hair :) I used Tater's crimp iron for the first time. I haven't crimped my hair since I was little. Crimping your own hair is hard, by the way. As a side note- I'd much rather play with Tater's hair, but she LOATHES having her hair messed with :(

AND- I can't stop making these stupid little things that I don't know what to do with...
I love the big blue one- it's huge. It would be cute on a skinny person- but let's be honest- everything looks good on skinny people. Sucks to you SKINNY PEOPLE!! Anybody want a stinkin' flower? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

a white Valentine's Day!

If we couldn't get a white Christmas (or even a cold Christmas) we will take the white Valentine's Day we got!! YAY! it is so pretty. AND- I got out of speaking at church 2 times in a row!! I think it is a sign that I am not SUPPOSED to speak! So- since we're not at church this morning I have time to post some pics and hopefully get to making some more Valentine cards- we'll see.

This is what we woke up to Saturday morning!!
This is down our road...It stuck on the road!! There were snowplows out Friday night when we drove to the airport to take Jeebs' rental car back and I laughed OUT LOUD. There wasn't anything at all falling at that point.

This is the only picture I got of Cagey. He has a little cold and so I didn't want him out in it for too long. Tates went down the road to have a snowball fight with the neighbor kids.

Jeebs made a snowman by himself...I had already made Cagey go in. But, once he calmed down I asked him if he wanted to go out and help daddy make a snowman and he said NO. Crazy kid. OH and this is me giving Jeebs' snowman a wet lickery kiss. I called him our Al Gore snowman- he's sad cuz it's snowing!! hehehehe
The Valentine's presents I put together for the kids. We have a Sunday tradition of having microwave popcorn and watching America's funniest home videos. I finally got them some of these cute popcorn tubs for their popcorn for Sundays. I filled them with stuff from the one spot at Target. (Man, that one spot can drag you in. You think- oh it's just a dollar- then you get it home and realize all that stuff is worth about 50 cents!)
We had a white, relaxing Valentine's Day breakfast. I made homemade bagels and hot chocolate. I tried to make the bagels heart shaped- but they rounded out anyway. Jeebs suggested marion berry jam mixed with cream cheese to spread on them and OH it was good! I made cinnamon sugar, poppy seed and plain. I wish I had asiago cheese to put on them- oh how I love asiago cheese bagels!! maybe next time church is canceled :) Happy Valentine's Day!

Projects

I made this cute little valentine garland really quickly last night because I just love a good Valentine project...and those little red poofs are my attempt at making tulle pom poms. They are not the right color red- but I just wanted to try them with tulle I had on hand.

I have also started making some flowers for me, Tates, and my mom (and whoever else wants one) to wear for my brother's wedding. Their colors are hot pink and black- so I am experimenting with the combination on these flowers. I've just made these three so far- whaddaya think?
I wish I could find some cooler black beads for the centers, but all I got is Walmart right now. And you know!!!! My house is a disaster area- but I can't stop making stuff! AND I have to give my talk on Sunday. Ya know the one I got out of a couple of weeks ago because of weather? Yeah- I have to speak this Sunday because Stake Conference was canceled because of weather!! How crazy is that? But as I type this it is snowing snowing snowing outside and I'm wondering if I'll get lucky twice :) Actually, I hope church is NOT canceled because I really need all the time I can get to teach all the songs the Primary kids are supposed to know. OH stress...some reason I cannot focus enough to write this talk. I have to do it tomorrow though... blagh

Happy Valentine's Day!!

This was kind of the idea I was going for with my Valentine cards. But- these were so cute of Cagey I had to post them too :)

Ezra's scrunchy nose

Taylor used to do this face too. He does this all the time. Especially when his daddy has him and he wants me to get him- he'll smile and scrunch up his nose. I think it is hilarious- part of his magical smiles :)

Ezra is going to be famous

When Jeebs went into advertising I told him that he better get our kids into commercials or print ads or SOMETHING!! :) Well, he hasn't delivered. Wednesday I got a call from my chiropractor, which was weird that my chiropractor was calling me, anyway- she wanted to know if she could use pictures of Ezra getting an adjustment in a brochure she was trying to put together for her business. HA! She sounded kind of apprehensive about asking, but I was completely fine with it and excited that my little man was going to be famous! Well, he's gotta start somewhere right? LOL So Monday I am going to take him in for his adjustment/photo shoot. I know it's just a brochure- for a chiropractic business- in New Bern- probably be seen by 50 people- but I'm excited :)

I should be writing my talk...

I have been gathering quotes, scriptures, and stories for my talk on Sunday, but I still don't know what angle I want to approach my subject from. Soooooo, I'm gonna post on my blog :) I have been meaning to post these for a while and now I have finally downloaded them. Cagey started taking karate with Taylor at the first of the year. It is the most hilarious thing. Cagey is a bit of a spazoid. He is getting better at focusing though. I hope karate will help him more with his concentration and coordination.Cagey is so dang sweet. I took Taylor to the dentist on Tuesday to get her first cavity filled. Cagey was pretty jealous that she's gotten to go to the dentist twice and he hasn't gotten to go at all. While we were waiting for Taylor to get done Cagey said, "Mommy, I want a cavity." I told him that he definitely did not want a cavity. Then, I heard Taylor screaming "I WANT MY MOMMY!!" I jumped up and we all went back there to reassure her that everything was okay. She got through it and after a quick trip to Walmart we went home to make lunch. I asked Cagey to ask the blessing and he said in his prayer "please bless Taylor that she won't get any more cavities." I guess after he actually saw Taylor getting her teeth worked on he realized that one does not want cavities :)