Valentine's Day was big time at our house. It all began on Tuesday when I was in charge of games at our Primary party, where we made over 100 valentines! The celebrations continued on Thursday at parties for both Cooper's class and Sammi's and Scotti's class. Scotti and Cooper made paper airplane valentines for their friends, and Sammi made butterflies. We made a whole bunch of Valentines at home, which made a big mess, and then made a whole bunch of cookies, which made an even bigger mess. Here are some pictures of the creative process with the cookies. The highlights of the holiday for us were when we went around Elma with the Doyles handing out Valentines to people in the streets and stores and at the senior center. Then, an even more exciting event was delivering plates of cookies to our friends from secret admirers (us.) The delivering required much sneakiness and everyone enjoyed the high of trying not to get caught. (Although, we often did.)
FABULOUS JACKSON HAPPENINGS THIS WEEK:
Big time events at the Jacksons this week: Everett put his first pee pee in the potty. Seriously, I couldn't believe it. Yesterday, he came to me tugging at his clothes, saying "bathroom!" I thought, what the heck, we'll introduce him to the potty. I took off his clothes and stood him in front of the potty. Lo and behold, a steady stream of pee pee made it directly into the potty. I have never seen Everett so excited. The picture below is of Everett pointing in the potty at his pee pee saying "Pee pee mommy! Pee pee! Potty!" He went again several times yesterday. I'm so proud.
I just realized that when Sammi gets her hair done, she thinks I'm working on her "hair-dude" instead of her hairdo. It's so cute, that I just haven't corrected her.
You should have seen Scotti sneak those cookies to people's houses this week. He was so serious, so stealthy, so swift, but then while we were hiding, he could barely hold his mouth hard enough for the laughter that kept escaping. He is such a fast runner too!
Cooper learned about appropriate wintertime dress, and now gets himself dressed every day in either a summer outfit with a winter outfit over it, or a winter outfit with shorts and a t-shirt on top. He loves it that he is always prepared for either season! I love it that I don't have to worry about getting him dressed!
I forgot to mention that last week we had our house painted, lights installed, and countertops put into our cabinets. Our house is feeling like OURS, and I love it here. What a blessing to live in such a nice place.
Wow,you guys had a very busy Valentine's Day! It's so cool you guys gave out Valentine's all over town. What a fun way to celebrate the holiday. Tell Everett good job from me, and please post some pics of your house. I'd love to see how it's coming together.
ReplyDeleteJulie you crack me up! I love reading all your adventures..I felt like I was right there with you guys getting caught sneaking Valentines to friends! So I was at Grandma's house the other day and she was showing me your blog. In one of your posts you talked about getting after your kids at bedtime (yelling or something). Grandma was reading it and said, "Julie you don't do that!" I thought it was funny. She loves your kids and gave each of their pictures a kiss. I didn't realize you had a blog, so I remembered your link and added you to my list of blogs to visit. You can check my blog out too at:
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I am not as good as at blogging as you are, though...sorry...
Anyway, when is the next time you come to Utah to visit?
Love,
Sarah...your cuz
That is so funny that Sarah said the thing about Grandma because I was at her house just before Valentines Day and she showed my mom and I your blog (I had already read the post, so I didn't read it there). She said it didn't sound like you to yell at your kids. I said, "I've been there. I totally know where she is coming from. Sometimes it's all you feel like you can do." She said, "Well, I raised eight kids and never yelled at them." I don't know how she did it.
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