Hop, Leap, Jump

It's Leap Day and that always makes me think of Leap Frogs. I made up some mint oreo truffles for a treat for my family, and the kids loved these cute little toy frogs.

My favorite frog is Kermit and I was hoping to buy the new movie The Muppets for the kids. Since it's not out yet, I got them the original The Muppets Movie. I have to admit it's not my favorite Muppets show. Darn, I should have got The Muppets Take Manhattan.


After the kids were in bed, Len and I enjoyed the Leap Year movie. It's a cute romantic comedy and I LOVE that it showed "marriage" as being what is right.

Four more years and we'll be leaping again!

An Airplane and a Farm

I finished my virtual travel around the world blog today. Check it out (http://airplanefarm.blogspot.com/) and let me know what you think!

Our weekend with FLD

At school, Gavin's class has a pet. He's a stuffie named Fuzzy Little Dragon. Each weekend he gets to go home with a different student. This weekend it was Gavin's turn and he was so excited!


On Friday night they watched Star Wars and had Cinnamon Bun popcorn.

On Saturday they went to Daniel's birthday party and saw the movie The Muppets.

On Sunday morning they went to church.

And on Sunday evening the missionaries (Elder McLean and Elder Lockhart) came over for dinner.

Monday morning came too soon and it was time for Fuzzy to go back to school. Gavin and all of his siblings were excited he got to come and stay with us.

Happy Birthday Ken!

Hope you have a wonderful day. Len owes you a UNLV basketball game.

One-Zero-Zero

One hundred days of school! Gavin made this poster with 100 beads for his class celebration. Next year we'll make a gum-ball machine with 100 pom poms as the gumballs, since this year I wasn't prepared with enough pom poms- tee hee!

Crystal Garden

The kids had the day off school for Family Day.

This year Len had the day off too (from paternity leave, he usually has to work it as it's a provincial holiday and he's a federal employee).

We went downtown for the last day of Winterlude.

There were still lots of ice sculptures in good shape. This "Juno" award was really tall.

This little ice blocks that the kids could build with were so bright. Kool-aid?

Then we saw these neon ice wolves. Turns out they were really made of plastic.

More interesting art- trees built of ice skates and hockey sticks.

And a mountain of lost mittens. Our tax-paid dollars hard at work, ugh!

Cute little ice cabin.

And ice car.

And nice warm chair, ha ha!

All our boys. Teague would not keep his hat or mittens on and kept taking his coat off. Eventually, we had to put it on backwards so he couldn't unzip it. Crazy kid, it was cold out!

All our girls.

Since we've already tried Beaver Tails, we were going to get some Taffy on Snow from the Sugar Bush.

However, at $3 a pop for frozen maple sap, we decided to get a dozen Tim Horton's doughnuts and hot chocolate to share instead.

It was a fun day, but I am really looking forward to spring!

Look who's 5!

Happy Birthday Conner!

Happy Birthday

Karlee!

2nd of 12 = Success!

Today at my morning weigh-in, I was so excited to see I had reached my goal for the month! The kids were off school for a PD Day, so we decided to drive down to Massena to do some birthday shopping for the kids. While we were at the mall we saw that the Hallmark store was closing down next month and everything in the store was 40% off. We decided to get my monthly reward at such a great price. Hooray, now I have the 3 Wise Men to join my Nativity collection!

Triple Treat: Part 3

I love to decorate for each holiday. I have so many unfinished projects of holiday decor to prove it- ha ha! Someday I'll get them all done, sigh.




I saw these cute conversation heart bears and had to get them for my family this year.

"Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite."



"Family- where life begins, and love never ends."

My blue "You're Sweet" Kaleb.

My pink "True Love" Noe.

My green "Just Say Yes" Gavin.

My orange "Let's Kiss" Teague.

My yellow "I'm Yours" Hiram.

My purple "Be Mine" baby in the back of my mind.

Inside the boxes...

Peanut butter oreo truffles- yum!

At the end of the day when all the kids were tucked into bed, my honey and I watched the 1968 version of "Romeo and Juliet" (my favorite). [Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting are 2 of the most beautiful people ever!] The kids enjoy "Gnomeo and Juliet" better anyway. We had a very nice Valentine's Day this year and my family will always be my most beautiful favorites!

Triple Treat: Part 2

An Activity Day was scheduled for Valentine's Day, so I wanted to do something special for the girls.

We did a fancy-dress etiquette dinner. I taught them how to properly set a table and we talked about all kinds of etiquette and manners. I got the idea from the blog "Activity Days Ideas" (http://activitydaysforfun.blogspot.com/).

A group shot of the darling girls.

And another without the harsh flash glare in the mirror.

These 2 are in the same class at school, so they like to ham it up!
I'm glad I got to spend part of my Valentine's Day with 10 sweet girls.