Dances, toenails and decorating

So, just yesterday, Katelyn and I took a little drive to look at some car seats for the new baby and when we returned, we had such a surprise! I saw these footsteps that mysteriously led back to our room.


















I opened our bedroom door and what a surprise! My cute Dave was asking me to a dance we were going to on Valentine's Day! Let's be honest, I was only asked to one dance in High School and so I was pretty excited and just all smiles. :) How cute is he??


















Dave was already teaching his class when I saw his masterpiece. Luckily I knew he would be teaching for three hours, so I had plenty of time to plan my reply. Ha ha haaaa! What to do, what to do... I'm not very good at planning these things, but I came up with something that made him smile.

When he arrived home that evening, there was a heart with candy bars attached to the front door leading him to go play the Wii. After some encouragement that he should play right then and could wait to eat, he went downstairs to find the Wii. It led him on a scavenger hunt to three other places in the house and finally back to our room where I had this waiting...












I think he liked it. :) A lemon cake with strawberries. A favorite of his.


















Sweet! :)

On another subject, if you've ever been 7 months pregnant before, you know it can get a bit difficult to reach your feet. (And yes, I'm still wearing flip flops in the snow when I can get away with it.) Well, my dear friend Heidi was over the other night and she gave me the treat of my life and painted my toenails for me. That's friendship. Well, of course Katelyn was excited for a part of the action and so we painted her nails for the first time. She absolutely loves them and loves to take off her socks and show people her pretty pink nails. What a cutie.












And here's my last picture. Ta da! I made something! I had so much fun making this for Katelyn's room! And thanks to Joy for taking the adorable pictures last year. (Yes, I need some new updated ones, but these were SO cute so I had to still use them.) I painted the frames and letter "K" brown and then modge podged some scrapbook paper to them. They will go right above Katelyn's crib as soon as I attach the ribbons. :) They haven't fallen apart yet, so Martha Stewart, watch out.

Tutus and igloos

What a cutie. Katelyn received this adorable hand-me-down tutu and has been loving it. In fact, it was the first thing that she actually asked me to put on her.












This is a good story. Katelyn is so good at helping me clean up messes. We sing a little clean up song and she'll put things away that she's gotten out to play with. Well, she loves to play with the arm covers on her Grandma's wing back chair and when I asked her to put them away the other day, this is what I got. Upside down and backwards, but they're both the same. What a girl.












Katelyn's uncle Jared built this very cool igloo in the backyard and she absolutely loved taking trips outside to sit on it and play in it.












I hope they call me on a mission...












Happy 10 year anniversary Dave!! Yes, we're getting older because not only has it been 10 years since Dave left, but it's been 10 years since he returned. We had to take a picture to commemorate the occasion.

A little of everything

Dave's mom has a nice Valentine's dinner before the big day every year and this year bought some balloons for decoration. Katelyn LOVED them.



Katelyn has found the cutest monkey puppet that makes monkey noises if you push the button in the mouth. Over Christmas, my dad taught her how to sound like a monkey and as you can see, it's come in very handy. :)



We were lucky enough to visit the Draper Temple open house last week. It was so beautiful. Dave and I loved being there, especially on a morning that was less busy, so we were able to walk through mostly by ourselves. We loved it and Katelyn loved pointing out all the pictures of Jesus and saying "Jeesus." What a cute girl. As you can see from the pictures, it was a really foggy day. We're standing in front of the temple (it's in the big white spot behind us to the left), but obviously you can't see it so we took a couple extra pictures of it. It's really a beautiful temple.