Happy Valentine's Day!

Oh love day!  This has been a rough one for the twins with all the 6th grade drama.  The girl they like (yes, they both like the same girl!) doesn't like them which makes them pretty bummed.  However, they both have had quite a few girls ask them to "be their Valentine" and they are so sweet because they don't want to hurt the girls' feelings but they don't want to be their Valentine!  They've been saying things like "I'll think about it" or "ask me again later."  Hahaha.  They came home from school with love notes from a few girls too, cracks me up how forward girls are at this age!  It's interesting to see it from the boys perspective, since I'm a girl and had all sisters growing up I've never seen this stuff from the MALE viewpoint!  Mama bear is definitely coming out and I want to say go away to all the girls, haha.  

They each made their own Valentine's boxes...

 I thought Jack's was SO him...

 Tyce reused his from last year, parenting win...

 Josh, bare minimum boy...

 Tyce made a special Valentine for the girl he likes.  He was pretty bummed when I saw him that day at school (I was in his classroom teaching Jr. Achievement) because another boy in his class gave the same girl a big teddy bear and chocolates so he felt like his Valentine wasn't as good.  I said don't worry about it Tyce, you can win her over with your big brown eyes!  To which he replied, and because I'm so smart.  Hahaha, so humble that kid...

 After school we had our annual Valentine's Day scavenger hunt!  Here's their clues, some were easy and some they really struggled with...

Some of the clues led them to a gift, they were really excited about their light up gloves...

 And new clothes from Old Navy...

 This clue stumped them...

 Candy!

 Josh shot Jackson in the back with his air soft gun when they were in Josh's room waiting for me to set up.  He thought it was pretty cool...

 Last surprise...

Basketball laundry hampers!  

 Tyce's new outfit...

 That night we headed down to Lehi to meet up with Grandpa Morrill to get goody bags from him and Grandma Morrill.  The boys loved his modern office and wanted me to take pictures of them "acting like Grandpa Morrill"...

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone! 

Rest of January!

Sweet Jack and Brody...

Baby Audrey snuggling Auntie Jenn...

I'm pretty sure she's dreaming about how much she loves me...

We finally got SNOW!  We ended up with about 8 inches.  It's crazy it has been our only real snowstorm this whole winter!  It's mid February and temps are in the 50s and low 60s!  If you look closely you'll see an orange kitty under the chair...

Chester LOVES playing in the snow which cracks me up.  When he comes in all cold and snowy he runs to Brody who licks him and cuddles him until he warms up...

Tyce and Bridger at their swim meet last month getting ready to swim the 25 butterfly, it was adorable.  Tyce also swam the 100 IM and I was so proud of him because the starter and coaches weren't paying attention and he missed his event!  He was just climbing onto the blocks and they started without him.  He started crying and was so so sad because it's his favorite event.  I went over and spoke with the starter who apologized and let him swim in the next heat with the 10&under girls but still be scored with the 8 year old boys.  He sucked it up, wiped away his tears, swam with the girls, and dropped 6 seconds!  Love my little swimmer Tyce!!

I haven't taken many pics of the twins' basketball games this season because I'm always so busy cheering/yelling at the refs, just kidding, kinda.  They are playing in a Superleague and have learned a lot and had fun but, unfortunately, have not won many games!

This year in Primary I get to teach the 11 year olds!  Which means...MY BOYS!  Goody.  Josh and Beaux are bffs and totally too cool for Primary...

We celebrated Emma's 4th birthday!  All the cousins...

This is the hat we got her...

Linds and Jason got her this ADORABLE dollhouse...

Could she be ANY cuter?!  Nope, no way...

Auntie Jenn ADORES sweet Emma...

Parker has decided to build himself a work bench!  His awesome dad let him use all his fancy tools and Parker got to work...

The twins loved helping him, Josh mostly.  Josh loves stuff like that and Parker is so patient to let him learn and help.  He said that Josh was actually a real big help and I think the bonding time for them was good...

"Look how sturdy it is!"

The finished product!  Pretty impressive for never having built anything before!  Parker never ceases to amaze me...

Speaking of amazing me, the boys decided one day to make a bowling alley Rube Goldberg machine.  It ended up being pretty dang cool!

These were the spectators that Tyce set up, hahaha...

Tyce and I playing games (he rocks at Rumikub!)...

And eating raspberries...

Just doing my homework, in my underwear, in the middle of winter...

These two, Emma loves Jackson and he is so sweet with her and just adores her!  They were in his room reading books and he had her busting up laughing in her adorable giggle...

I have had a MISERABLE past 10 days of horrible sore throat, headache, congestion, pink eye, sinus infection, upset stomach, never ending cough, you name it!  I never get sick and this just lasted FOREVER!  I missed three days of work and didn't go to the gym for a whole week.  I am finally feeling better after going back to the doctor and demanding more meds.  The bad news?  I was sick.  The good news?  I got lots of Luna snuggles and Netflix watching!

I tried a steamy bath to help clear me up, didn't do much but Chester had fun pawing around in the water...

On to February!!!