Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's day! Ok, so it's more than a week late, but we have good excuses, I promise! Let's just leave it at lots of colds, decently high fevers, and 75% of the family on different antibiotics all at the same time. It's been fun! NOT!

Anyway, here's a little collage of pictures from Valentine's day festivities. Todd and I facilitated a Marriage Orientation workshop at church in the morning, and then celebrated Valentine's day with the kiddos in the afternoon. Kate was VERY enthusiastic about putting her shorts on OVER her sweatpants, and wearing them around the house that way. Brett really liked his "touchdown" shirt (it says "touchdown on it) and "touchdown" shorts as he calls them. They also got new books from us - Kate got "Llama Llama Red Pajama" and Brett got "Smash Crash" because I was tired of checking it out of the library! He was very excited to show his new book to Poppy. While they were napping, another package came from Grandma & Grandpa - new shake and go cars! We already had Lightening McQueen, but now we have Ramone, and a new pink one, named PJ. We have no idea where the name came frome, other than the fact that they also got new PJs from Grandma & Grandpa. Go figure - Brett named him all by himself. Memere and Poppy rounded it all off with lots of stickers and a brand new Mr. & Mrs. Potato head set that they got to open earlier in the week. Can you say spoiled?!

I was still pretty sick that weekend, so we didn't do anything big to celebrate Valentine's Day ourselves. Instead, we waited a week and went up to Washington DC this weekend to watch Marquette beat up on Georgetown. It was a great game with great friends, and, most importantly, NO KIDS! Woo hoo! Brett & Kate hung out with Memere and Poppy for the weekend. The kids had a great time - it's all Brett has talked about since we picked them up. They were both exhausted by 7pm tonight - they must've played hard all weekend long!

[CLICK ON PHOTO ABOVE TO ENLARGE]