Monday, February 21, 2011

Love Day, and Other Stuff

Rob & Kandis watched our kids for us while we went on a date for Valentines (Thanks guys!). We went to Cafe Trang for dinner, then came home and watched our favorite Tosh.O episodes.
On Valentines Day we gave the boys a little Valentine in a bucket (treats, monkey, mickey mouse sucker). Ethan is holding his monkey and the rose Ben brought home for me. Ben surprised me on our Valentine date...He went to Shane Co. Thanks Ben (I wasn't going to put that on my blog, but it really meant a lot to me because Ben hates buying jewelry!)


I went and helped at Ryan's Valentine Party at school. All the kids had a great time. I remember LOVING the holiday parties when I was a kid.


Valentine Bingo

The boys are always good helpers when I need vegetables peeled. They're so cute!

Ben and I started taking the boys out on individual "dates" every month. We trade off the boys, and let them choose what they want to do. This month it was my turn to go with Ethan. We went and got sandwiches, then went to Ethan and my favorite cake store, "Nothing Bundt Cakes". Ben took Ryan to Wendy's and then to Wal-Mart to get a small Lego toy to build together. We love our Dates! And they think it's pretty cool too.

Ethan has been into being a pirate lately. Here he is showing us his mad skills.


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I have 3 Brothers in the Military:
Jud-Marine
Brant-National Guard
Kit-Marine



Kit left today.

He was deployed.

We love you Uncle Kit! Please come home safe.

















And hopefully your beautiful wife Lynzie will be okay without you.

5 comments:

Jeff L Harris said...

See the "Empty Nesters" Post for more on deployment pics. Love the kids date nights Kel, we should have done something like that with you kids.

Jeff L Harris said...

Jeff and Sheri post for more on Kit sorry, thought it said Empty Nesters!

Sara B. Larson said...

I want to see what he got you from Shane Co.! ;) Your boys are so cute, and getting so big.

And I hope your brothers will all be safe, especially Kit. What an amazing family.

Awesome Oettli's said...

i love the date night with the kids idea too, now that I'll be the mother of two boys I may steal your idea in a few years.

Awesome Oettli's said...

ps- I'm gonna check out your parents blog for more info