Valentines and a Birthday

I love Valentines Day! It is so much fun to be extra smoochy with my two favorite people! Ok, ok I also love the food involved. I had to use my heart shaped bundt not once, but twice. Each was delicious in its own way, but the last of the chocolate has to go today (or else I will eat it all!)

Poppy Seed

Double Chocolate

Let me go back... February 12th marked the 5 year anniversary of when Jayson proposed and I accepted. To celebrate, we had a tragedy..... my ring fell into the sink (unbeknownst to either of us) and I turned on the disposal... thinking it was just a teaspoon, I reached my hand in and pulled out a semi mangled wedding ring (its really not too bad, and I am crossing my fingers it is fixable). I was crushed! I couldn't believe I was the one to ruin my ring! The miracle part of the story is that we have insurance... Lesson to be learned, I will ALWAYS have insurance on my wedding ring. Totally worth the $90 a year. So, next step is to take it to a jeweler to see if repair is possible, if not we will get a check in the mail from our insurance. Sad day.

Back to Valentines. For breakfast Jayson and I made our favorite, waffles with strawberries and buttermilk syrup. We didn't want Savannah to be left out and decided we couldn't wait for her official 6 mo. birthday and went ahead and gave her rice cereal for the first time. Just as expected, she liked it. I have always known that she would be an "eater" like her mother.

My birthday was on President's Day and of course Jayson still had school. (He did surprise me by coming home early from school, which was amazing) So I celebrated with some girlfriends over lunch and then Jayson took me out later that night. We even got a babysitter. It was really fun to go to dinner just the two of us and then he took me shopping! Too bad the selection was poor, but what a great night nonetheless.

CPK

Just chilaxing with dad

Bath time.

This girl loves to splash in the tub and I thought this pic was funny

because her hair looks like the joker or something.

Mommy's Little Helper

Mommy's Little Helper

I was making brownies for Young Women's and looked down for 3 seconds and...

I think she knew she was in trouble because she wouldn't smile for me.

This one is for cousin Serelle.

Savannah can't crawl yet, but she can sure manage to get into some pretty tight places.

She rolls like crazy and can scoot almost anyway she wants- except forward

Walking over to our neighbors in the sub-freezing weather

January

January was yucky and cold and we are happy to say goodbye!

Most days it was too cold to go anywhere so we stayed home.

Here are a few things we did to keep ourselves sane...

Savannah discovered that she can suck her toes

She is a master at rolling from back to front

Toys, toys, toys.

Sitting in her big girl Bumbo

Dressing up in pretty clothes from Grammy Clark

We had a mock birthday party for Jayson (a few months late) with a delicious homemade fruit pizza

The one candle is for his 1 remaining year in his twenties!!

Savannah wore her first pair of jeans

She helped mom with some exercising

And Mom and baby had lots of cuddle time

Can you even resist those cheeks?!!