HEART ATTACK!

This year for Valentine's Day I HEART ATTACKED our kitchen/dining room area.  I left for work at 5am, so I got up really early while everyone was still asleep. I wanted them to have a nice surprise when the woke up.

All of the hearts had something written on them.  Like.. "I love you", "Happy Valentine's Day" and "Be Mine".

  None of the hearts said the same thing twice.

 Our sleepy kids checking out their surprises.  They loved this and it was a great way to start out their Monday.

Happy Valentine's!

A Valentine's Scavenger Hunt

For Valentine's Day my good friend Jayme had a fantastic idea of doing a scavenger hunt with the kids.  She planned everything.  We did a little dollar store shopping and it made for a good time for all of us.

 Here's the princess with her purse.  Obviously this is a must for a trip to the park.

 We ate a little lunch from Mickey D's.

 Then the kids were handed baskets and went off with the Dad's to look for clues.

 Hmmmm.... where to look first.

 Each clue was a puzzle piece.  So once they had all the pieces they headed back to the table to put them all together.

 Once they had the final clue they ran off to find the grand prize!

 It was a big box.....

 Filled with cookies to decorate!

 So everyone got down to it and decorated those cookies.

YUM!  Thanks Jayme for coming up with such a neat idea!  We had a blast!

Chocolate Affaire

While Rob was in Vegas with friends, Jordan, Delaney and I went to the Glendale Chocolate Affaire.  We joined the Heuer's to induldge in some yummy chocolate.

 Delaney and Jordan ready for some sugar.

This is Jordan making his annual Chocolate Pizza.  It's milk chocolate with marshmellows, mint chips, and vanilla icing.  They have other choices like raisins, cranberries, and nuts to put in there, but Jordan likes to keep things basic.

 Yummmmmmm, need I say more?

Please, brother share your frozen chocolate covered banana!

We also took a tour of the Cerreta Chocolate Factory while we were there.  It smelled so good!  It was hard not to want to eat everything there.

White chocolate covered pretzels.  They have this Chocolate Affaire every year, the first weekend in February.  And every year we go back.  Being a chocolate lover myself, I can't resist.

Phoenix Zoo

We decided to take advantage of our free membership one last time before it expired, so off to the zoo we went!

 We brought our lunch so we could have a picnic at the zoo.

Can you tell which one is the baboon?

 Delaney and I trying to milk a cow.  Not really sure how this works...

Pretty girl driving the tracker.

 Kierstin, Jordan and Delaney on the tracker.  Love these kids!

Daddy and his girls.

 Sisters on the slide.  Delaney must have went up and down this thing at least 20 times.  She loves slides.

A little help from her big brother.

Another successful trip to the zoo.  Man was it hot though for January!  GEEZ!

Wordless Wednesday

"Up Mama"

Belly Button

Yes, Delaney has found her belly button.  She will also find yours if you will let her.

Happy New Year, 2011!

On New Years Eve the grandparents were kind enough to watch the kids so Rob and I could go to dinner and a movie.  Cheesecake Factory, YUM!  Rob had bought some fireworks for the occasion so when we got home it was time to light fireworks and party! 

 Here are Jordan and Kierstin all ready in their party hats. 

My handsome little man.

My favorite picture of the night.  They had so much fun lighting sparklers.

The Heuer's also came over to join in the festivities.  We played Just Dance 2 on the Wii until early hours of the morning.  We're so wild and crazy I know.



Happy New Year everyone!  Hope 2011 is a great one for you and your family.