More from Utah!

We went skiing at Deer Valley with my brother. He is the director at the Summit County Library and hooked us up with FREE passes. We are showing them off in the picture...they are Deer Valley bolos (VIP right there)! It was a gorgeous day with great skiing and we had an awesome time!!

 We love seeing Kenzie, Dallin, Dan and Lisa!!

My parents are missionaries at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake and they had to go work on Saturday so I had my best college friends come up with their families and we had time to catch up. Briana and Natalie both have 2 girls as well. Here are the oldest girls checking out the birds!

This is a good chair to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse in!

Julia, Mar, Briana, and Natalie! Such beautiful girls inside and out. I love them so much!

On Sunday Lyndsay and Tyler stopped by on their way home from Wyoming and we got to chat with them. Lilly and Dallin hit it off...they are both SO CUTE!! I am so blessed with the greatest friends of all time. I love Tyler and Lynds so much! 

We had a few things to celebrate whilst we were there. My brother Dan and his wife Lisa had their 8th wedding anniversary. We had some pineapple (they went to Hawaii on their honeymoon) and played "Are you smarter than a newlywed." Then we celebrated my dad's 64th birthday. We decorated with balloons and a banner, played some Wii sports, watched an awesome video my brother made him, and ate Peach Cobbler!! 

We got my dad that sign. When I saw it, I couldn't resist :)

Sledding at Soldier Hollow

We took a winter getaway to Park City to visit my family and go skiing. 

One serious bonus was my parents treating us to a sledding trip. This was Allie's first time and we were nervous about it. She tends to be afraid of everything until we force her to do it and then she's hooked. 

She was super excited to get her intertube and go up the tow rope. She thought that was "sledding." When we were at the top all she kept saying was, "I don't know about this!" She went down with Doug the first time and LOVED it. When we got to the bottom of the hill she would say, "Let's do that again" everytime. 

Since Katelyn wasn't old enough to sled, one of us stayed with her each time and ran her around in an intertube. She loved it, but was not a fan of the montrous snowsuit we had her in. :) 

It wasn't busy, the sun was shining, and we had a blast. This is a memory everyone will remember, especially Allie!!

 Allie's first run. She was looking around, pretty worried about things!

 Awesome grandparents right there. Allie was freezing by this time!

P.S. The first time I went to a place like this was my senior year of High School. I went with my parents and there was a worker who kept flirting with me. He would ask my name the first time up the tow rope, then the next time he asked for my number, etc. I was freaking out and my parents were giving me tips on how to flirt back with him. Hahaha!

Sledding hills are fun times!

Little Loves!

I love Valentine's Day! It's so fun, especially for the kidlets!
I did 14 days of Valentine's for Doug and we had fun hiding them and surprising him.
He made me homemade peanut butter cups which are delicious!
We gave Allie a heart-shaped bowl and Katelyn some forks and they had friends come over to exchange Valentine's.
We met Doug for lunch with his parents.
For our romantic evening we packed for our trip to Utah. I know, it was quite the date!
 It was a fun day!!

  So excited about her present!

 Check out that morning hair!!

These next set of pictures are the best. The girls were having so much fun hamming it up for the camera (which is rare).

Allie's preschool friends and their siblings. Katelyn is in her own world :)

Lunch date with dad, Nan and Pa

My homemade peanut butter cups :) 

Big Girl Beginnings

I am the mom that would rather do everything for her child because it's faster, cleaner, and easier.
But I've let go of one thing...eating.
Katelyn is now eating at the table, she's happier, she eats more...all because she can do it herself. She is a strong willed girl!

February Date Night

This was an at home date, focused on quality time together, and a chance to talk and relax! It was so nice and just what we needed. We were both really sore!

The Date Card

We chose: massages with body oil, hand treatment, and of course the chocolate covered treats!

We just dipped what we had on hand. Bananas, graham crackers, pretzels and cinnamon bears. Our favorites were bananas and pretzels!

Scentsy is starting a new brand called Velata in May. It's a chocolate fondue warmer. That would have been wonderful to use instead of our crock pot! hahaha!! http://www.velata.net/

If you know me, you know I LOVE chocolate covered cinnamon bears, which is why I was very excited to try this. Not even close to being as good as the store bought version! Oh well.

 The body oil we got. It smelled very subtly like mangos and we mixed it with lotion...it was awesome!

 A night by the fire, together. It really was so fun and so relaxing. In fact...I fell asleep during mine and Doug had to carry me up to bed! Haha, again, if you know me well this does happen on a regular basis!

What have you been doing for fun dates???