Young love

Following our yearly tradition, we had a few friends over to read Corduroy's Valentine's Day and make Valentines.  Always fun to find glitter for days after!

Then a few days before Valentine's Day, we had some special visitors!  My sister Allie and her "special friend" (aka boyfriend) came to visit for a few days.  We were glad they made it because they were flying out of Washingtone DC, which was pretty much buried in snow.

Meet Matt.  The boys were happy to have a substitute wrestle buddy while Dad was at work.

On Friday, we all went up to Brighton for the kids first ever ski adventure.  We figured it was a good time to go since we had a few extra hands!  We had Sunrise with us, so Thunder and I took turns staying with him in the lodge.  Cloudburst, Sunshine and Tornado all took ski lessons and did great!  I was pretty surprised that they were actually skiing by the end of the evening.  I haven't been skiing myself in over 10 years, and it was great to get up to the mountains again.  I think Thunder and I will have to make a date and go again.  I'm not sure I can handle all the rug rats more than once a year!

Then on Saturday Thunder was able to score some awesome seats to a BYU basketball game.  After sitting next to Tornado for the game, Matt declared that he could be fine with raising just one child some day!  The kids enjoyed yelling to their heart's content and loved the half time chocolate fountain.  And we only spilled 4 bins of popcorn!

This was a common sight at our house when ever there was a spare moment.  Matt gets a thumbs-up from me for being able to handle all the kids!

This year's winter has been unusually mild, so we went outside and jumped on the tramp.

Get him Allie! 

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.  Or as Sunshine said when they kissed once, "eeeeew."

This young lady is now 7 years old today!  I'll post more after I upload the pics from her birthday party tomorrow.

And this is Thunder's new BFF.  Yes, it's an iPod touch.  We never had iPods before, but got one for Valentine's Day.  It is pretty addicting.

This is Allie: former gymnast, math teacher, world traveler, goofy giggler!

And me with the kiddies.  It was such a nice night.

Thanks for coming to visit us guys, we all had a blast!

Sunrise wanted to get up and move so bad that his nose started running.  {har, har}

And this sweet baby wrote me this lovely note!

And I had to show you my beautiful roses!  It was a mix of roses and lilies and smelled divine.  Thunder also cooked the most delicious dinner by grilling fillet mignon.  Yes, the weather really is pretty good these days!

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