HAPPY VALENTINES

PICTURES OF THE DAY

Here's some pics of our Valentines Day (wanted a picture of my cute husband too-but he refused)

I love this guy...His smile melts my heart.

Made some cookies..Wish they would have been fluffier-but oh well.

Logan would have eaten all of them if we let her..(My mom made her cute dress..She also got a very pretty bracelet from pappy-but we took it off after church so it wouldn't get lost.)

Saw this cute tweetie balloon and coudn't resist buying it for the missy (2.99 at Walgreens!)

It was bigger than her and she loved it.

Hope you had a great Valentines too!

TRIP TO UTAH

Hello....Yes I am still alive. Having two kids definitely makes me more busy-and I have been out of town. Perry had to go out of town for work-so instead of sitting home alone I decided to make a trip to Utah. I was a little scared to drive 6 hours with two kids-but they did really well. Thank goodness for DVD players and a baby that likes to sleep in his car seat. My trip consisted of getting my hair cut/colored, visiting Annica (my friend), taking lots of pictures (especially 5th generation pictures, lunch at the BYU Dairy with mom-(tradition when I come to town), shopping-of course, and celebrating my sister's birthday at Brick Oven (mm..fattening pasta is my fav). Here are some pics of the trip.
All the cousins
Cache and Brindley (they are only a month apart)
I also got Logan's 2nd year pictures taken at Pennys. (I have decided I will get their pictures taken once a year around their birthday) In spite of being late, and Logan tripping and getting black all over her pants in the parking lot-they actually turned out pretty well. Amazingly she wanted to pose and smile for most all of her pictures. She is definitely a hit or miss on pictures-thank goodness this was a hit. Since I was there I had to get Cache's picture taken too-of course.

Dinner at Brick Oven. (Oh how I miss that place!)

Lauri was thrilled the workers made her stand to sing to her. Had a good time.. The End.

MONUMENTAL MOMENT

Yeah!--we finally got rid of Logan's binki...I did not know if we ever would since it has become her favorite friend. How did we do it? We heard from a friend about cutting the tip off- so we thought we'd try it and.....it worked! One night we cut the tip off her binki and gave it to her and she put it in her mouth and said "yucky...don't like it". She didn't cry or anything but she still wanted to hold it in her hand. The next few nights she would ask for her binki and every time she would put it in her mouth and say yucky but she still wanted to hold it. About a week later she said "don't like..throw it away." We took her downstairs and she took a long look at her bink and a long look at the garbage and finally threw it away saying "bye bye bink." She has still occasionally asked for it-but we remind her she threw it away and she says "oh yeah, I a big girl now." I am glad we rid her of the bink but now she is having a harder time taking naps because of it. I think the bink helps her relax and go to sleep. The other day we heard her mumbling something about bows over the baby monitor. Perry went to check on her and this is what we found....apparently she decided she would rather try on bows than take a nap. Glad we got rid of the bink-but sometimes I miss it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOGAN!

I cannot believe my baby is two! Okay...I know she is not the baby anymore but sometimes she still feels like my baby. We had a little family get together to celebrate and of course I had to post pics.

I made her a butterfly cake- there are definitely many mistakes but it turned out okay. (this picture is way out of order....oh well.) THIS YEAR (she kept trying to sneak the frosting off the cake while I was taking her picture) LAST YEAR (It's crazy how much they change in a year!)

She loved opening her presents. I had her presents sitting in the living room all day and she kept wanting to open her presents saying "Logan open presents?" I finally had to hide them so she would quit asking. Needless to say she was happy that night when she finally got to open her presents. She couldn't quite figure out how to blow out the candles-so dad helped.

I found these napkins, cups and party favors at the dollar store and was so excited because they matched the butterfly cake perfectly.

She cracks me up..When I ask her to say cheese lately she turns her head and and smiles like this.. (see the two picture below) I have to snap it fast because she runs away so quickly.

She loved her balloons and still carries them all over the house.

Some of the other cousins at the party...They were all having too much fun playing upstairs.