Tuesday Bradley had preschool. He got to have a Valentine's party. They did all their usual stuff, but for craft they got to make Valentine holders and everyone took Valentines for everyone else. I had our in house graphic designer work up a little something and they turned out great!!! They had a cute monster that we glued a wiggly eye to and they said I have my eye on you. They were double sided too. He had a really fun time exchanging Valentines with everyone. Alan taught class for his advisor again that morning. In the afternoon Connor went back to the doctor. Lauren and Bradley were really good the day before, but had a harder time Tuesday. It was also a longer appointment. They did several blood tests on the poor little guy. They didn't get enough from the first arm so they had to poke his other one too. He did get his first dum dum, but it did help him much. He also had to have a urine test done too. It wore both of us out! After getting Jared, I started making Valentine cookies. We all went to juggling club that night. Jared got to be interviewed for BYU Weekly. A show they do on BYU tv. He has a fun little interview and it shows him riding his unicycle. I made more cookies when we got home.
Working on his Valentines
Alan made them double sided. It's hard to tell in this picture but the heart on the outside has a monster bite out of it. :)
Connor likes to color Bradley's papers when Brad is done.
His little carrier is stuffed!
Wednesday Bradley, Connor, and I went to the library for story time...and no one got lost. When we got home I made one more double batch of cookies and then started frosting them. I just worked on cookies all day...as much as Connor would let me. Jared and Lauren finished up their Valentines for their classes. I went to a Relief Society meeting in the evening. I stayed up a little late, but I got all of the cookies done.
Here are the Valentines Jared and Lauren took. I forgot to get a picture of them working on them, but they worked hard and colored them real nice.
Thursday was Valentine's Day. Jared and Lauren had a fun time delivering cookies to their teachers and other people around the school. We dropped Alan off so he could take cookies to his lab and advisor. Then we headed over to help in Lauren's class. We got to help at the cookie decorating station. They had little heart cookies and 3 different flavors of pink frosting to choose from. I'm not sure the last time I looked at all the frosting flavors at the store....if ever. I had no idea they made pink lemonade frosting ...which was the most popular (other choices were cherry and strawberry). We worked on packaging the cookies up and delivered as many as we could. After Jared got home we delivered a few more. We saved a few for Alan to deliver when he got home. We had a simple dinner of spaghetti and broccoli. It was a good fun day!
Part of the cookies I made.
Friday I went and helped in Jared class and Brad and Connor went to a friend's. We met Jared at the library after school for another storytelling workshop. There were also talent show tryouts after school too. By the time we got home it was about Jared's regular get home from school time. We were excited it was the start of a long weekend! That night these guys worked hard and earned some fun tickets. We watched Ratatouille and had yummy homemade pizza and popcorn. It was kind of a late night but we had a lot of fun.
A train track they were proud of.
Saturday morning we got to go to a baptismal preview. There were 4 kids (there would be one more but they decided to switch to the family ward already) there who will get baptized this year. It seems like a lot for our ward. I did some cleaning up in the back bedroom that is mostly storage. It was so nice outside that these other guys were able to play out there for quite a while. Almost the whole time the laundry was going. We all went to winco and hurried home and ate dinner. We went to the men's basketball game that night. They played Portland.
Bradley sleeping in a banana box...He isn't really sleeping, but he wanted to take a nap in it.
They were making all kinds of things!
Do these look familiar?
Look what finally fits!
Saturday night Jared had a fever after we got home from the game. He still wasn't feeling well Sunday morning and even threw up a little. Alan wasn't feeling well either so they both stayed home. We had planned on cooking a turkey and since it was defrosted we cooked it anyway. Jeff and Elisabeth came over to eat with us too. Jared was feeling better and ate 2 plates of food. I was glad we had saved a turkey ( and a bag of cranberries) in the freezer, but I'm glad to have that freezer space now.
It looks like it was a fun Valentine's Day week (or more) at your house!
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