Today

Today was great. Angela tells me about 3 times a week: "Today is the best day of my life."

Here is what today entailed that made me smile. Love these girls.

Angela. Loved the movie "Frozen." Since we have seen "Frozen," this girl has found great fun in dressing up in skirts and dresses and running and around and singing "Frozen" songs. She dramatically runs around while throwing her arms and head around and dancing just as a princess would while exclaiming the words to the songs :)Today was particularly awesome. It was super windy outside so her skirt got extra swoosh as she sang and danced around in the wind.

 

 Carolyn brought me back to my favorite show "Full House" today. A show I watched when I was young. One episode that I loved one of the characters (Stephanie) made a bed in the tub. Well, my friends...this is what Carolyn did today...

 The shower/tub in Andrew and my master bedroom has been out-of-order for the past 6 months. Carolyn figured she better make good use of that wasted space.

 She informed me that she wanted a place she could hide and be by herself when feeling sad. Some place no one could find her. This was the solution. (As a side note- Carolyn's favorite author is Roald Dahl - she just finished "Witches" is onto "BFG" and has "Matilda" on hold at the Library for the next read).

 And this girl LOVES helping me in all my HouseKeeping duties. In fact, she can get pretty upset when I don't allow her to help me with everything I do (dishes, finances, cleaning, laundry, ironing, cooking - she is THERE by my side to be my helper. I am rarely without her right by my side. Lucky me to have EMILY that loves doing everything with me :) Here Emily is today helping me cut up the veggies for our Quinoa chili for dinner tonight.

WildLife Refuge

Can you believe this place is 10 minutes away from our home. And free.

 One of my greatest friends (Yvette) and her two cute girls (Savannah and Corrina) invited us to go to the Wildlife Refuge for our day off on President's Day. They also picked up Hannah from Angela's and Corrina's kindergarten class. Bison and deer up-close. Eagle/animal shows. Coyotes and eagles around. Etc. It was awesome. And free.

Left to right: Emily, Angela, Hannah, Corrina, Carolyn, Savannah

Frozen Night Out!

The girls are the best. The best ever. They heard me say that I would love to see the new Disney movie, "Frozen." So, the girls secretively planned a birthday gift for me and Emily to share - a family trip to the movies to see "Frozen." Carolyn and Angela knew that they couldn't make enough money with their allowance to pay for the family to go so they asked for extra chores. Especially week one they were chore crazy to earn money for Emily and my present. They did try to keep it a secret, however. They didn't tell me what the gift was but that they needed to save up about $21. We ended up going to the cheap theaters and the girls earned their $10 to go towards the movies (Andrew made up the difference). They even got popcorn! What sweet girls!!!

The movie was so cute! Probably my favorite kid show! Carolyn and Angela claimed it as their favorite movie ever. We can't wait to see again.

A big thank you from Emily and me to Angela and Carolyn and Andrew :)!!!!

2014 VALENTINES DAY!

YAY!!! Valentines Day:

#1 Favorite Holiday of Carolyn's

#2 Favorite for Angela and Mom

We love Valentines Day!

Especially if you are me and have Andrew as your Valentine!!

The girls making their Valentines. Angela picked Princess Valentines with Conversation Hearts. Carolyn choice Airhead Valentines.

 We thought a lot about our sweet Great Grandma Della (Andrew's Grandma Della Hansen). It was her first Valentines Day without her husband. We thought she might be lonely. Carolyn had a brilliant idea. She painted her a beautiful car and wrote two beautiful poems for her. We sent it off for her.

 Emily, Angela and Carolyn worked their artistic magic to come up with these beautiful Valentine Cards:

 Angela made this adorable Valentine Box to collect her Valentines as school. A Valentine Monster! She named it "Valentines Monster." It was fun making it together.

 Valentines Day - Daddy spoiled the girls in his life. Us girls walked downstairs to find this waiting for us!!!! I love my Valentine! How did I luck out?

 Valentines morning I threw a party for our neighbors (Crawfords) and us. We made Valentine puppets, decorated Valentine cookies, and made Valentine Cards with Conversation hearts. We love our neighbors, the Crawfords.

 I love volunteering in the girls' classroom. My favorite is I try to get into Angela's writing time and I also love being a "mysterious reader" for her class. Her Valentine Party was so fun! Here is my adorable Angela in her cute hat on Valentines Day :)

 Silly Class. Angela's best friend is her class is Alijiah. Alijah is the one on the bottom row 3 in from the left. She is wearing yellow.

 To surprise our Andrew, the girls and I decorate the house and made a fancy restaurant. We used food dye to ensure the food was all Valentines colors! Daddy brought Valentine doughnuts for us.