Happy Heart Day!!

I love Valentine's Day!! I know it is a made up holiday but really, what can be bad about a day spent loving those around you :) The last few years have been even more fun because I love how much fun Chase has with it. Getting his school Valentine's ready and getting little gifts for him and Brady - I just think it's wonderful. Craig and I have never made it about gifts so I don't feel like it is a high pressure holiday - just a day to slow down from our crazy hectic lives to make sure we show how much we care!

This Valentine's I was a little sad because I had to be away for work but I arranged it so I flew back home about 5:30 and made it home by 6:30 that night - just in time to still celebrate with my boys. I got all Chase's Valentine's ready before I left, laid out the boys matching shirts, and tried to be as prepared as possible before leaving.

Valentine's morning I got the best text in the world... it said "Happy Valentine's Mommy" with this picture:


Definitely started off my day perfectly! I had a great work day and was so excited to get home to my boys!

I tried to get a couple pictures of Chase & Brady in their matching "Handsome Little Devil" shirts but this was the best I could manage - lol!





I walked in the kitchen to find flowers, cards, wine and jury duty - lol :)


My boys definitely spoiled me with sweet cards and the flowers were absolutely GORGEOUS!!


Chase and Brady got some candy and stuffed animals and Craig got some 90 Shilling beer - lol - we are very practical at Valentines. Forget the chocolate - we buy each other alcohol :)


Brady's presents from his babysitter, Michelle and her daughter Zoey - so sweet! She made a little picture frame for us, gave him a puppy and made some cookies :)


After putting Brady down we made pizza for dinner and then had our 2nd annual Valentine's fondue dessert! It was delicious and very fun to eat together. I think Chase ate 3 times more than Craig or I - lol!


Hope everyone had a very Happy Valentine's Day! I am certainly blessed to have so much love in my life.

Cousins

A few weekends ago we got together with all the cousins and celebrated Brad's 40th Birthday. I didn't take too many pictures but wanted to post a few cute ones I got of the cousins spending time together...

Snow Days

Last Thursday a huge snow storm hit Denver and we got about 12 inches of snow in 24 hours! It was so fun watching it fall like crazy and build up into massive amounts around the house!






The best part about getting so much snow is that we knew we would get to go sledding that upcoming weekend!

Getting the boys bundled up and ready to go sledding...




Poor Brady was so bundled up that he fell over and couldn't get back up!


Outside with my boys heading to the sledding hill by our house...


The snow was so deep that poor Chase kept getting stuck so he hopped on the sled and Craig dragged him - lol


Carson & Chase


The boys doing some sledding (for some reason I was too busy with Brady that I didn't get any great action shots...)



Last picture I had to include - look how crazy the snow formed in this Santa Hat figure outside our upstairs window!

Zoo Day!

Last Sunday we decided to take full advantage of some good weather and headed to the zoo to spend some times outdoors. The boys loved being outside and walking around to see all the different animals. Brady was so funny because he would stare at the animals and point at them as they walked around - definitely was very curious. Chase was interested for about an hour and then the last hour he was mostly concerned with making sure we would go on the carousol before we left :) We were lucky because a lot of the animal were out and active...the only animals we noticed were kind of mellow were the monkeys. They must not like the cold weather!

Chase posing in front of some animals but they moved before I could get the picture- lol


Chase checking out the lion!


Daddy & Brady in the lion viewing room


Family shots with the giraffes



Daddy & Chase with the camels


Time to ride the carousol!