Catching Up

Alright- I am going to apologize ahead of time for this monster post. It's been a busy, but fun couple of days.

Here's how we finished off our Valentine's Day~

Genna loved being able to read all the names this year on her Valentine cards


I got a surprised with flowers from my secret sister. Genna loved it b/c the frog sings.


a candlelit dinner in the basement



I covered the top of an ugly chocolate box for Troy- we also opened our homemade Valentine's and read them


The next day I subbed and that night Troy and I were able to go up to the temple, while Grandma & Grandpa Koski watched the kids. It was a great night and our goal is to get there more often this year.

Saturday Jameson had an intense basketball game against Louisville. Then afterwards my brother Dave and his family came down for lunch. It was so nice to spend some time together!


After their visit, my Mom and I drove down to Kansas to visit my sister Lorilee. We had the best weekend. We had broccoli cheese soup, my Mom made banana bread and Lorilee and I made ourselves super hungry looking at tons and tons of cupcake pictures. Lor- you need to send me some of the links we found, ok?


Her baby Ashlyn is just the sweetest thing ever and I love being able to go and love on her. Here are some pictures I took of her in my Grandma's Christening gown.



Our kids have a lot of fun playing together. This weekend they decorated cookies, played the Wii and made a cousins grocery shop and had an official ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the grand opening.


Lorilee helped me make this little bag for Genna that I've been wanting to do since last fall. We used an old pair of jeans, some clearance fabric from Joann's and a belt I got at a garage sale. It turned out really cute, although jeans and thick belts are not really fun to sew through!


Anyway, thanks for staying with me to the end of this mega post. We really had a great weekend, the only downside, is that Jameson now seems to have what Genna had last week.

About me this week...

I found this fun meme on Bella Dia's blog.

On My Bedside Table:
Five Love Languages (my lesson at sorority this week was about this book)
A pair of green earrings
A picture Genna painted me
The remote for the DVD player that broke last year !?!

Next Up from Netflix:
sigh, we still have The Reading Room
The Astronaut Farmer
I Am David
Unaccompanied Minors
Evelyn
The Derby Stallion

Latest Interests:
scrapbooking with a focus of getting more pictures scrapped on one layout



On My Mind:
South Beach- finding fun new recipes & rediscovering old favorites (hot milk + sugar free vanilla syrup + a tiny squirt of whipped cream + a dash of cinnamon plus)


Learning:
to be more patient and loving

to treat my body better- my name is Kristi, and I am a carb addict!

Making:
a new ironing board cover

Earthquake cake trifle (I originally made Sophia’s recipe, only using storebought frosting, it looked awful and it was for my sorority night, so I quickly turned it into a trifle, layering the cake, homemade cream cheese frosting and a crushed Hershey bar with almonds (I didn’t try it so I don’t know if it tasted ok, but I know it looked much better!)




Looking Forward To:
my sorority scrapbook night

the Jane Austen compilation on PBS- starting this Sunday

Enjoying:
Having my parents home for a short visit


my afternoons with Genna


Amused By:
Grandpa and the kids bowling



Connor trying to win some sort of spelling contest- he has to use a thesaurus to rewrite sentences using his weekly spelling words. He prides himself on trying to find words his teacher has never heard of. Last night he picked brobdingangian to replace huge.

The birds in my backyard.

Date Night

Troy and I discussed going on a date tonight. We decided it might be more important to spend time together as a family and so we opted to go out for pizza and then we were going to come home and watch the Netflix we've had since before the beginning of December (yikes, I didn't realize it had been so long). Well, it was extremely busy at Pizza Hut and then they burnt the cheese pizza that we'd ordered for the kids, so we ended up being there for a really long time. I am not sure if it was the long wait, full tummies or just getting back into the school schedule, but all 3 kids were falling asleep on the 20 minute drive home. Since it was still early, Troy and I decided to have our date night after all.

We had the best time bowling in our pajamas. It was so great- there weren't any ugly shoes to wear, there is an instant replay to show you how the pins fell and you don't have to wait for your ball to come back down the lane. The only thing missing is the little hand dryers.





It realy was such a fun date. I can guarantee that one of us would have fallen asleep had we just decided to watch the movie. Instead I beat Troy at bowling and we even had time to get 9 holes of golf in, as well.