Norah's First Sleepover!

Norah spent the night at Savannah's last night. Head over to the Morrison's blog to read the details!! You will crack up!

An Icy Day

As you may have read on Nicole or Alison's blogs, we had an ice/snow/winter storm today. Luckily we didn't have any plans anyway. We were already planning on having a lazy at-home day. Kevin headed into work around 8, but called at 9 to say he was his way home because he wasn't even halfway to work. Yea! We tried to leave him alone so he could get some work done. It was not an easy task for me - the girls wanted daddy's constant attention.

The girls used do-a-dot markers for a long time. Lucy took a morning nap because she didn't sleep well last night.

While Lucy napped, Norah wanted to "have school" (just a quick note, I am going to homeschool Norah for a couple of years - more to come on this in a new blog). Norah has been learning some Bible verses (we are using a book, My ABC Bible verses - totally age appropriate - love it!). She has memorized A-F, so we worked on those today. She also has been wanting to learn to write her letters, so I have been teaching her (capitol and lowercase) along with the verses she is learning. So today she practiced writing A-F. We wrote letters (as in snail mail) & Norah drew pictures to the 2 girls that we sponsor through Compassion International.

After lunch, Lucy went down for another nap and Norah and I made chocolate chip banana bread. Norah is a great little helper - complete with an apron and all. Then Norah went down for her nap.

While the girls napped, I ran on the treadmill and did one of my strength training workouts that I got from my trainer, Melissa. I have had a hard time getting up in the morning to get to the gym - thankfully I have 2 workouts that I can do just as easily at home.

Once the girls got up from naps, we basically just played until dinner and played after dinner until bed. I didn't get a lot done - but I am really trying not to obsess over housework and really enjoy my girls instead. They are only going to be little for a short time and I want to cherish my time with them - isn't that part of the reason that I am at home with them?

Sorry for the semi-boring details - but I know the grandmas like to read about our day!!

Valentine's Day

We had heart-shaped blueberry pancakes for breakfast. Both girls chowed!

Later in the day the girls (well, Norah) and I made a heart-shaped red velvet cake for Kevin.

Look closely at Norah's lip and neck of her shirt - you will notice red frosting:)

Okay, so, I am fairly confident in my baking ability. I LOVE it and it's in my blood (my great-grandfather was a baker) - however, I CANNOT frost/decorate a cake that is not in a 9x13 pan. You'll notice that I added red sprinkles to cover up all the red crumbs that came through as I was trying to frost.

Kevin surprised me with a delivery of chocolate covered strawberries!! Yum!

Good Friends.

On Tuesday, Norah had dance in the morning. Heather invited Norah over to play after dance. Norah loves playing with Savannah! When I picked her up, both girls were dressed up as princesses - surprise, surprise:)

Then, Karen and the girls came over to play and have dinner. Both daddies had to work late so it was a good time for us mommies and girls to hang out. Norah and Kate also enjoy dressing up and pretending to be princesses.

We had Papa Murphy's for dinner. I LOVE Papa Murphy's - mostly because I can pick it up early in the day and bake it whenever we are ready to eat.

Brooke and Lucy

Norah and Kate

Thanks, Nicole!

Thanks, Nicole, for this blog award!

I'm going to pass it along to Heather - who inspired me to start my blog!

Another Cold Winter Day

Once we picked Norah up from school, we did not leave the house - it was too cold! This is what we did to keep busy:

For those of you who are also experiencing really cold winter days - what do you do to help your kids from going stir crazy?

Isn't She Adorable?

I need to start by saying this is Norah's new favorite word - Adorable! She will tell Lucy she is adorable. She will hold up one of her babies is adorable.

We all agree that my niece is truly adorable!! We had not seen Max, Denise, and Contessa since Thanksgiving. They spent a month is Chile over Christmas and then this was the first available weekend for everyone.

Lucy really enjoyed Contessa. I'm sure Contessa has never had such GREAT hugs before!

(notice Denise's face)

Matt, Alison and the boys came over today to see Contessa, too. The kids had a great time together.