Happy Valentines!!!!

 I Love, Love, Love this holiday!!!!

I usually get the boys a stuffed (or "comfy") animal for Valentines.

This year I took them to Build a Bear and let them pick and build their own.

Dakota built Alvin the chipmunk and Bridger built Ruff the dog!

 Yesterday was Dakota's Kindergarten Party and they got to wear hats and have an etiquette lesson.  They then got to try out their skills while eating
heart shaped sandwiches and Love Potion!!!

The kids were all so cute and did great with their Thank You and No Thank You!

  Bridger was super naughty at the party and Scott had to come pick him up :(

At one point this is how he was found on the playground!

 We didn't quite have enough moms for the party
so Aunt Autumn was nice enough to come volunteer.

Dakota teacher said that she new right away that we were sisters because of our eyes....
I don't see it!

 The boys showing off all of their Valentines from school....

 These are some strawberry cookies that I saw on pinterest and tried out...

they were super easy and super yummy.

 Last night, Scott and I went out to our favorite restaurant "The Happy Sumo".

Sadly we didn't make a reservation and the Salt Lake one had a 2 hour wait and the Provo one had an hour wait and they were only seating at the bar.  We called a few other places, but decided to just go to the Provo happy Sumo and wait and sit at the bar.  Some how we totally lucked out and only had to wait about 20 minutes and were seated at a regular table!!!

 Scott me this cute Fossil purse and I got him some new basket ball shoes!!!!

Such a fun day!

Bridger...

I just went through my phone and realized that I have the cutest pictures of this little boy,

when it is just mom and him he has some of the silliest and cutest moment.

I love all the one on one time that we get to spend together.

stitches

With 2 crazy boys and a husband like Scott,

I guess that I should just plan on stitches being a part of our life.....

About 2 weeks ago Dakota and Bridger were wrestling in our family room when I heard a big bump and scream!!! I walked over and started giving my "see what happens when you guys mess around..." when I looked over and saw blood squirting from Dakota's head!!!

I hurried and pressed his blanket over it, and then tried to figure out what Bridger must of stabbed him with... I couldn't believe the amount of blood!!!

It ended up that he had fallen and hit his head on the corner of the rock fireplace.

I had been at work all day taking care of laboring patients,

so all that I could think to keep saying was "Take a Deep Breath"!

Obviously that takes care of everything.

After he finally stopped crying and the blood had stopped spraying, I went through our first aid kit (which was basically stripped clean) and put a abdominal pad on his head and wrapped it with an ace bandage. With blood all over his face and hair, the injury looked a lot worse than it was.

After a lot of convincing I took him over to the insta care where he got only 3 stitches and was so, so brave!!! We were the only ones there and he had a guy tech, nurse and doctor... who all treated him like he was the coolest boy in the world!

St. George Half Marathon

This past weekend we headed down to St. George to run another half marathon.
Scott's parents live down there during the winter so they helped out with the boys.
We ran this same race last year in perfect spring time weather....
this year we were welcomed with rain.
It ended up not being too bad and really didn't start down pouring until we finished.
My dad, Bobby and Rachel also ran with us......
and as shown in the pictures, Scott had a blast :-)
He really is a good sport and I love that he runs with me!!!!

Skiing

Last weekend we took Dakota skiing for the first time.
He was so excited and so nervous, but he ended up doing great!

My family was already up skiing at the Canyons, so my mom, Bridger and I rode the gondola up so that we could watch all of the action.

Me, Scott and the boys stayed that night at my parents condo and we had so much fun just relaxing and hanging out.

Dakota is so excited to go skiing again....
We were going to take him today because of the holiday,
but it ended up being a little to cold and windy :-(

Happy 3 Bridger!!!!

I can't believe that it has been three years since Bridger joined our family....

Chantell helped me make this cute cake!!!
Bridger spent the whole day trying to dump the cake out
so that he could play with the dump truck!

We also celebrated Matt's birthday (he turned the big 2.3. on December 30th)

Bridger got this really cute Mater Trike, which he has gotten a lot of practice on
thanks to the unreal, warm weather.

Bridger also started Preschool today.
Learning Dynamics has a mini 3 class that runs the same time that
Dakota has his Kindergarten Enhancement class.
2 hours, twice a week.... all to my self, whatever will I do????

2012

I absolutely love date night nights with Scott!!!
That is why the ultimate New Years Eve activity includes dinner and a movie.
This year we had to make it a little early, because I had to work Sunday morning and our baby sitter had real New Years plans that started at 9 pm.
So we decided to go see the afternoon showing of Sherlock Holmes (loved it)
and dinner at Mi Ranchito!!!

When we got home we had a little party with the boys,
which Dakota insisted was dumb because we didn't invite anyone :-)
But I think that he still enjoyed staying up late.

2011 was a year of buisiness and lots of changes,
my wish for 2012 is that we can slow down and focus on what is important in life.

Happy New Year!!!!