Family pictures

We had these pictures taken last week and I am so pleased with how they turned out!

Romantic and funny and gross

The other day Alexa said to me, "Mommy, do you want to know what happened at school today that was romantic and funny and gross?" Naturally my curiosity was peaked so I said, "sure!" She began by saying, "well, me and Isaac looked at eachother..." and at this point I'm thinking, "that little boy better not have kissed my daughter!!!!" I calmly smiled and nodded as she continued, "we looked at eachother and smiled." Phew, breathe again Marianne! I just smiled and remembered the days when I thought smiling at a cute boy in school was romantic and funny and gross.

So funny!

This picture requires no explanation...it just makes me laugh! (And laugh, and laugh, and laugh!)

Valentine's Day

This post comes a little late, but I wanted to post some pictures of our Valentine's Day. We decided to spend the evening with the girls and make homemade pizza for dinner. We had so much fun just being together and eating our oh-so romantic candlelight dinner of homemade pizza.

This is the girls in their new Valentine's Day jammies.

Draper Temple Open House

Tonight we took the girls to the Draper Temple Open House with my parents. Wow, what a beautiful temple it is! I loooooved the chandelier in the Celestial Room, and the matching, miniature versions in the Sealing rooms. I loved that my girls were able to see inside the temple and to gain a little testimony of their own. When we were driving home I asked Alexa and Grace what their favorite parts were. Alexa said, "that reverent room where people kneel down and get married. And the reverent room with the big chandelier." What a sweet girl. Grace said, "the cookies and the water." That's my Grace!

Little moment

After dinner tonight we blasted the music and the girls and I just danced and danced. We were singing, and laughing, and jumping around and it was so much fun! Alexa and Grace kept saying, "this is the best night ever!" Lately I've been so busy with school and homework (not to mention the usual things around the house!) that I feel like I haven't spent a lot of quality time with my girls. This half-hour of dancing and singing made me realize that it only takes a few minutes to let them know how much I reeeallly love them. I love being a mommy!