Just Because

"Just because I love you!"

What better reason does he need?

Baptism Towel

My sweet little niece was getting baptized and

I had searched and searched for something

cute, unique, and practical to send her. Living in

town with no church bookstore makes it hard.

I was wasting time one morning when I should have

been doing something like....cleaning!!

When I came across my friend Ramanda's blog and

she had made this super cute towel for her nephews baptism.

I checked out her tutorial and couldn't get my copy big enough

so I called for HELP!!

So glad I did!! She invited me over, gave me her copy, the iron

on backing I would need and let me pick from her material!!

She promised it would be easy!!

It was!!! I had it finished by the time school was out

and in the mail by 4!!

I wish I knew about this for the other sweet little

family members that have already been baptized.

Cute poem that goes with it.

Winter BBQ

After playing in the snow I was craving a BBQ!!!

Ward just laughed at me.

I couldn't have picked a more

opposite day from Summer to BBQ.

We had the best BBQ!

Hamburgers

lettuce

tomatoes

pickles

onions

summer salads

and

lemonade

I love this man!!

He was making a point,

that it was a blizzard outside and I wanted a BBQ!!

What you don't see is he was wearing

SHORTS!!

Sledding

A dream come true!!

Jolene LOVES to go sledding.

Raychel had spent the night at a friends and

on Saturday morning Jolene was missing her.

Ward told her to get her snow clothes on and to

come with him!!

Just the two of them were

GOING SLEDDING!!

(I came as the photographer)

They had a GREAT time!!

The climb up......

sledding down.......

So much snow in her face!!

Snow wrestling with dad

Throwing a snowball at mom!!

It was snowing SO hard!!!

Our little snow bunny

penguin style

I love this little girl!!

Snow Fort

After a fun afternoon of sledding we

came home and were able to shovel the

driveway before the next snowfall.

Jolene has wished for a snow fort all winter,

her wish came true.

She got "started" and daddy finished it.

Life is good!!

Computer Games

Jolene goes through phases with the computer.

She is now loving being on the computer.

If you're not on first don't plan

on being on at all!!

She enjoys some great math games

which have pushed her

ahead on the "mad minute" math test in

her class, she loves

to play some of the games they play

in her computer class at school and

all the games we had for Raychel at this

age are being mastered as well.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day usually means

flowers,

jewelry,

and candy

to most women,

but to me this year it was paint!!

I LOVE to paint my house. I have painted

every room in our house and then wait a few months

and start again!

This time it was the laundry room. It needed some

cheering up!!

I LOVE yellow and decided the room needed

to be yellow and then freshened up the white trim.

I now don't mind doing the laundry so much.

It's the happy, sunny, cheery room!

And of course my Valentine gave me

flowers!!

Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentine's Day!!

All the excited of Valentines day with friends!!

Checking out all the Valentines from class friends

playing musical chairs
Making Valentines cookies with friends

little 'rock stars'

"just adorable!"