At the Lake

We went to visit my parents this weekend! The weather was PERFECT for being outside. Josh worked on his truck most of the day Saturday so Nomi and Alex played outside while I got ready then we ran a few errands. That afternoon my Aunt Pam, Uncle Jaime, Mallory, Donna and Mark came over for dinner. My mom also had Savannah come over so Alex would have someone to play with. They had soo much fun together! We cooked hot dogs on the fire then made smores! The next day we stayed in our jammies most of the day then went to a late lunch early dinner before heading home. My baby girl was exhausted from the weekend and thankfully went to sleep in the car and barely made a peep when we got home at 11 and put her in bed. I think Cooper may have had the best time of all! Saturday we left the doors open so Cooper roamed around most of the day. He had soo much fun playing, exploring and lounging!

Daddy/Daughter Date Night

Alex and Josh had a date night tonight! Alex has been talking about it all week long. She picked out her dress 2 days ago and asked me countless times today if it was clean. They went to Chickfila for a Daddy/Daughter event they were hosting. Alex and Josh had a 6:00 reservation. They had table service with printed menus, flowers and a stuffed cow for each girl and supplies for the Dads to make candy necklaces for the girls. There was a photographer on site taking pics so as soon as she post them, I'll add a few! When their date was over, they picked me up and we went to Red Mango for ice cream!

Valentine's Day

We had so much fun today! Before we left for gymnastics I hung some pendants we made that say "we love you." Alex had soo much fun handing out Valentine's to her gymnastics friends. After a trip to the grocery store we headed home to start preparing our Valentine's Day dinner. I always make a special dinner at home instead of us going out. This year our menu was a mix of easy (salad and rolls) and more time consuming (Coq au Vin and Red Velvet Napoleons.) Both were sooo good! At Alex's request our red velvet ended up being pink velvet with pink cream cheese icing. Alex helped make the cake and icing from scratch then I started the Coq au Vin while she was napping.

Josh and I agreed that we weren't doing gifts, but this weekend we picked up a few things we decided were our gifts! I picked a Le Creuset stainless steel steamer insert for my 5.5 quart french oven, Josh got some jeans and our "us" gift was a Le Creuset 11.75 inch iron handled skillet. Yes, we are soo romantic! Haha! Since I have picked the color of all of my current Le Creuset pieces, I let Josh pick this time and he selected a deep blue. I LOVE LOVE LOVE all my pieces and LOVE that they are all different colors. I'm not sure what item I'll get next, but I whatever it is it will be in the kiwi green because it's just a fun bright color!

Even though we didn't surprise each other with gifts, we still got stuff for Alex. She got her Minnie Mouse movie last week and she has been asking for sparkles to decorate her craft projects with so Josh got a sheets of sparkles, glittered letters and rhinestone hearts. She made Josh a card last week and while I was gone Saturday, she gave it to Josh. He told her he wasn't supposed to have it until today so she gave it (back) to him first thing this morning! We had the best day!

Happy Valentine's Day

This is the only way I can figure out how to share this, but it's our Valentine's Day card we sent out!

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Valentine's Projects!

Alex has been asking to make crowns lately. In honor of Valentine's Day, we all made Valentine's crowns/headbands today! Since Alex has been on a Mickey kick lately, she covered hers in Mickey Mouse stickers and asked me to write Mickey's Clubhouse, Minnie and Daisy on her hearts! When we were done, we had a dance party! I have to brag about Josh, he knows all the words to the Beauty and the Beast songs since we listen to them about 500x a day! I guess it's part of being the daddy of a girly girl!

Cookie Party!

Friday afternoon we went to a cookie decorating party! Candice and Kate invited us to join them with a few of their neighbors. Alex had a BLAST!

The girls had so much fun pressing out their cookie dough then using cookie cutters. While the cookies were baking, they had a snack and did a few little arts and craft projects!

Alex wasn't sure what to do first, so she took a bite of her cookie and ate some frosting! She would spread some frosting on the cookie then lick the rest off the stick and keep going! They made the biggest mess, but had a blast! I think we came home with 1/2 a cookie because Alex ate the rest of hers!

After all the decorating was done, the girls played dress up and danced around the living room!

Seriously!

So a few weeks ago, Alex saw a commercial for Minnie's Masquerade and she has been asking for it since. I figured we'd get it for her for Valentine's Day. I got an email from Disney the other day and they had a $5 off coupon if you got the Mickey Mote version. I thought it looked cute and it's much more interactive than just watching a movie. I looked for it the other day at Target and they didn't have it. While we were out today, we made 4 stops looking for it. I finally found it at Toys R Us! Since Alex was with me, it wasn't a suprise so I let her watch it after her nap. While she was napping I tried to set up the remote and it wouldn't work. I searched online for any tips and found out you can't use it with a bluray player. What a pain! We don't even have a DVD player in our house! So if anyone is wondering, Alex wants a DVD player for Valentine's Day! haha