Valentine's Day Fun!!

So last weekend after our nephew's party, Tony's parents kindly watched Elizabeth for us while we went to Desert Star. The show was beyond hilarious!! They kept going off script and making each other laugh, or forgetting lines, we were laughing the entire time it was great! It was our alone time for Valentines, after the show we went to Applebees for dessert, it was very nice. Monday which was of course Valentine's Day, was a good day to be Elizabeth! After breakfast I gave her a present from Tony and I, we got her a cute teddy bear (last year on clearance for two bucks), a Snoopy coloring book(out of a dollar bin) and a couple little toys(that were fifty cents on clearance last year) and a little dollar box of chocolates. She LOVED it!! She played with that stuff for a while then we painted in her coloring book, and made her daddy a valentine, then just had fun with stamps and stickers, and the paint. Then I found Charlie Brown's Valentine's Day on Hulu and let her watch on the laptop that while she had her lunch, she actually enjoyed it and watched it! Then she went up to her room for "rest time" as she doesn't really nap anymore, and I attempted to rest myself. That afternoon Ketty took Liz and I to get Elizabeth's haircut. I decided to try a more exaggerated A line bob this time and it turned out absolutely adorable! I LOVE it!! Then we spent some time at the Nester's house as Tony was picking us up there. We went to Hires Big H for dinner as is our tradition, this is the first year we've taken Elizabeth with us but she enjoyed it, and so did we! Elizabeth gave Tony his Valentine, which he of course loved! Then we came home and made Valentine's sugar cookies(the super easy kind you just set on the tray and bake! Tony gave me the sweetest letter which meant a lot to me! It was a really great day!! There are a lot of pics, cause Elizabeth was being so cute and funny! Enjoy!

The past few weeks

So the past few weeks have been kinda bumpy. My blood pressure is not behaving, and Little Guy has his good NSTs and some not so good ones, My OB has had me do a couple in Labor and Delivery but he's always squeaked by. It seems like everything is borderline right now, but we're hanging in there, just a few more weeks to go!! On the 23rd of January our friends from Canada the Robert's came down to send off their first missionary, and they were kind enough to come visit and go to dinner with us. They even brought us delicious Canada goodies, and they gave Elizabeth the cutest sweater ever! She loves it!! They got Devin an adorable outfit too! They are so nice! Elizabeth has not stopped talking about them or Canada since, she goes around singing "Oh Canada!" In the past few weeks we've had a birthday party for my mom and brother, our niece Cassie, and yesterday our nephew Carson's fist birthday party! We took Elizabeth swimming a couple times and she just can't get enough of it! That girl is part fish I swear!! We've made a couple trips to the Library which Elizabeth also loves, book after book after book! We get some movies for her too like Curious George, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Elmo and such as we got rid of cable a while ago and can't get our antenna working. We were amazed at how much we don't miss having tv, we were shocked when we realized how much time we wasted sitting in front of it for no reason, and love all the time we now have to do things that really matter! We do still keep up with some of our favorite sitcoms with Hulu usually just before bed.
Elizabeth is getting so big and growing up so fast! She just hit a growth spurt that has made all her 24 month clothes looking a little short, her shirts at least. That girl is all torso, little leg! She loves to jabber up a storm, and she can remember and relate things like nothing I've seen! She loves to tell you about things that happened in nursery or at nana's house, or while playing with a friend, it just makes us laugh at our little story teller! She really loves her art time as well, everything from coloring to painting to stickers to stamps to play dough she just loves it! It takes up the bulk of our morning.
Oh and we finished Devin's wall and it's so perfect I just love it! Now we just have to fix and sorta big girl up Elizabeth's wall. I'm still working on getting pics of the kids room, but enjoy these ones!