Happy Valentine's Day!!

We spent our Valentine's Day attending the girls school parties,

doing our annual valentine's scavenger hunt,

we threw in a piano lesson,

ate fourteen pounds of candy,

and rounded out the night with a heart shaped pizza. 

Happy Valentine's Day!

Cuss words

About a year ago, we agreed to let the kids get their own email addresses.  They pretty much only use them to email Mike and I, and to receive email forwards from my father.  We haven't had any problems with the emails at all.  Until now.  The problem was brought to my attention Friday night, right after we dropped Briana off at her friend's house for a sleepover.  Sydney and I were planning a shopping trip and were just heading out the door when she showed me the inappropriate email my father had sent her. 

"Mom, I have to show you something," she told me as she held up her ipod for me to see, "why do you think Papaw would send me an email with a bad word in it?"

I took a good, long look at the email and noticed the word asses at the bottom.  I wondered to myself why would Papaw send Sydney an email with a bad word in it?  Unless he just didn't look at the email very closely.  Or, maybe he thought she was old enough to handle an email with a bad word in it.  She is eight years old. 

I decided to call my father right then and there and get to the bottom of this.  I told him about the email and he immediately ran to his computer to see what he had sent her. 

"Oh, I see," he tells me, "it says assess, not asses!" 

I looked at the email again, and darn it, he was right. 

"Oh, sorry," I mumbled, "I guess I didn't read it carefully enough." 

"That's ok," he tells me, "I'm just glad I didn't accidentally send her one of the emails I usually send to Mike!"

The Case of the Missing Tarts

Sydney performed in her second grade program on Tuesday, The Case of the Missing Tarts.  The show was very, very cute.

She got to play the xylophone too!



And, here's a clip of one of our favorite songs from the show.

Pretty great, huh!

Laundry Room Makeover

After seeing many, many cute and colorful laundry rooms on Pinterest, I decided my laundry room was very sad and needed a facelift. 

See that mess of bottles and cleaners on the shelves?  They were making me crazy.  I have tried many times to organize them, all unsuccessful.  No matter what I do, I always end up with a ton of bottles on the shelf.  Yuck.  So, I redid it.  And, it looks fantastic!!

We got some new wire shelving and those black bins keep everything looking neat and tidy.  Mike took our old wood shelves and turned them into more shelving for the broom closet next to the laundry closet. 

So I put all of our cleaners and things in there.  Out of sight.  And look how much space I have in the laundry room now!  There's room to grow! 

Cousin sleepovers

The girls invited Savannah to come over for a sleepover last night.  Little sleep was had.  However, the girls did come up with some pretty cute things in their sleep deprived state. 
I found this on my computer when I woke up this morning.

I know it's little, but it's cute.  Then I found this cute picture strip of just Briana. 

Aren't those cute?  I really wish my ipod had a camera now.  I'm not sure what time of the night those pictures were taken.  All I know is this is what I found in the living room when I woke up at 10 am. 

And they didn't wake up till 12:30!  My kids have never slept that late before.  Once they were up, look what Savannah did to Sydney.

Gave her stitches.

Gave her four shots on her ankle.

And, planted a tick on her knee. 

Meanwhile, Briana dressed up as a waitress!

Isn't she cute!

Next on the agenda for today: a nap.

Happy Birthday, Papaw!

Bowling!

Saturday night, we took the girls bowling for the first time.  I don't think I've been bowling in a good ten years, so it was kind of like the first time for all three of us.  Mike is one of those guys who's just naturally good at sports (if you consider bowling a sport), so he was all set.  The girls had so much fun!

And, guess who bowled two spares and one strike?  ME!!  We're definitely going back to bowl again really soon.  I'll need the practice for when I join a bowling league.