Happy Valentine's Day!

February Fun: We have been enjoying the continued warm weather and had a fun Valentine's day this past week or so. We have made our priorities for the homestead and have been hard at work but the sunshine makes it so much more enjoyable. Nate has pruned the apple trees and fixed the tiller!! and I dug my "hot holes" for the comfrey I ordered and am working on adding manure to last years garden. The kiddos are busy playing as always and enjoying the special treats that have been steadily trickling in.  Here are a couple highlights.

          Babies: I have chosen to document the fun times rather than the hard. The little ones have been having a hard time getting a long for the most part, not quite sure why, but there have been plenty of cutie pie moments too, so here they are.

 Sharing the stool

 Falling asleep at the dinner table - he had a big growth spurt this last little bit. He would sleep about 13 hours at night and eat like he's never eaten before. He fell asleep eating the other day he was so tired, but I really have noticed he's looking taller and can reach things he couldn't a bit ago. What a sweet boy.

 Warming booties by the heater - Avenlea loves to do whatever Blain does

 Chloe in ponies! A rare sight since she always wants her hair "in a ballerina bun" these days. About once a week I can convince her to let me do her hair how I want. She loves to pick out her own clothes and shoes, mostly picking skirts even though her little legs look so cold sometimes. Love my independent Chloe Rose.

          Celebrating Our Love: We went to the ward Valentine's Date Night where we got to know other couples in the ward and eat lots of yummy desserts. There was babysitting provided so that was nice and all 3 of them stayed in the nursery the whole time! Then on actual Valentine's day Sam was so nice to offer to babysit for us down in Orem so we could go out. We tried a soft serve gelato place that Nate's friend co owns and it was delicious. We enjoyed sitting around afterwards discussing our milking dilemmas and getting Sam's welding advice for our cooling system. Fun times :)

 Before the ward party

 

Chloe before her party at preschool and Blain on Valentine's Day

 Eating the Gelato - we got chocolate hazelnut and peach mango. YUM!

 Happy Hearts Day!

          Photo Shoot: I decided to try and take cute pictures again this year like I did last year, only my camera has gotten a lot slower, fuzzier, and harder to use. Good thing my babies are so cute!

 My ABC's

 Handsome Boy

 Princess Fussy Pants

 Love that smile!

          Flowers: We were playing outside for a while today and noticed that there are a ton of little flower sprouts! Chloe wanted to sit down and "watch them grow" and Blain wanted to water them with the watering can. We ended up doing a little of both. I can't wait for my daffodils!

 Chloe by the flower bed - you can see a couple of the sprouts. She worked so hard right a long with me the whole time we were planting those last fall. I hope we get lots of flowers for her sake!

 My little trouble maker with some amazing ponies.  Blain watering the flowers, of course making his little "boom pa choo" noises the whole time. Even watering the flowers is a job for this tough guy.

Plus a yummy salad with our last batch of bacon. It was delicious but I'm gonna miss eating like royalty, that bacon was the best I've ever had. It definitely went too fast!

          Baby Girl!  I don't think I ever wrote about getting my ultrasound. It was about 2 weeks ago and we found out we're having another girl! Here is me 23 weeks pregnant and an ultrasound picture of our new baby. They said everything looks good and they are not going to move my due date even though she measured a couple days behind where I am in weeks. They did say the placenta is a little close to the cervix which could cause a problem later, but usually as the baby and belly grow the placenta moved backwards. Lets just hope that happens this time too.

 23 weeks, photo taken by Chloe :)

 

 Hello there sweet little one!