Oops...

 I have fallen behind yet again in my weekly Sunday blogging.  It isn't Sunday, but I am going to play catch up.  First up, Valentines day:

 ( I don't know why some of these are sideways.  They don't look that way on the computer but won't turn for me.)  The girls both had parties at their schools and got lots of valentines and candy.  We went to Taco Time for dinner.  This wouldn't normally be that exciting, but our home town didn't have one for a long time and they recently built one ONE BLOCK AWAY from our house!  It was open Sunday, closed Monday for technical problems, so we went as soon as it was possible for us on Tuesday.  Yum.  We love Taco Time!  I painted the girls' toes that evening just for fun.

Lee and I exchanged thoughtful gifts this year.  They were a lot of fun.  I made Lee a deck of cards with reasons why I love him.  I am in a Biggest Loser competition at work, so he thought it would be fun to get me a box of chocolates.  I groaned at first, but upon opening it, each chocolate was replaced with a rock and a cute note/memory wrapped around it.

Next up is President's Day Weekend.  We took time off work and made a mini-vacation out of it.  We met up with Liz's family in Billings.  This is the only picture of kids that I got.  The two girls taking a bath together.  Probably the only time anyone sat still long enough to get a picture.

The main purpose of our trip was to go to the temple.  We learned that you shouldn't go on a stake temple day as the sessions will be full.  We were able to get in to do some sealings though so it was still a neat experience:

Side Insert...This is Kimmy's cheese face.  

She loves to dish out this smile and I absolutely love it!  What a ham!!!

The big girls had a Zumba party for their last class on Friday. 

Where was Kadie for all this?  Throwing a tantrum and then sitting in the corner pouting.  She has been on an antibiotic for an ear infection and it has made her a little moody ("little" being an extreme exaggeration).  I think the parents watching made her shy.  She did enjoy the cupcakes and prizes later at home.

 Kim enjoyed watching and would occasionally try to dance too.

Randomness

 Kim loves taking a bath.  The second she hears the water turn on she is headed towards the bathroom.  I had to take a few pictures of her like this because I have very similar ones of her sisters. (I would post them along side these but I would have to track them down first.)  Nothing cuter than a little naked butt ready for a bath:

 I was supposed to go on a date this past week with Kadie.  Needless to say, by the time I was ready to go, she was not.  I got stood up!

(She had been sick the past week and must have been over tired.  We went on our date a few hours later and got an ICEE and purple fingernail polish, and then later painted her fingernails!)

While it is a little late, I found this picture on my mother's camera.  Taylor and Kadie were ringing in the New Year in style!

Taking A Break

I am slacking on my blog.  I didn't post last week and I haven't really taken any pictures to post this week either.  We did have family pictures taken that need edited and I will post them soon. 

It was a crazy week for us.  Kadie got sick at daycare with a high fever.  I couldn't get her into the doctor that day so I took her to public health for a strep test.  She clenched her jaw shut and was totally uncooperative.  The test there was negative.  The next day I took her our normal doctor.  It turns out she had strep and a burst eardrum.  She behaved WAY better for this doctor.  Poor Kadie.  Two days later the school called while I was at work.  Taylor had similar symptoms and ended up with strep as well.  So we spent the week with a couple of sick girls. 

Thankfully, Kim has not gotten sick.  She had eventful week herself.  She really started taking off on her walking.  Her first steps were on January 13th, but this week she decided that walking is the way to go and walks everywhere.  I could sit and watch her all day.  She is really getting vocal as well.  She tells us no,no,no (sometimes while shaking a finger at us), uh oh, tickle tickle, mama, dada, grama, thank you, woof, boo, and Taylor.  She has also discovered she can sniff and walks around making a constant sniffing noise, and has discovered how to blow a kiss.