Valentines and other stuff

Lately we've been watching lots of Olympics. Alexis and I made a makeshift torch to celebrate the opening ceremony. She was a bit worried when I told her what we were going to do--she didn't want fire on it. But, once she realized it was pretend she started running laps around the house proudly carrying her flame.

The kids had a last minute sleep-over. Although the friends are "Braeden's buddies" they are great about including Braxton and even Alexis in their fun. They were non-stop electronic junkies. I got a kick out of their picto-chat session. We learned some fun new girl crush info that became quite the source of contention.

We decided to make fun deserts for valentines day. It's always a learning process when we make something new but regardless of how they looked they were delicious!

We took the kids to the movies today for their V-day gift. We saw the chipmunk squeakquel. I will say that I'm glad we didn't pay full price to watch it but the kids said they liked it. Brian and I don't really get into the Valentines gift giving hoopla -not even cards. I've been having spring fever so I had him pick up my favorite flowers while he was at Sams

and we are gifting one another with a new vacuum cleaner soon --so romantic! But honestly we've been wanting this particular sweeper for years and it's amazing how much you really can want a new vacuum when the one you currently have no longer works very well!

Alexis pampered me with a manicure...

and insisted I needed another the following day when she discovered my nails were bare again. I settled on a pedicure on day 2 in a much more subtle shade.