Ladies night out!

I got the great pleasure to go with my friends, Holly and Sarah, and see a show. It was super fun to get dressed up and go out just for the heck of it. I had never heard the band (don't remember the name) but it was a group of absurdly stylish, cute, and very talented girls. The night was definitely a success!

The beautiful Sarah who was playing scrabble on her phone with Holly(who was across the table)

The also very beautiful Holly.

Take note of the 50 year old's skirt behind us. Inappropriate much?

Supper Club.

One of my sweet friends, Susan, had the fabulous idea to do a supper club. It is a great idea because she doesn't live as close as she used to so this way we get to see each other, eat great food, and have a night away from the kiddo. It is at a different persons house each time so you get to relax the majority of the time. My house first and it was lots of fun!

Happy Valentines Day!

I love Valentines Day. Shocking, huh? No, but really I do. Surprisingly that love comes not from Dave (all though I am sure he has helped keep it), but was passed down from my mom. Growing up my mom always made a big deal about Valentines day. She would get us gifts or cards and then later on we started a tradition of having "Waffle House". No, we did not go to the actual waffle house because that would have been crazy with 10 kids. She and my dad would cook all sorts of breakfast food including waffles (I am sure my dad was wearing a waffle house hat), the first year they made menu's and we ordered and they made us WHATEVER we wanted. I know that might not sound super exciting, but when you are a 10 year old home school kid who comes from a family of 10 so you only eat out maybe once a year (and you probably didn't get to choose off the menu), it is AMAZING. So Valentines to me was always a holiday were we all hung out as a family and loved on each other. I hope to carry on the tradition and pass it on to Judah and all other unborn kids I may have. All that to say that I know some of you may not have the same love for it that I have. A lot of people say it is a commercialized holiday or depressing or whatever. But I decided to come up with a list of reasons you should love it just like me, whether your single, married, dating, married or dating someone who is clueless it doesn't matter.

1. You can buy massive amounts of sweets, specifically chocolate, for very cheap the day after.

2. It is the one day of year that you can wear way too much pink and red AND incorporate hearts into your wardrobe without looking crazy.

3. it is the one day besides my b-day that I actually check the mail just in case i got something other than bills.

4. You can buy chocolate in the shape of ANYTHING.

5. You can eat mass amounts of chocolate and nobody says anything.

6. If you are not a verbally affectionate person it is a great time to tell the people around you that you love them without them thinking you are about to die.

7. You can dress your child in red, pink, hearts, suspenders and other ridiculous things without people thinking you are crazy.

Hopefully I have helped you become a believer. I just realized that I do most of those things all year round, but at least there is one day a year I don't feel crazy for it:)

Here is some pictures from our V-day morning.

A tradition I am trying to star for our family is to make pancakes on holiday's. You know pumpkin for Thanksgiving, peppermint for Christmas, pink heart shape for v-day. The plan was to wake up at 6:30 and have them ready for Dave before he left. The plan didn't happen.

So Judah and I ate them around 10. Sorry Dave! Judah did not know what to think. I guess he has never seen neon pink heart shape pancakes before.

He eventually warmed up.

Chocolate shaped tools. How cute!

I found chocolate hidden around the house.



Judah in his Valentine shirt
(on sale at target)

Happy Valentines everyone. I love you all very mucho!!!

PS go to allthecloudsrollaway to watch a very sweet valentines video!

Play date.

We had our friends Brandon and Katie and their adorable daughter over for a little play date recently. Now that we have kids our double dates have turned into play dates. We ate food, played with the train, and just hung out. Besides the fact that we just enjoy each others company we also wanted to get Carson used to being over here. In April and May I will have the pleasure of watching the little bean while her mom is at work. She seemed cautious, but they were both in not so good moods. She warmed up eventually until Judah starting hogging toys. Oh well they will get used to it eventually, right?

Favorite thing to do at our house. Play with the spices.

Judah trying to impress her by standing up.

I couldn't get her to smile, but how dang cute is she???

Our little book worms. They are going to be geniuses.

Well at least she will.

The boys entertaining themselves.

We need to work on the whole "sharing" thing.

What the Gunters have been up to...

Dave...

Working hard at our neighbors. SO nice to have him home during lunch.

Will add "after" pictures when he is done.

Me...

Making lots of onesies.

and Judah...

Being curious.

amusing self.

getting in trouble.

and freaking whenever mom leaves the room.
All and all we are very blessed.

Procrastination much?

Man is it already February? obviously I have been procrastinating in a major way. Because of that my first blog will be a combination of New Years and Snow day. I am sure everyone has seen their fill of both so I will try to make it short and sweet. BUT as you know I don't really do short and sweet so it probably won't be. I will let the pictures speak for themselves. If you want more info go to Jenna's blog because we were together for both and she has already blogged about both.

See how focused she is?

Dave is on the curb. I just wanted to see what it was like to have someone that tall.

I will spare you but there is a bout a million of these.

We laughed that Liz and Dave look like the couple in this one.

Love them. Matthew played an awesome show, right through New Year. and I mean literally didn't even stop to count down.
I will also spare you from the millions of these we took.

Only picture of Karis I have. That is why you don't try to get out of the picture.

Right as Matthew is playing through.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! sorry its so late:)

and then it snowed forever.


All warm and cozy.


No longer warm or cozy.

Not happy, but very cute.

Very nice to be so close to the fam during times like this.