Happy Valentine's Day

We actually celebrated Valentine's Day with a Date Night!  Danny and I were both home by 3:00 so our wonderful babysitter (neighborhood girl our kid's love) came over and off we went.  The idea was to leave early to beat all the crowds but it was still crazy busy at the restaurants.  First we went to BYU to the "Sacred Gifts" art exhibit.  If you haven't seen it yet you should!  Then we drove around BYU for a little bit.  I have not been there since 2006 so it has changed A LOT.  The roads are different and there are a lot of new buildings.

Then we were going to go to Outback Steakhouse but they had a two hour wait time so we walked over to Chuck-a-rama and got right in.  Danny was excited it was seafood night.  We told our babysitter we would be home by 8 to put the kids to bed but we got done with dinner at 7 so we just went and walked around a few stores then went home.  It was a great night with just the two of us for a change.  We don't do it very often.

The kids had fun at their preschool Valentine's Day party sharing valentines with all their friends.  They also got a package from Grandma Thorpe.  My kids are the cutest!

 Danny doesn't get me flowers very often but he surprised me on Valentine's day with flowers and chocolate and he had done all the dishes and cleaned the house by the time I got home.  LOVE!

 The weather has been so nice we have been going on bike rides and playing at the park!

Had a fun experience on Monday…I had the day off so I was upstairs in my room watching a movie and the DVD player started making a loud popping sound and then it caught on fire.  FUN ADVENTURE!  It was really old (like 10 years) so I am sure it was too old but luckily it didn't damage anything else.  Fun times.

                                            Hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day.

Croup and a Birthday!

CROUP!
Out dear sweet Kayzee Lynn got croup and she was having a hard time breathing for about 4 days.  She was quite the sad little girl.  Sunday Jan 19 both Memphis and Kayzee woke up with croupy sounding coughs so I stayed home with them while Danny taught our Primary class.  That night they were both still coughing so they slept in my room with me and I set up our cool mist humidifier.  By morning Memphis was 100% better but Kayzee started getting worse.  I didn't have school that day which was nice so Kayzee just stayed in my room all day with the humidifier.  I wanted to take her into the dr but they were not open that day.  Monday night she got even worse.  I spent 10 minutes every hour sitting outside on our front porch.  She just couldn't breathe in my room and being outside was the only thing that helped her.  And of course it was only like 10 degrees.  BRRRR!  Getting no sleep that night was no fun!

Tuesday my friend took Memphis to preschool and I took Kayzee to the pediatrician.  YEP she had croup!  They diagnosed her right away and she had a very high fever.  Once again Kayzee started screaming as soon as the male pediatrician walked in the room.  We had to have 2 people hold her down while the nurse gave her the shot of steroids to open up her airways.  That night I didn't get any sleep again and because of Kayzee's fever we stayed home from school on Wednesday too.  Thursday we were all back to normal and back in school.  I am just glad it happened that weekend instead of the next when everyone was coming for Memphis' birthday!

Kayzee's crazy hair!

 MEMPHIS' 5th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS!
We celebrated Memphis turning 5 for almost a week.  What a lucky boy!  I still cannot believe I have a 5 year old and that I am registering him for kindergarten!!!  He was definitely loved by all and he had fun.  Wednesday Jan 29 my parents flew in from Washington.  I love my parents and am so glad they could come visit to help Memphis celebrate.  That night we went out to eat Memphis' favorite food…pizza.  We went to Pier 49 pizza.  YUM!

Memphis' Auntie Sheesha, Great-Grandma and Grandpa Astle, and Great-Grandma and Grandpa Christensen all gave him money for his birthday so we took him to the store and this is the nerf gun he picked out.  Thanks for the money everyone!

Thursday Jan 30 was Memphis' actual birthday.  It was snowing when we left for school and I took him to the store to pick out some cupcakes to take to his preschool to celebrate and he picked snowflake ones.  He got spoiled at school too.  He got presents from his teachers and he got to be first in line all day.  He loved it.  That night we went to Arctic Circle for dinner and then we headed over to play at Kangaroo Zoo (big bouncy blow up play houses and slides).  He went there last year for his birthday he loves that place.  He invited his friends the Barnes' family to come play with him.  

 Friday Jan 31 we had a birthday party with cake and ice cream for him at our house with a bunch of family.  My cousin Aja and her family and 4 kids showed up.  Memphis loves playing with the boys.  My aunt Sandra, grandma and grandpa Astle, my parents, and Danny's brother Teddy and his wife Brit showed up as well.  Thanks to all for coming and for the presents.  Memphis is loving all the gifts he got.  And thanks Grandma and Grandpa Royer for the gift too!  Memphis is SPOILED! We did a homemade cake from scratch.  BEST CAKE EVER!  Better than a box cake bought from a store.  He loved the colored flame candles.  Memphis said he wanted CHOCOLATE so we had chocolate ice cream, and chocolate cake with chocolate icing.  I was in heaven:)

 We set up his big jump-o-lene so all the kids could jump and play and that night he wanted to sleep in it.

 Sat Feb 1 we went to the hotel my parent's were staying in and went swimming!  My kids love swimming so we had so much fun.   Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Thorpe for coming and having fun with us!  They left to go back to Washington that evening.

 Kayzee asleep at the top of the stairs.  Kayzee is a mommy's girl and I left to go grocery shopping and she cried for awhile and then fell asleep.

 Happy 5th Birthday Memphis…WE LOVE YOU!