Today's memories.

Spending time as a family.

Including but not limited to:

The Provo Beach Club. Playing arcades, winning tickets, picking out prizes. Enjoying the smiles on the kids faces. Hearing I love you's.

Eating out. Totally enjoyable. Easy for Mom - no cooking required. Yet so rewarding to sit back and enjoy watching our interactions as a family.

Renting movies. Laughing at Ella's choice of movie "Mario Brothers" same movie (different episodes) as her big brother. She often says she is a boy. She wants to be like her brother so much. Luckily he is naturally a good kid, therefore a good influence.

Watching our movie together while the kids fell asleep to their movie.

Tucking the kids into bed. Simply my favorite part of each day. Nothing is more rewarding than watching those kids sleep carelessly and peacefully all comfortable in their beds. What a blessing. What a way to contemplate and end the night.

Valentine Cards

Today's picture could have been:

the kids playing together.

the kids fighting.

spagetti.

somehow incorporating the ugly feelings I felt eat at me all day. ugly I tell you.

sunshine melting the snow away.

Instead you get a snapshot of me sitting at the computer. laughing. at myself.

Because of course you can't play with photo booth and not take funny pictures!

Super Bowl Sunday.

Waiting anxiously in hopes to see this commercial! YAY!!!!!

Our local friends just won big people!

Time out.

Let's just say for the majority of the morning.

Sick with croup.

Ella said " Can we get Tater died, and get a new Tater that isn't sick?"

She misses playing with her big brother and doesn't know exactly how to go about expressing it.