Valentine's Day Weekend at the Cabin

So my wonderful hubby took me out to P.F. Chang for dinner on Friday night for an early Valentine's Day celebration! It was so relaxing to walk around downtown and hang out together without kiddos and then on Saturday morning we took off for the cabin. We had planned on leaving really early, but we arrived mid afternoon. Rylie was sick most of the way and the only thing that was keeping her from not throwing up was telling her stories about Cinderella and Craig's 40 minute version of Adam and Eve. Sadly, we missed the heart shaped pancakes that Aunt Lori had made for breakfast. But don't worry the mouse that decided to join us that evening really enjoyed the pancakes. Randy (my brother-in-law) killed the mouse with Rylie's shoe on the plate of pancakes. We were definitely done with them after that!!!! We decided not to tell Rylie that he used her shoe. Later, we kept the festivities going with some heart shaped rice crispy treats. Rylie adores her cousins Jack and Sam and spent most of the weekend with them out in a snow fort that they had built next to a fallen tree! My favorite thing to watch was Randy and Craig pulling each other on the sled behind the snowmobile! To end our Valentine's Day weekend on a good note, we watched Fireproof. I would recommend it to any married couple whether you are struggling or not!

Snip-its from February

Snip-its from the girls these past few weeks: My mom and dad and Craig's sister and her family went to tropical places this January, leaving us here in the cold weather. The upside is, they brought the girls back some adorable dresses from Hawaii and Mexico! Rylie learned how to do a funny face for pictures, so now we have to do a serious one and a silly one.

Rylie has come up with some pretty clever things to say lately, since we were stuck at home all week last week with colds.

She was drawing at the table and she drew a picture of a "spaceship" just like her friend Hudson at church. She told me that I wasn't little enough and it was probably to hard for me, but I could pray and ask God to help me to do it. Then she turns me and says, "You know why you can ask God to help, because God is on your side!" Amen Sister!

Also, we learned this week that Rylie is a planner. She has her next three years planned out. She explained to me that when she turns 4 she is going to be in Ballet, then when she turns 5 she is going to be in gymnastics and when she turns 6 she is going to go to kindergarten. We had been talking about practicing to get better at something. She went on to say that if she practices ballet she will be a good balleter and if she practices gymnastics, she will be a good gymnasticer. I love how kids try to figure out the English language, when we struggle with it as adults.

Ella is standing up on everything and can climb our stairs in about 3.5 seconds without falling down. Her little personality is coming out a little more in groups, but she still bears the name "Stoneface" in most social circles.

I am taking on something this month that I have never done before- writing a life plan for the next 20-30 years and learning how to live purposefully. A couple at our church is showing us how and it has been very convicting to see where I would like to be spending my time and where I really spend my time day to day.

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Thank you for including me April in this fun little look back. I was a little bummed because our computer had crashed, so we just got a new computer this summer. So this picture of Rylie is not very old, but she is just starting to show her independence (right before her 3rd birthday)!

So I tag the following 5 people to go on there computer and look at the fifth picture of the fifth folder and tag five more people.
1. Melanie
2. Lori
3. Shaanti
4. Jenny
5. Amy Jo