Its Valentine's Day !

Well, almost anyway! I took over the blogging responsibilities from Jake so we would post more often, but I don't think I've done a very good job. Olyvia was sick today so I took the day off from work to stay home with her and thought it might be a good day to give an update on our family! I kinda feel like a slacker because I have a lot I wanted to get done and catch up on, but instead I caught up on reading everyone's blog- It's great to see and read how everyone is doing!

Our big news for the week is that Monday Jake started a new job! Yeah! we were so excited when we found out last week he got this job. He is working for the West Jordan DI as a job trainer/coach. He gets to train associates with some usuable job skills. It is a big pay raise, and so far he is really enjoying it. The best part is we get a 15% discount at the DI- so if anyone needs anything let us know! j/k

Anyway, it's been a pretty good week-busy, but that's how you stay out of trouble, right?
I thought I would post a few pictures as well, hope you enjoy them!



This picture is from my brother Derek's wedding in December- it would have made a great picture for our Christmas card-which we never sent, but Doreen just barely e-mailed it to me.


Christena had to make a valentines box for school, and didn't want to just decorate a shoe box so Sunday we got creative and made this heart shaped box. After we made the box we put paper mache on it- Olyvia and Savannah also helped- believe me we were a mess! I wanted to take pictures but didn't dare touch my camera.

Since she was doing paper mache, Christena also decided she wanted to make it look like a pinata- so we used tissue paper to decorate it.

Saturday I decided it might be fun to decorate cookies for valentines day so we made the dough on Saturday, baked the cookies on Sunday and then decorated them on Monday night for family home evening- the kids had a lot of fun- unfortunately we ran out of frosting before we ran out of cookies, although we ran out of room in the container so maybe it was a good thing we ran out of frosting.

The kids went a little over board with the decorations!

This is the "double decker" Savannah decorated! She gave it to her teacher Tuesday at school.