Too Sweet

Baylen went out of his way this year to do something sweet for me for Valentines Day. He started planning a month ago and kept it a secret clear up until 1/2 hour before we were supposed to be to the restaurant. He planned with all my brother-in-laws and dad to take all us girls to The Roof. Baylen actually took me to this restaurant for our 5th year anniversary so I thought I'd used up my once in a lifetime there (it is a VERY expensive restaurant). However, I'm not complaining. The food is beyond incredible, and the view is beautiful.
The fact that we got to go with lots of my favorite people made it even more of a special day! None of my pictures of the whole group worked so I'll have to steal one from someone else and post it later.
We loved all the food but especially the creme brulee! Here's the evidence of how many we ate... I think the waitress actually took some of the bowls away before this pic!

It was an amazing night. Baylen has set the bar high for next year (smile)!

Baylen and I usually try to do our celebrating of Valentines Day on a day other than the real holiday so that we can spend Valentines Day with our kids. A few of our traditions include heart shaped pancakes for breakfast and a candle light salmon dinner later that evening.
When we lit the candles for dinner tonight, Ashlyn decided to serinade us with her rendition of Happy Birthday to you. It was really cute!

One new thing I decided to try this year was to make my own fortune cookies. They definitely weren't the prettiest looking cookies (not picture worthy) but they tasted really GOOD! I think I need to practice a little more before next year if I want to make this a tradition!

Cousins!

Wow, it's been a long time since I've blogged. I think that part of the problem (who am I kidding- MOST OF THE PROBLEM) is that I started my 2008 blog book and got incredibly frustrated with how complicated it was. I was hoping this blog stuff would be an easy way to scrapbook/journal. No such luck. But, I guess I'll keep blogging in hopes that somehow I'll figure out an easier, less time consuming way to get it printed.

Last week we had the opportunity to watch Morgan and Kayla while their parents were in Cancun. The kids had so much fun having them at our house. In fact, Hailey has now named all her dolls either Morgan or Kayla. Here are a few pictures of some of the things we had fun doing with them.

Making pizza and Valentines cookies

On Friday we went to the Utah/BYU gymnastics meet. I took all six kids over (we were supposed to meet Baylen there after he was done with work). We invited Banyan and their girls to go with us. As the kids and I were walking over to the Huntsman Center, a man stopped and asked if all those kids were mine. I guess I must have looked a little frazzled. Baylen didn't end up getting there until 10 minutes before it was over. Every time I think about it I have to laugh at what people must have thought about our group. I was on one end, Banyan was on the other, and we had 10 kids ages 11 and under between us. We were probably more of an entertainment to people then the actual meet. We had a lot of fun though (even if BYU's loss was really bad.)

None of my pictures worked but this one...
On Saturday we went swimming with Broman and Rachel's family.

One other thing we did was the Bounce Zone...