Valentine's Day

We had a great Valentine's day. It was fun having Jared with us for the whole day. We started out with heart pancakes. Actually, the heart shape wasn't working out too well for us, so we just drew hearts in the pancakes.

That afternoon, we finally tried out the cotton candy machine that Grandpa and Grandma gave the kids for Christmas.


Jared and I love to go out on a date when we have a chance and always enjoy going to a nice dinner together, but neither of us have any desire to fight the crowds on Valentines's night so we started a tradition a few years ago of making a heart shaped pizza for our Valentine dinner.

With the kids both in bed by 8:00 we still had pleanty of time to enjoy our Valentine's Day. I know a lot of people do extravagant or expensive things for each other, but I think the perfect Valentine's day doesn't require either of those things. Jared built a nice fire and had some "vintage 1908 sparkling cider" for us. He told me some very romantic things such as, we've been together for one twentieth of a century. I hadn't realized it had been so long. Not everyone is lucky enough to find a love that last so long. Anyway, with the perfect mood set we sat by the fire and discussed politics (the stimulus package) and went to sleep.

I love having such a romantic husband.

The kids felt very loved this Valentine's day. Grandpa Hatfield sent me and them some valentine's chocolates and of course those were a big hit with everyone!

Papa and Nini sent the kids both a little baby doll V-day gift as well. They've had a great time taking care of the babies.

Bradley -Elmo

Bradley really likes it when we take his picture. He was purposely hamming it up for this one. (My sisters would probably tell you he gets that from me.)

This is Bradley and Mackayla putting on Family Home Evening for us. Mackayla had everyone open their hymn books and then we sang Old McDonald had a farm. Bradley was in charge of the lesson and taught us to love all of Heavenly Father's creatures, such as all the animals he had with him on the couch.

The other day while Jared was on his way home from work, Mackayla and I decided to give Bradley a new hairdo to suprise Daddy. He looked so cute. Jared's responce was "oh, you poor little guy!"

Mackayla gave her first talk in Primary today!! She did a great job and didn't act nervous at all, which kind of suprised Jared and me. Grandma really wanted to hear her talk, so we took a video of her practicing right before church. Its hard to hear, and a little long, so this video might not be of interest to anyone besides her grandparents. :)

Back to the Blogging Again

I've been too tired to do anything productive once the kids are in bed lately, which is why I haven't been keeping up on our family blog albumn. I'm into the second trimester now and rarely feel sick anymore, so I really have nothing to complain about. I hope to start getting a little more energy back now though. I'm at that FUN stage where I can no longer button any of my pants but still a long ways from filling out any maternity clothes! I'm actually really excited about getting bigger and digging out the maternity clothes. I can't wait to start feeling our little baby moving around. Desptite ALL the hard things that come with pregnancy I really do love being pregnant. :)

Here are some pictures from the last few weeks.

Mackayla and Bradley are still the best of friends. This is a picture of them watching sesame street together at 6am. We're very grateful that sesame street comes on at 6am because we can always turn it on for them and then lay on the couch and try to sleep until at least 7. Unfortunatly, they are up almost everyday to see at least the second half of it.

Reading books together after a bath.

Enjoying their superbowl party. They got to have a picnic with our homemade pizza since neither Jared nor I wanted to leave the game to sit at the table with them.

Sitting in their favorite chair.

Bradley LOVES having his picture taken.

You can see in this picture that Bradley is yelling "Cheese" as he waits for me to take his picture.

He's doing a little fishing for Family Home Evening afer a lesson on what it means to be fishers of men.

We were so happy last week that April and her family were able to come visit us for one night.
This is Mackayla and Jaden saying goodbye.


Logan and Bradley sharing a goldfish snack.

Thanks for coming Holts!