Valentine's Day Houses

Happy Valentine's Day! While the holiday can be very commercial it's always nice to have a special day to sit back and reflect about the ones you love. Isaiah and I feel so lucky to have each other as Valentines!

So...for the fun stuff. Usually we like to get together with our neighbors around Christmas and do gingerbread houses. Last Christmas we were all so busy we didn't get the chance so instead we got together to make Valentine houses! It was so much fun! I think this should be our new tradition since Valentines is a much less hectic holiday!

Kaylee (next to Isaiah) is making a funny sad face because her house broke. She is always so ambitious when we do houses. She built a dresser and a bed in her house.

Alyssa's house turned out so cute. I love that she decided to peek through the roof in the picture.

Brookie's tactic was to put as much candy and frosting on as possible. She was so cute. Before we started she decided we would make our houses for each other. Whenever I added candy to my house she would say "Thanks! I was hoping you would do that!" What a cutie!

Isaiah and I love these girlies! Their parents tell us all the time that the girls pray that a birth mom will place their baby with us. Alyssa hopes we will get a girl but we would be happy with either :) We appreciate all the help their sweet prayers give us!

Thanks Scott and Melissa for letting us make a mess in your house! We had tons of fun!

Happy Valentines Everyone!!

Generational Gap: Observation 1 (of many I'm sure)

So last Wednesday I attended my first mutual activity with my Beehives. Coming into Young Women's I thought - this is great, I'm not that much older than these girls and will able to really relate to them, right?

One of our girl's mom is the Beehive advisor. Her daughter was teasing her about LOVING Bon Jovi. I figured these girls would think I was cool because in highschool I was post-Bon Jovi and I listened to 'NSYNC.

That's were I was wrong. When I said I loved 'NSYNC in highschool they said - Who?

Who?! How can they not know who 'NSYNC is?! So much for trying to be cool :)


I'll probably need to dust off my old CDs and photo albums for another mutual activity. Maybe we can talk about the "oldies" and I'll educate them on the boy bands that helped pave the way for the Jonas Brothers.

I'm sure they'd be so impressed with this picture from my first 'NSYNC concert (yes I went to more than one :)



And they'd also think I'm super cool because 'NSYNC decorated the inside of my locker :) (Isaiah will be so embarassed I posted this. If any potential birth moms read this post please know I'm way cooler now :) (LOL)


Really I should have done my homework. My girls were between the ages of 3 and 6 when these pictures were taken. Wow, we really are getting old!

I imagine this will be the first of many observations of the generational gap between my 26 year old self and these hilarious beehives!