Love this man...

My friend sent me this pic last night and it made me smile!  I have no idea what we were doing, but I do know we were having fun.  A little blurry, yes, but I like it!

I'm blessed to have this guy by my side!

Date Night!

Nate and I had a wedding to go to last night.

It was so nice to have dinner and drinks with my hubby.  Sailor was sound asleep when we got home and Greyson was still up.  Figures-ha!  He said he was waiting for us;)

I thought I'd share where I got my dress...I was actually looking at a photographer's website that I really like and she had done a photo shoot for 'brittishboutique' .....I really liked all the clothes I saw so I checked it out and found this little number.  (i added the belt)  I personally think they have some really cute things.  You should check it out!

www.brittishboutique.com

Nate's Birthday...

I feel so lucky to have this guy in my life.  I don't know what I'd do without him.  He's taught me SO much that he doesn't even realize it and I'm so happy I have him by my side through the good and the bad.  I can honestly say that he's 'one of a kind' and puts his wife and family first and foremost.  I'm a lucky 'gal'...Not to mention he's the best dad a kid could have and if you ever see him with his kids you would know just what I mean.

Nate turned 32 on Feb. 21st and out of those 32 years I've been around for about 17 of them:)  (i met Nate when i was 15 - i think i did the math right?)

 We all know Nate is a special guy...

We had our families over to celebrate...

 I cannot tell you how much Sailor loves her little cousin...

a little Candyland...

 Grey couldn't wait to give Nate his card..

 And Giuliana even wore her 'i love my uncle' t-shirt...she already knows how to 'work' the crowd;)

 

makin' a wish with his daddy

Happy Birthday Nate!  

We love you and wish you MANY, MANY, MANY more!

Our Valentine's Day.

Just the four of us at home together.

 

We love getting mail here.  So, when I got home from school the kids were excited because they both had mail from their grandma and grandpa.

 

and a little bit of 'walkin' around money' to put in their piggy banks...

 I do not like getting my kids anything BIG for Valentine's Day.  However, this year we did get Grey a Leap Pad 2 only because we are going on vacation to Hawaii at the end of March to see Nate's brother, so he's gonna need something for the plane and this is it!  Nate and I went back and forth on different tablets and such but in the end we decided this would be perfect for Grey.  Needless to say, he was very excited about it!

 When we all got settled Thursday evening we went through Grey's valentines from school...  And I must give credit where it is due...shout out to my wonderful husband....who went to Grey's valentine party at school WITH sailor...he truly is such a WONDERFUL/HANDS ON dad...he walked right into school with the diaper bag over his shoulder carrying Sailor ready to participate in some preschool fun:).....he had me laughing because he says every time he goes into Grey's classroom, Sailor poops...and this day was NO different...

there's always fun to be had with play-doh...Grey says - "mommy I like the smell of this stuff!"

Grey and Sailie also had special visits from ALL their grandparents with little surprises such as socks and swedish fish - (one of our favorites...) and a few new ninja turtle movies...

 oh and flash lights for each of them...

I cooked us a steak dinner which everyone chowed down...My kids LOVE steak...

  

After dinner, we got into our jammies and caught up on American idol;) 

Perfect day with my lovies...

Christmas Crafting at its Best...

As if my chicken story wasn't bad enough for Monday morning, I also forgot about Grey's homework.  Woops!  I opened his folder and realized his teddy bear was due.  Each month we get a family activity to do.  For November we decorated a scarecrow and this month was a teddy bear.  Good thing Nate was so chipper and ready to help and let me tell you I did get a mini lecture on how it's not good to turn in Grey's homework late.  This, I know, but I probably did need to be reminded;)  The point of it is to gather things from home and decorate it as a family.  So, all credit goes to Nate on this one.  They made a cool christmas bear with nike shoes;)  And I can't believe I forgot to take a picture of the finished project...it was done and ready to go before we left for school...

 All it took was a little wrapping paper, a marker, and some gold ribbon...oh and some red tinsel which gave our teddy bear a really cool spike...

 This was the reason I wanted to have a crockpot meal on Monday....because we had to go and get our Gingerbread house making groove 'on'...

 The Preschool program at our school put this on for the kids...they provided the graham crackers, frosting, and milk carton...we had to bring our own candy...

I'm not sure if we spent more time decorating our house or eating the candy...

 Sailie was digging into the M&Ms

 Finished Gingerbread house looked something like this...




And the next morning we found Woody in the bowl with our creations...that silly little elf...