Valentine picture outtakes

 Hannah does not like to take pictures with her brothers lately. If I place her in the middle of them or have her stand next to them she freaks out. I was trying to get a picture that I could add to their Valentines they were sending to family, but Hannah was being so difficult that we decided to try having her sit in a basket. While that did stop her from running, she still didn't want to be there. Her face is pretty amusing, but Sam's face makes these pictures funny.

Best one of Hannah.

Poor, poor basket baby.

I decided to try the next day, but it was a lot of the same old, same old.

I don't know how I managed, but here is the winner.

 

It's better than nothing!!!

Peek a boo

 I was playing peek-a-boo with Hannah on my bed today and she was pulling so many adorable faces that I had to get my camera. These were super hard to take because I kept playing peek-a-boo and didn't know where the camera was pointed. Some of them are blurry, and her hair is crazzzy, and her nose is crusty, but I think they turned out cute.  Oh, and side note, she kept saying, "one....two....three!" while we were playing.

 

Jordan's Valentines

I don't know what the heck I was thinking, but Jordan and I spent hours making his Valentines for his class. I drew the dinosaur and cut them all out and Jordan helped glue everything and he wrote "from Jordan" on the back. It took forever, but I was happy with how they turned out. I really enjoy things like this, even though they drive me crazy.

Valentine's Day

 We had an awesome Valentine's Day this year. No helicopters. No hospitals. No near death experiences. Nice and drama free. We started the day out with giving gifts to our kids. We never have done that before, but Valentine's Day is like Hannah's second birthday. So it's like we had to. We had no choice. :)

The boys each got a ninja turtle and Hannah got a stuffed pug and they all got a box of chocolates. All I can say is they have a very nice dad.

I made red pancakes, heart shaped melon and strawberries for breakfast.

This picture makes me laugh so hard because I told Sam to look at the camera, but he was having such a hard time looking at me when he had a new toy right next to him.

She loved her new chocolates.

For lunch they had heart shaped ham, heart shaped cheese, strawberries and pink yogurt.

Sam thought he was adorable.

We made pink cupcakes after lunch and I had a very special helper. She's also very cute.

The boys loved decorating the cupcakes.

Sam looked so cute all smeared with frosting.

Here's Sam's finished work.

And Jordan's. He lovvvvved the sprinkles.

She loved the frosting.

We are so blessed. I LOVE my family!!

This is what Hannah does when I pull out the camera.

But I lucked out and eventually got a pretty good one. She loves that pug.

Hope you all had a wonderful, drama free, healthy Valentine's Day as well!!!

Chinese New Year

Jordan's school has a Chinese immersion program where the kids learn to speak Chinese and learn about the Chinese culture. I hear it is awesome, but since we are hopefully moving before next year I haven't signed Jordan up. They had an awesome fundraiser at the school for the Chinese New Year where you could buy food from Hunan Village and in all the classrooms they had different fun activities. We got our faces painted, made panda bear puppets, a snake craft and made paper lanterns. The boys had so much fun. We decided to bring our dinner home because it was pretty crowded and noisy. The food was good too. We had a great time!

Our enormous icicle

Jordan loves really long icicles, so when we had one that was getting so long it was almost touching the ground he was pretty excited. I promised I wouldn't knock it down so we could see how long it would get. It fell down on its own before it got much bigger and that made Jordan pretty sad. So to make up for that I gave them an icicle to play with in the bath.

 

They thought it was pretty cool. Haha...no pun intended.

Pig tails

I got all of Hannah's hair into pig tails the other day. She looked so grown up! When I tried to get pictures of her she was acting so silly.

She  was pulling faces like this: 

And she was doing this a lot:

Then she tried to run away.