Celebration week

We had a week of lots of celebrating at our house in Feb.  It’s always fun and always tiring, but I love that we have so much to celebrate! 

We start off with Valentines and admittedly with all the other stuff going on in the week it is usually pretty low key.  This year we did a little party for our playgroup a few days before.  Then on Valentines I gave the kids each a heart shaped box of chocolates and I made “heart” pizza for our dinner. 

The next thing we celebrate is our Anniversary.  I was happy that Jason could take the day off this year and so we spent it together.  We went to the temple and did some family names and we went to Communal for lunch since I keep hearing about it all over the place.  It was really good.  Great blogger that I am I have NO pictures of anything from this day…I was too busy enjoying spending time with my awesome husband to worry about pictures. 

After the anniversary comes the twins’ birthday.  They each had parties on separate nights and they both had a blast.  I think I like these older kid parties because they planned everything (it was mostly just “hanging out” type stuff) and it was pretty low key.  Jason saved all his money from Christmas and everything else to pay for half of an ipod touch for his birthday (I wanted to KNOW that he was serious about it and would take care of it)Emily in typical teen girl fashion asked for shoes and clothes and a new bedspread.  They requested cheesecake instead of cake which I was happy to oblige them with since I can only handle so much cake. 

Our final celebration is my birthday.  Some of my friends planned a surprise dinner for me and even got Jason in on it to get me there.  We went to Chilis and there are pictures, just not on my camera so hopefully I’ll get them soon!  I have the best friends!

On my actual birthday Jason and I went out to eat and we pretty much just had a relaxed day as a family.  I think the best part was that they planned the weekly menu for me and did all the grocery shopping too.  I was VERY happy to have a break from those chores.  Jason surprised me with a cake he got at costco while he was there.  The kids insisted I have a candle to blow out, and Liam was so nice to me and blew it out for me.  It was a great birthday. 

That wraps up our celebration week.  Hope I didn’t forget anything important!