My Valentine!!!!

Be My Valentine!!!!

I love Valentine's and so a few paper hearts get tapped on the walls and a rose candle is burned in the kitchen and we play love songs on the computer!!!!  I knew a Valentines date would not happen on Valentine's day because the boys and girls high school basketball teams made it to LBC for finals!!!!!  This was gonna be a fun night with our school family and the team!!!!

 I could not resist the See's Candies brochure that got sent to us!  Mike grabbed some See's candy at the airport when we went on our football weekend and we loved it!  He grabbed another box on our way home!  So, when we were sent a brochure I knew he would love this for Valentines!!!!!

It's a huge, beautiful box full of delicious chocolates!!!!

And he came home with a heart shaped box of the best cupcakes for me and the kids!!!!!

I'm still enjoying the tulips but in a nice concert pot I scored from Fashion Cents!!!!!

Both the boys and girls high school basketball team made it to the finals at LBC!!!!  What an accomplishment!  Mike helps with the hustle chart and just helps Mike Schatzmann out where he can.  It's been a fun ride for Mike!

So proud of all these athletes!!!!!

Mike and I went out on Saturday night for dinner at 401 Prime and loved it!  We walked the mall and really enjoyed our evening together!

Happy Valentines my love!!!!!!

A snowy winter.

 This has been a snowy winter here for us and I'm A OK with it!  Some winters are bleak and not so pretty and this snow has just been a nice touch of white for us to enjoy!

I grabbed a bunch of tulips at Target the other day for $7 and it's been a spot of cheer in the kitchen for me!

The garden in resting but it won't be too long before I will grab some seeds and "think" about planting plants in here!

I made a Dutch Baby and topped it with lemon curb and berries!  So tasty!

With the weather being SO COLD this winter and all the snow, it's been hard to get a walk in at the park!  The paths don't get cleared real fast and I'm not freezing myself to get a walk in.  However, last week Linda and I did meet up there and the fountain is frozen while the ground promises that Spring is coming!!!!!  See those daffodils coming through the ground?

And I found my favorite Valentine candle again!!!!  Rose and Bergamot!!!!  It makes the house smell amazing!

I'm gonna brag just for a minute here!!!  I told myself at the beginning of the year that I would love to read more!  The only way I figured this would happen is if I actually would read more!!!!!  It's not complicated!!!!! 😂  So, here I am in February and already on my second book!  I think I read through two books all last year so I think this goal is helping!!!!!  Zoey is here all week and she's got me company as I read!

Also, trying to get some extra vitamins in each day with drinking two oranges and one grapefruit!!!!  Love it!

Let's just say workout class for me has been tough, many, many sore muscles but somehow I keep going back!!!!!!  I do love the class and the ladies in my class!  I would never push myself like this working out here at home.  I'm the type that needs some accountability and this is it for me!!!!!  Last week, Suz had us workout in times.  Start with 20 seconds, then 40, then a minute and then work back down to 40, 20.  Your muscles are screaming by the time you got done with one exercise and then we moved on to another exercise.  These are the weights I used the entire hour of workout class and I hurt so bad the next few days because of my muscles getting worked!

And on the way home, I passed this farm that has a driveway about a mile long.  A man and lady were both out scrapping the entire driveway!!!!!  The work ethic in our county is incredible!!!!!!

Ashlyn helped Hadassah clean at Site Prep on Saturday morning and Jeremiah was working on tile in the shower at Matthew and Daisy's house.  So, we all ended up over there helping Matthew clean up the floors and empty out the trash barrels!  Hadassah did some sanding while the kids and I shop vaced the floors!

There's still a lot to do at the house but things are coming together!  It's gonna be so cute!

Arie came for a visit on Sunday night as we played a game of Monopoly!  

The kids had off of school since last Wednesday!  Winter break is usually spent somewhere warm for us but this year we stayed home.  Yesterday, Wyatt asked if Austin could come over and they had a blast mudding with the four wheelers!

Winter is my least favorite month but it's a time of extra rest, extra snuggles and time at home!!!!  I can hardly believe that it's mid February already!!!!  Spring come quick!  We are ready for you!!!!!

Valentines Party!

I helped out at the fourth grade Valentines Party and I just love Valentines!  The sweet messages, the reds and pinks and all the hearts just gets me!!!!  I made the cupcakes for the party!

Just simple cake mixed up and made into cupcakes and then topped with icing and red hearts!!!!

Austin got all kinds of valentines!

There was a fun craft that Fannie got together plus games!

The kids always love a class party and this was a sweet one!!!!

Happy Valentines to the fourth graders!!!!

Family Outing in the winter!

I did not plan a family vacation this winter but I still wanted to do something fun!  I knew there was a Lego Land somewhere in Philadelphia and Matthew loves Legos and the place looked exciting!  We also wanted to take the kids to a Flyers game!  So, we planned a day to be spent in Philly!

We met at our house and got my dad's sprinter van and we headed down towards Philadelphia at 11 AM.  (The ladies cleaned offices first in the AM.). We drove to the Lego Land and this huge giraffe greeted us at the entrance!!!!!

Lego Land is inside a mall and there was a store and then tickets to go into a museum to build with legos, see more creations out of Legos and tour this place of wonder.  It all looked amazing but we changed our minds about doing the tour and buying tickets for each of us.  This would have been super fun do as when the kids were smaller.  Now, they just wanted to look and not build so instead we walked around the mall and the littles did a bungee jumping activity!  They loved that!  This German shepherd dog made from Legos was very cool!!!!
 

We hopped in the van and drove to Reading Terminal Market!  I couldn't wait to show the kids around this market!  This was the first market that I worked out helping Daudy D in his drink stand!  It's still my favorite to visit!!!!

Uncle Sam and Anthony have the chicken BBQ stand there and we were given tons of wings for free!  We grabbed some drinks at Javon's drink stand!  Uncle Alvin and Keith gave us free chocolate covered strawberries and fudge!  Aunt Ruth said, "Merry Christmas" and left each of us pick something out from their candy stand!  Then, she gave us a box of donuts .... for free!  We ate BBQ ribs and cheesesteaks and gyros!  We had the time of our lives!!!!

We grabbed fresh carrot juices and smoothies and I got Matthew to take a shot of wheatgrass!

The market experience was SO FUN!!!!  Everyone loved it!

Back in the van and we were heading to the Flyers arena!  But, we were going to be a bit early and I quickly had Hadassah look up the Chiefs Corner Saloon that I knew was somewhere in the city.  (I forgot my phone on the charger at home.  Being all day without my phone was actually fun!  I just had everyone else take photos and look up information for GPS and parking!).  We didn't have far to this place and I just wanted Mike to get a chance to see this place!  

We pulled up curbside and Mike ran inside to check it out.  We didn't think the kids would be aloud to enter but when the owner heard that we were Chiefs fans they told us to park right along the street and all come in for a photo!

It was a tiny corner filled with all things Chiefs!  It was a bar so we were not going to be hanging out there long but it was cool to see!

The owner gave them each a sweatshirt with the Chiefs logo on it!!!!

Then we were off to the Flyers game!!!!!!  This was the first for the girls to watch a live game here in Phillie!  We ate Chickie Pete fries and cheered!!!!

Its always so fun when the team you are cheering for wins!!!!!!!

It was a looonnng day!  The snow came while we were watching the game and we drove home on icy roads.  It was midnight before we got to bed.  

BUT ... we had the best day!!!!!  We laughed and enjoyed each stop so much!!!!  I am so blessed to have a family that loves to be together and do outings like this!!!!!