Valentine's, Birthdays, and Spring Break, OH MY!

Valentine's Day 2009:

We had a great Valentine's Day. We had Josh and Dina, and Dave and Melissa over for a little dinner and some games. Here's a few pics of the par-tay, I didn't get pics of our guests, I'm so rude...
I tried my sewing skills again and made the table runner. It was kinda fun. Pretty easy, just took more time than I had remembered.


We got out the fancy dishes and gold flatware. It was fun to eat on them. We haven't used them in a LONG time.


As most of you know, it is our birthday month. All of our birthdays are within a month... KynnLee 2/19, Trevor 2/24, Karie 3/12, Jaden 3/23. Well, 2 down, 2 to go. Here's how the princess's first birthday went down...

A couple weeks before her birthday, I consulted my "cake specialist" (Laurie) and we decided that the princess needed a castle cake for her birthday. It was pretty cool, if I do say so myself. I don't own any fancy cake stuff, as a matter of fact I don't have ANY cake stuff. So it was a little rough around the edges, but it was fun.
Since both kids were still kinda sick, we took it easy all day. But what else do you do for a first birthday? She thought it was pretty cool when we all sang to her and Jaden helped her blow out the candle. She got a doll stroller, and a kitchen set for her birthday. Fun, fun!

Trevor was lucky enough to have his birthday during test week. He spent the ENTIRE day studying. His friends and I surprised him at school with pizza and cupcakes (a BIG thanks to Dina and Julie!). And then he decided to pull an all-nighter and study all night. I don't know how they can function like that.

Well, test week is all over and now it's SPRING BREAK!! We'll be sure to get lots of pics of our adventures. Today we kinda took it easy, did some cleaning, had to have Trevor's lemon... I mean car... towed. Sounds like it might need a whole new engine... thank goodness for warranties. Now we're going to eat dinner, put the kids to bed, and watch THE BACHELOR! Yeah baby!