Month of February

Here is an update of our family ~ I have not had much time to post lately ... because I've been going crazy organizing everything in our house.

I started with the boys' room, which was getting overloaded with toys, rocks, legos, school stuff, and nothing was in order, so I took a weekend to help them go through everything and donated or threw away atleast 1/2 of their "stuff".

Next, I organized my kitchen area where it seems all the paper from school gets scattered everywhere. I organized a central location (in a closet by the kitchen) where all their school supplies will be kept along with bin for each child where they would find their class info. It is amazing what a difference having a system for them makes!

Today, I am working on our office because Aaron just got called in to the E.R. and he thinks he will not be home until after midnight :( The boys are helping me a little but they are mostly reading books for their book reports and AR (Accelerated Reader) points that they need to fulfill for the month of February.

Here's a little side note: Noah (my oldest and 4th grader) made the TOP honors(honor roll 90% in all subjects) again this semester! I am so proud of him. I am proud of him even if he doesn't make honor roll, but he is such a hard worker and he is learning that hard work pays off.

I forgot to post last week about 2 very important days we celebrated last week! First, was Valentine's Day. Aaron & I celebrated our 16th Valentine's day together (counting the years we were dating too). He is such a sweetie and brought me home roses and a very beautiful necklace that he said "reminds me of my girls" The necklace is a chain with a white gold flip-flop type sandal pendant. Very beautiful and so thoughtful.

On Saturday, the 16th, we celebrated Aaron's 38th birthday! His birthday always seems to get mixed up with Valentine's Day and in many ways, I feel like he gets cheated out of his special day, so this year, I decided to make it a 3 day celebration by beginning on Valentine's Day with a cake that the boys and I made (mostly for the kids), the boys each made a handmade card, and we went out to a great Mexican Restaurant for dinner ~ on friday, we celebrated his birthday with one Ann & Mike and their 2 kids, Michael & Jane at a restaurant called Soba Noodles, on Saturday, we celebrated early with the boys giving Aaron feet massages and walking on his back, and invited Tori & Matt over for some lunch, games and delicious cake that Matt made. We also decided to go to church that night, which was EXCELLENT and then after church, Darci & Chris and Baby Trenton came over for more dessert. We are usually not such a social family, but since Aaron LOVES people and hanging out, I really wanted him to have what I think He considers a GREAT birthday.

Anyways, Happy Birthday to my Sweetie, who is now my age :)