Reading together.

One of Dallon's favorite books is The Lightning Thief. He has read it two times himself over the past couple years. He has also read all of the other books in this series (5 total). He has been very excited about the movie coming out and I decided I wanted to get in on some of the fun! It's been a long time since I've read a book with Dallon. He has gotten into these big chapter books, and I've been busy reading to younger brothers instead. I told Dallon I was going to read the book The Lightning Thief so that we could go see the movie together. I really didn't think he'd be up for reading it a 3rd time... I just thought it would give us something in common, something fun to talk about. He jumped right in, and was very excited to read it together. Over the course of the last 2 weeks we read it and I have to say, I enjoyed every minute of it! Great book. So entertaining. Wonderful time spent with Dallon. I can't wait to go see the movie with him and the rest of my family this week.

Cousins came to stay!

We spent all of last week with family. Emily and her three boys made the drive all the way from Iowa to stay with us. That's right... she drove 17 hours straight thru with the boys all by herself. She is a rock! We had so much fun having them here. They boys loved hanging out with their cousins, and I loved enjoying some sister time with Em. We went to this really fun miniature golf, go-cart racing, bumper boat place and had a ball. Lots of pics to share from that fun day. We'll start off with that.

Here we are at the go-carts. Things started to get a little competitive with Em and I behind the wheel. Em is a mad woman on a go-cart. That was one of my favorite things we did all week.

These bumper boats were so fun for the boys. All of them were big enough to drive their own.

We played at two different parks, and picnicked. Everything we did was outside play - since they had come from really cold snowy weather we tried to just enjoy the outdoors.

Em and I went out to dinner one night - kid free! Courtesy of Aaron's babysitting skills. It was so fun to have a girls night and spend time talking without the interruption of little kiddies. We spend 2 1/2 hours chatting and eating at Jason's Deli .

We made suckers together. I taught Mikey and Spencer how to make them, let them pick the flavors, and then let them take them.

Spencer taught Dallon how to play a song from Harry Potter on the piano. Dallon thought it was so cool that Spencer could play it. Both of them take piano lessons. As I watched the two of them playing together on my mom's piano it warmed my heart. She would love to see her grandson's enjoying music. She loved music so much.

Jaron flew in at the end of their trip. We drove up to Stephenville to spend the weekend with him. He was in a Roping there and totally kicked butt. Turns out he is good at every single thing he does! It was so good to see him.

Mammy and Pappy gave Spencer and Dawson compound bow's for the birthdays! Every little boys dream right?
The next day, before and after church, was spent outside at their home shooting their bow's.
And I love this last picture of Trevor and Dallon. Trevor loves Dallon. He didn't really like the rest of us - not sure why? Ha Ha. He really loved Dallon though. He liked Dallon to hold him and he would give him sweet hugs.
We love you Sullivan Family!

Hunting for Valentines!

We were lucky enough to have three amazing nephews and my sister in law Emily here with us on Valentines Day. How cool is that? We sent all the boys on a valentine hunt and they loved it! They ran all over the neighborhood, in and out of the house, up and down the stairs. Then finally they found their little goodie boxes on the balcony and they were so excited. I was so happy to have them here and it inspired me to decorate my house with some pink and red for V-day. Late, the night before, Aaron and I stayed up blowing up balloons and hanging up a banner and crate paper. Aaron laughed and said it looked like a high school dance... I thought it was pretty cool. Now, here are some pictures of the hunt.

Dawson made me these sweet valentines at school. He was so excited to give them to me. "I love you to pieces" is a magnet (and already on the fridge). And the coupon book has some really awesome coupons in it... folding clothes, making my bed, going to sleep, no complaining, helping set the table, doing my chores, and my personal favorite is the coupon for no fighting. Unfortunately redeeming the coupons has been very hard and they are rarely accepted. Too bad - it sure was a sweet idea. I loved everything he gave me.