Feelin' the Love...

These pictures are a whole bunch of randomness. But when I look at these pictures, I am reminded of how much love there is to go around, and how much fun the journey of life is when we have good friends and great family to share it with.

I loved this sweet moment with

my two boys...

And this one...

And even this one. Until...

they dumped all the shampoo and all the conditioner to make a great slippery bathtub that they could spin around in.

After this picture was taken, they put more water in the tub (again), and I left the room to put my camera away. When I went back in, they had put a couple inches of the water and bubbles on the bathroom floor and were sliding all over the floor. *should I laugh or cry?*

Daddy built a snowman with the boys. Not sure what they named him. But if I were to guess, his name was "Frosty". :)

I have this group of friends that we re-live our childhoods together. We started out a couple of years ago with a common interest in hiking. But when it's too cold to hike - we find other ways to "play".

The next pictures are of us "ice blocking" on Old Main Hill on Utah State Campus. The object of the activity??? Sit on a freezing block of ice (aka...freeze our keesters) and slide down the hill and try not to get hurt or killed on the way.

Same group of friends has started a tradition where we go to our friends cabin at Bear Lake sometime in the winter. When we got there, we couldn't get the heat to work, and realized the propane tank was empty. So we used whatever we could to keep warm until our "Mr. Heater" arrived (it's our emergency heater that we keep in our trailer - it worked great).

It was Mel's birthday, so we did a "Mob Dance" for her.

I also had the opportunity to go to "Time Out For Women" with a group of friends. Some of these friends I had never met before this day, others I have loved for a long time. I can't say enough about how wonderful this experience was. I left there remembering that I am a Daughter of God. I definently want to make this one a tradition.

Emilie and I had a girl date with a little shopping and the theatre. We went to the local production of "The Slipper and the Rose" (it's the Cinderella story). It's so fun to get to have our "girl time".

Brayden and Ira had a different way of "showing their love". They decided to see if they could complete the pizza challenge.

I think I can...I think I can...I think I can.

My cheerleading didn't work. This is as far as they got. But their memories of their "boy time" will stay with them forever.

I don't usually do anything very special for Valentines gifts. I do follow my moms tradition that she always did for my dad - and that is to make him his own cheesecake. In addition to the cheesecake, this year I decided to "go all out".

When you aren't used to getting a gift, then even a little something is going all out! :)

Basket full of various nuts for Ira, and candy for the kiddos.

At school, they celebrate each childs birthday, and since Jarins birthday is in the middle of the summer - they celebrated his "half birthday". Cute idea, but caused stress when he got home and realized that we weren't ALL celebrating his half birthday...complete with gifts and cake.

So Emilie and I decided "why not". So we found some of their toys in their room and wrapped them up. Then we made a cake and had a "half birthday" for Jarin and Kamden (both birthdays are in July).

So instead of one day in February being the day of "love" - I prefer to show our love all year long...in the little things we do.