Sunday, February 17, 2008

Valentines

On Saturday night, Taylor and I celebrated my birthday. We went to my new favorite restaurant, Bonefish Grill. I LOVED the coconut shrimp. Taylor LOVED the pork. We will be going there again. We watched Fool's Gold and stopped by for Cheesecake at the Cheesecake Factory. Haylee and Josh were kind enough to babysit. It was awesome!

For Valentine's Day, we took the kids to a Chinese buffet. We have now sworn off all Chinese buffets except the one by Grandma and Grandpa Faber's house in Utah. Oh well, at least I didn't have to cook :)

Brayden's Valentine's party at school was fantastic. We didn't have the kids sing or perform in any way, so significantly fewer parents came, which actually makes it easier for me. We had pizza, grapes, carrots, and treats. It was fun.

Taylor went on an overnight YM activity that turned out pretty awesome. They started at 5:00pm at one of the member's homes and had a simulated mission night. The boys made their own dinners, had companionship study, reviewed lessons, etc. Then in the morning they were up at 6:30, exercised for a half hour (Taylor was in charge of that) and after the rest of the morning routine, they were off tracting. They went to member's homes so there was no door-in-the-face slamming and the members were expecting them. Turned out to be really great, I hear.

This was an awesome week for mail! (With one small exception--I got jury duty. Ahhhh! My wonderful sister Anna is actually coming out to watch my kids. Hopefully I won't be actually put on a jury and I can just hang out with Anna all week.)


Yess!! Mail!

Chocolate Hearts from (Great) Grandma and Grandpa Faber.


Packages from Grandma and Grandpa Faber

Yummy treats from Grandpa Dickerson


Thank you for the birthday love. It helped off-set the shock of Jury Duty.


I didn't bring my camera to Brayden's school party, but here he is with his favorite treat--which he ate in one sitting.

The Chinese Buffet had quite an effect on Brayden. Taylor carried him into the house and left him on the floor and he didn't even stir.

Happy Valentine's Day!

2 comments:

Sheila said...

Your kids are so precious!
What are the jury laws in OK? Here, if you have young kids at home you are exempt.
Happy late Birthday!

Schauers Hours said...

Happy be-lated birthday Jasmine! Your kids are so cute, love the pictures!