Valentine's Day

 Every year I write a letter to everyone in the family about the things I love about them.  It's become a sweet tradition.  This year my youngest 2 boys decided to write letters as well.  It was really cute.

We decided to do something different than usual. We went out for dinner and painting with another couple.  It was a lot of fun!

 

Another Runner

I've been trying to systematically make a table runner for each holiday.  Last year I bought the fabric, but I never had the time to make it.  I'm feeling accomplished that I actually sewed it before it hit March.  We'll just pretend like it's not a year late.

Hanging Around

I have no idea why, but Luna loves heights.  She loves to perch up high.  You'll walk up the stairs to find her hanging over the ledge on the banister.  It gives me mommy anxiety particularly when she walks along the outside of the banister, but she's completely un-phased. 

International Dinner Night

 This weekend we had our annual International Dinner Night.  Joel requested that I make a Spanish Tortilla for it.  We had a wonderful night of eating lots of great dishes, and of course I mostly forgot to take pictures.  We were remarking that almost everyone brought their food in an instapot or crock-pot this year.  

We got fun drinks to try from the Asian Market.  

Valentine's Party

 Little Guy got his valentines ready and then we had a fun time at his party.  

My Favorite Fish in the Sea

 This week was BVN's production of Little Mermaid.  Little Man played King Triton, and Little Lady played a sea creature and castle maid.  It was so fun to watch them in the musical together.

Rehearsals:

Scrappy Churndash

January and February blocks for do.Good Stitches were large churn-dash blocks.  One block needed a light churn dash and the other a dark churn dash.  You could choose the scrappy color for the background. I chose red and green.   

 

MTC Memories

Twenty-five years ago yesterday I entered the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah.  This sweet, little baby had no idea what she was getting into, but it ended up being one the most fundamentally changing experiences of my life.  

I was in a native-Spanish speaking district.  My 2 companions (Hermana Garcia & Hermana Lopez) were from Los Angeles, and the elders were from all over Latin America.  On our first day the Elders were no where to be found in the classroom.  We found them outside playing, because it was the first time any of them had seen snow.  We were only together for 3 weeks before I flew to the Spain CCM, and my companions went to Guatemala, but I still love them to pieces.  The time spent at the MTC was really special.

One of my favorite memories from the MTC was when my brother brought us pizza and cheesecake.  We met him in the parking lot between the MTC and the temple and snuck the food back in.  We ate it in the laundry room.  The Elders had never had pizza or cheesecake before and loved it so much.  They were blessing my brother in their prayers for days after that. It was so fun watching them discover the US for the first time.  All of them went to missions in the United States.  Many of them wrote to me their whole missions, and it was so fun to see them able to write fluently in English by the end.