Valentines Day... and whatever else I want to write about...

By Andy

So, today is Valentines Day, and as with all other holidays (real, imagined, or ridiculous) in our home, we like to celebrate. You can look here for one of Kizzie's awesome decorations. She also made a Valentines Day advent calendar using her mad-Cricut skills. I think she is more of a machine than the Cricut... a machine of awesome-ness.
Anywho... I digress. Earlier this week, Avery helped us out with making some sugar cookies. I enjoy sugar cookies.

Also, this should be no surprise that both my boys also enjoyed them.

A few days later, Kizzie got her gift. (She told me she likes lilies... she got lilies.)

On the big day, Kizzie made us pink pancakes in the morning, with the obligatory Mickey Mouse shaped ones for the boys (there would have been heart-shaped ones.... but I broke the rubber heart pancake mold a few weeks ago. It was not as strong as I thought it was.) Kizzie also made us a tasty roast beef dinner and the bad-boys shown below (and that's right... that's milk chocolate with white chocolate swirls!).

After our nice long drive up Provo Canyon, Kizzie had a mysterious (to the boys, at least) trip around the block she had to make. Oddly enough, after she was gone for about a minute, there was a knock on the door. I asked Avery to go open it only to find that no one was waiting outside. There were some treats though. Woohoo! We always need more treats! Strangely again was that Kizzie returned home only minutes after she left.

Avery was being a Jedi this afternoon, I did not make him wear that outfit just for this picture.... though I totally might on another occasion, so watch out!

Jack was very excited by his special surprise. He seemed to really enjoy eating the box as well.

On a side note, this is a picture of Avery (wearing a paper/yarn heart necklace he made in primary today) playing my new iPod touch I got last month after my former iPod kicked the proverbial bucket. This kid will do just about anything for an opportunity to play with it. He's pretty cute sitting there playing the games, so we allow it.

On another side note... my last day of classes ever is 2 months from yesterday. I think that is reason for additional excitement and/or gifts.

On a third side note, and one that I'm pretty sure no one reading this will care about, we watched the NBA Slam Dunk contest and some of the other All-Star festivities last night. It was about as lame as I've ever seen. Maybe some day they'll get actual good players that people like to be in that contest again. Oh well.