January 2013

Still trying to catch up and for some reason life keeps moving forward.... quickly! So, the quick recap on January....

First of all... best January ever! Brian took me on a much needed cruise. He surprised me one day saying he was taking the time off so we could go on a cruise. I was having a really hard "mommy" time so he took me for some good R&R and my Mom was so great to come out and watch the kids, which they were thrilled about. It was a great trip. We flew red eye to Miami, took a cab to the cruise then got on the boat and relaxed in the SUN until the ship took off. We had fun eating, swimming, walking, sleeping, going to the show and watching Brian win a song competition. It was so beautiful and this is how I will build my heaven someday. :) We went to Nassau and Cococay islands. We had fun snorkeling and saw a lot of fish and a few sting rays. We ate yummy food and enjoyed our new friends from our dinner table. It was just a lot of fun.

We came back from a nice sunny trip to a cold Colorado. We celebrated Elizabeth's 10th bday. She had a pretty special day, I think. My visiting teacher (Linda McDowell) watched the kids so I dcould go to lunch with Elizabeth. I took her favorite 5 layer burrito from Taco Bell. Then at night we went to Panera, her favorite place to eat as of late, and then she wanted to go ice skating. Quite a full day. The skating was different from a month ago. This time the skies were blue, it wasn't too cold and the ice on the rink was melting, but it was good fun. She wanted a friend party, so the next day, Saturday, we had one for friends.

 She has been really into Harry Potter at school and reading all the book and watching the movies, so she wanted her party to be Harry Potter themed. We made good invitations that we sealed with wax and she really had fun with it. We played who's who with Harry Potter characters, made homemade pizzas, made "wands" with pretzel sticks and chocolate, played pin the scar on Harry and then they played Harry Potter scene it. It was a fun night.

As for the rest of the month, there's been snow fun, dates with kiddos, swimming fun, tub time with goggles, movies,  game fun and game night with our dental friends. So, a pretty fun month over all!