Happy Valentine's Day to me!

This year my present was a day with no kids! Not a very romantic Valentine's Day, but really great! I went to see the Valentine's Day movie with our friend, Gin, and then went to the Temple by myself that night. Neil, took the kids up to Red Rock ALL BY HIMSELF. They spent several hours up there with no lunch and only a few snacks! Even when I was home, the girls were taking a nap! Good job Neil!

"Who's Your Paddy?"

It was my birthday last week and Neil got me this shirt...it say's "Who's Your Paddy?" For some reason it is very funny to him and he was really proud of it!

Neil also got me a new camera. It's a little one with 10.1 megapixels, which is a big upgrade from our old 4 mp camera that never seemed to get a clear picture! Here are a few pics from the new camera!

I love this picture because of how Ellie is looking at Payton. I don't have very many mental pictures of them being happy, nice and loving with each other...I mostly think of them hitting, biting and pushing each other. So I'm glad I have this actual picture to remind me that they do love each other...sometimes.

We went to the Bass Pro Shops

Payton

It's been raining here a lot the last week or so, here's Max in his "rain clothes" getting soaked!

This is Ellie with her bubble bath beard! The girls are finally talking more and can say about anything now although most of the time they still like to just scream at me. But they both love to say "bubble bath".

Broken Leg Update

BEFORE: The kids all had a great time coloring on Ellie's cast, including Ellie! I had a hard time keeping the magic markers away from them.

Ellie got her cast off last week! She's doing great and was walking on it within an hour of getting the cast off. She runs, jumps and does whatever she wants. She still has a slight limp every once in a while, but it doesn't slow her down much!

AFTER: We went swimming last weekend, that's Ellie on the left!

CHRISTMAS...finally!

It's only January 19th...we just got the christmas lights down and the boxes put away yesterday! So here are the christmas pictures...finally.

Ellie is on the left, Payton in purple on the right.

We were so glad that Grandma and Grandpa Woolf came to spend Christmas with us! (Shame on all you other Woolfs that didn't come!)

Ellie and Payton love their computers from Grandma and Grandpa Woolf and their crawling/laughing/farting babies from Angie and Nathan. What a hit! They love to play with those babies!

The girls also love their new quilts from Grandma Mano! (Mom, now I see that Payton's was the pink one...I'll have to remember that!)

And of course, the giant Millenium Falcon! Whew, Christmas was so much fun!

But a few days ago Max was thinking about all of his new toys and said to me, "Mom, what did you get me for Christmas?" Oh Max, you weren't supposed to notice that!

Even more Holiday fun...

We finally made it to the Bellagio's Christmas display and were not disappointed!

Payton especially enjoyed trying to figure out how she could get to all of that chocolate in the chocolate fountain!

We went to Utah for New Years and the kids had lots of fun with all of their aunties, uncles, cousins and Grandma and Grandpa.