Somebody Had a Birthday

It was Gabby's birthday this week. Her birthday was actually on Wednesday but we celebrated it on Tuesday. We had a special birthday breakfast. We met cousins at Burger King for lunch (just like we do every week) we went to preschool story time at the library. We had a special birthday dinner followed by a trip to PoJos. After that we had cake and opened presents. I thought I was going to have to make her a purple frog for her birthday cake but lucky for me she saw her birthday cake from last year (thanks to Aunt Colie's family calendar) and she wanted that cake again. Works for me! Costco cake: that's easy, and delicious. I asked her several times, "Gabby do you want a purple frog cake or a heart cake?" She replied heart cake every time.

On her actual birthday I babysat a boy from our ward for 6 hours and Scott was gone the entire day. Not much celebrating to be had that day.

On Valentines Day I made heart pancakes for breakfast. When I showed Corbin the pancakes he looked at them and said "oh, that's a surprise!" It was super funny. We opened Nana's huge box of Valentine and birthday presents. Included in the box was a lady bug tent for Gabby's birthday. Scott set that up and the kids had a great time with that. We went to the indoor gym and didn't do much the rest of the day. We had planned on going on a date but I had woken up with a bad sore throat again. I thought I was getting strep again. By 5:00 I was feeling pretty tired and crummy and we decided to cancel on the babysitter last minute. We do not go on dates or eat out often enough to do it when I'm not feeling well and can't enjoy the food or date anyway. Scott was kind enough to sit through a 2 hour episode of Downton Abbey that night with me. Now that is love. 

On Friday I deep cleaned my kitchen all day. I was able to clean the built on grime on top of my cupboards that I have never been able to clean. I finally tried steel wool. Brilliant! That took forever and was very tiring. I also cleaned under the oven and fridge and wiped down all the cupboards. It makes me tired to think about it.

On Saturday I cleaned my house some more for a long time. I am kind of on a kick it you can't tell. I just want to live in a really, really clean and nice house. I went with my friend Jen and ran some errands with her later in the day. That night Kelsey and Justin came and stayed over at our house. Chase, Rachel, Kelsey, and Justin came over to Boise for the weekend. We had a fun time visiting and playing Tripoly with Kelsey and Justin. 

I had enough money in my personal fund budget to upgrade my bathroom a little bit. I bought a new shower curtain and rug. I also prettied up a hand towel and sewed a new kleenex cover. The shower curtain was the one that came with the house. I never liked it but I never did anything about it. I definitely am likely the new shower curtain. To save some cash I just took the shower rings from the old curtain that were purple, blue and pink flowers and I spray painted them silver from leftover wedding paint. Nice!

I have a fabric banner but it does not match at all. I was bugged and so at 11:00 at night I hurried and made the purple banner. You can't read the happy birthday but it's purple so it's Gabby approved. As she always says: "purple's my favorite, and pink." Wow she is such a girly girl.

Birthday breakfast.

PoJos.

Red velvet cake. I don't even think Gabby likes this cake, she didn't even eat a whole bite of the whole cake. The rest of us loved it. She was just happy to have a heart cake.

Funny facial expression.

My Valentines

Before:

After:

That grime does not dust or wipe or scrub off. I can't believe I finally got it clean. It's so white and pretty up there. I want to eat off them.

I saved a piece of red velvet cake for Rachel because it's her favorite but she never came over and ate it. We sent her a text picture of us eating her piece. Thanks Rachel, it was good.