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Kate posing with our attempt at making a snow sculpture. We got so much snow that day that I couldn't resist!

Kate and Kirk making sugar cookies (don't worry the dough they were playing with did not become cookies)

Well, I was just sitting down getting ready to steal a few minutes on the computer to update my blog, when the kids who were up in the kitchen discovered my scriptures that were hanging out on the table. I stopped and listened to them. Kate was pretending to read the scriptures into Kirks ear, and he was repeating what she was saying like he was giving a talk in primary. It was so darling. I think she said something about Jesus, and being nice. Then she just came down and asked me to read her a scripture. I was amazed that a 4 year old would be interested in reading a book with no pictures. Anyways I thought it was sweet. We've had a busy week, I can't believe we are approaching the end of February. Valentines day was fun. It was nice that it fell on a Saturday. We sort of made it into a family day. I played out in the snow with the kids, and then almost burned the house down broiling some steaks. I think our oven got a little too toasty, some grease from the steaks flew up, and the next thing I new, the oven was flaming! Talk about flame broiled. I immediately pulled the steaks out. They were really rare, but that's how I order mine so I didn't mind. Then Dan and I planned to put the kids down, and watch a romantic movie. Ha ha, that was a really ambitious plan. The kids cried and cried so we gave and let them watch it with us. The sappy romance soon put them to sleep so in the end it all worked out. The night before Valentines we made sugar cookies. The kids had a blast frosting them. Kate said "This is just like painting". They turned out really good, we gave them to grandparents, and neighbors. Well I think that's the most recent events going on with the mower gang. Good news, I only have 45 days until my due date. I can't believe it, I've got such a long ways to go, and I'm already so miserably uncomfortable. I just keep telling myself, I'm only going to get bigger, so just brace yourself for a long month and a half. It's really not that bad, but being able to bend over is kinda important when your a Mom, and it's becoming more and more of a challenge. Well that's all for now.

Kate showing her the Valentines she got at school. This year I paid $2.50 for a box of valentines, I thought it was outrageous (come on it's only card stock)! So I went to two other stores in search of something cheaper. To make a long story short, we ended up going back to walmart to purchase the $2.50 ones. Being the cheap mom that I am; I picked up some valentines a few days after valentines day for $0.60. Hopefully that will prevent another valentine's fiasco!

Our traditional Valentines breakfast complete with Pink heart shaped pancakes, sausages, and juice.

Snowy, sick day

Well, just last week I was telling Dan how fortunate we were this year that the kids hadn't gotten sick yet. It was the first year that I didn't get them into the doctor for their flu shots. We've been so well, I hadn't been sick, and the kids have been healthy as horses. Well I guess I spoke to soon. Monday night Kirk started to come down with a fever, and chills. Then this morning Kate woke up and said that her head hurt. I felt it and she was definitely warm too. I gave her some children's Tylenol, and told her she could spend the day in bed and stay in her P.J's. She said " can I watch swan princess in bed too". I figured why not. Watching movies is the only upside to being sick, I'd might as well make it as fun as possible. So I took a picture of the kids in bed watching the movie. Kirk isn't really sick anymore. His fever is gone. He's just taking advantage of the movie perk. Today after I gave Kate the medicine she said "I told you I would get sick, but I didn't even share a drink with Kirk". She was really worried about catching kirk's fever, and I told her she wouldn't get sick as long as she didn't share a drink with him. So much for that theory. It's so hard to keep illness contained to just one person in the family. If anybody has had any success with that please share your secret. If one person gets sick over here we all end up with it. I also took pictures of the kids sleeping on the floor. Kirk is going through this weird phase were he refuses to sleep in his bed. He wants to sleep on Kate's floor every night. I don't think he's slept in his bed for about six months. I'm hoping he out grows it, but I'm actually starting to get a little worried. Maybe once the baby is in his room with him, he'll want to sleep in there. I guess I like to pick my battles, it's not hurting anyone to let him sleep on her floor, so why not. Kate just recently got a sleeping bag from her grandma Black. It's a high school musical one. So she also is sleeping on the floor on the other side of her bed. I had to take a picture, because I think that it's hilarious that their beds take up so much space in their rooms and they don't even use them. And so it is with kids. I've found sometimes it's the simple things that make them the most happy, and they are content with so little, even with sleeping on the floor. Just one more thing, yesterday the kids were coloring pictures and Kirk very proudly lifted up his drawing to show me. I said "oh that is so cute Kirk", he promptly replied "It's not cute mom, It's awesome". I could help but start laughing. Were on earth did he learn the word awesome. It's funny to me that he is already understanding the difference between girly cutesy words, and boyish ones. He really is growing up to be such a cute little guy. Everything with Kirk is exciting. He has so much energy and enthusiasm with everyday little things. I am loving this age that he's in right now.

Last week we were able to attend the Draper Temple open house. Kate was really excited to go. I had told her earlier in day that we would be putting on our very best Sunday clothes to go to heavenly father's special house. Later she got really upset that she couldn't find her "fancy" Sunday shoes. I told her that her nice school shoes would be just fine, but she was still really disappointed about that. We made it down to draper, and I was so impressed with how organized the church was. Everybody was of course volunteering, standing out in the cold directing parking, and assigning buses to shuttle us up. It is a beautiful temple. The kids really enjoyed seeing it. Kirk loved pointing out all of the pictures of Jesus. I'm so grateful that we are sealed together as a family, and that the temple makes it possible to live with each other forever. I love my family, and I was grateful for the experience of walking through that sacred building with the ones I love. If anybody is interested in going to the open house, it is going to last through March (I think, you can still get reservations). check out the churches web site. http://www.lds.org/ to find out more.