Gabby's Birthday and Valentines Day!

It's been kind of a crazy busy week. I had Gabby's birthday on Thursday to prepare for and I was in charge of Corbin's class Valentines party. On Wednesday I tried to get everything completed for Gabby's birthday and Corbin's party. I also had to make dinner for someone in the ward that night. I ended up getting together with Anna and doing some birthday shopping with her. We went to several stores and bless her heart for being patient with my inability to make any sort of decision. I was just debating so many stupid decisions about things for Gabby's birthday and Corbin's party. I was mostly having a hard time with Gabby's birthday because I just couldn't get it together. I was going to have a rainbow party and then as time went on I just didn't have the time and didn't want to spend the money to make it happen. I decided to hang up her decorations from last year and make a pink and purple cake to match and call it a day! It was seriously stressing me out. I think she was a little sad to not have a rainbow party but hopefully she will forgive me. After our shopping we went to Chilies and had their chips and queso and their chocolate molten lava cake. My favorite. I went home and decorated the house for Gabby's birthday and finally went to bed.

On Thursday morning we woke up and had special birthday breakfast. I then cleaned my house and made a birthday cake. At 12:00 I went to go and decorate Corbin's classroom to find out that they were supposed to be having some fire inspection that day and they wouldn't let me hang up my decorations. What! I spent way too much time on those to not hang them up. I went back at 3:00 hoping they had had their inspection by then and they hadn't. Bless the principals heart because he let me hang up the decorations anyway. Bless him! I took Gabby to Walmart to pick up some jewelry for her birthday and we ended up buying her a new bike as well. I hadn't bought her a birthday present yet and I could not decide what to get her. I decided to have her go to the bike section and see if she would even be willing to ride the bike. Sure enough she did and she totally wanted one! I let her pick it out and ride it to the checkout stand. It was pretty cute! After I got back from decorating Corbin's classroom Nana and Papa had made it to the house. They came up for Gabby's birthday. Gabby rode her bike up and down our street for about an hour. She has been begging to ride again ever since. We got Little Caesars for dinner and went to play games at Chuck E Cheeses. After that we had cake and she opened presents. After the kids went to bed I got things ready for Corbin's Valentines party.

 I hope Corbin's class liked their Valentines party. After trying to run a game of conversation heart BINGO with a class full of kindergartners I have a whole new respect for Corbin's teacher. Holy cow! After we played that for a bit they ate party foods for awhile. After that we played a few rounds of a minute to win it game where the kids had to stack their conversation hearts as high as they could. I think they had the most fun with that game. After the party we came home and went with Nana and Papa to Red Robin. After lunch Papa took Piper and Ryan home and the rest of us went to the new Lego movie at The Village. It was our first time going to that movie theater and it was really fun. It's a really fancy movie theater. After the movie we went home and Nana and Papa took the three big kids swimming. Scott and I hung out with Ryan until they came back and then we went on a date. We tried to go to the Olive Garden but the wait was 2 hours. We ended up going to Walmart and buying an umbrella because it was raining and then we went and walked around The Village again. I really like it there. We checked out The Kona Grill that is a very fancy restaurant with really reasonable prices. They were of course booked all night . We ended up eating at an Italian cafe right in front of the water fountains. That was great. There was no line, the food was good, and we got to see a water show. After dinner I talked Scott into taking me to Chilies to get more chocolate molten lava cake. Ha! Love that cake!

On Saturday morning we headed over to Jeff and Janet's hotel and took the kids swimming. I refused to get in the water when I realized they had replaced their hot tub with an exercise room. What! After swimming we went to Kneaders and got a treat and said goodbye to Nana and Papa. It was fun to have them come up for a few days.

Funny Kids:
Corbin:
I was asking Corbin where something was that I can't find and he said he didn't know where it was. He then said, "If moms don't know, kids don't know." Ha!

Corbin's teacher was telling me that in December Corbin wasn't finishing his work very well but she let it slide a bit because it was close to Christmas break. In January she had a talk with Corbin and told him that if he didn't start doing his work that she would have to talk to me about it. She said that he immediately got to work! I told her to let me know if he's not doing his work because that is NOT OKAY with me. On the way home from school I had a talk with him about it to which he replied, "I think I don't know, but I think I probably got distracted." Ha! Ya think!

Gabby:
Her latest thing is saying for real. It is so funny. "Is it raining for real?" "They do have pink wands! FOR REAL!"
On her birthday, "I can count to four cause I have teeth."
"Mom, I don't know where in the devil I put it."

Piper:
"Mommy, get on my swimming soup?"
"Mommy, I take a bap." (bath)
She also says, "this is be-LICIOUS!"
"I lub it!"

Ryan:
He's still cute and chubby and likes to sing a lot. It's cute!

All the kids got on their swimming suits and asked me to blow up their water tubes. Corbin was in the shower with his. Good thing they got to go swimming a couple times this weekend with Nana and Papa.

Birthday breakfast with birthday girl.

Riding her bike to the check out stand.

She is so girly!

Corbin's classroom. I made that heart out of cardboard and grocery bags. It was kind of ghetto but the kids loved it! Ha.

As soon as she was up she put on her tiara and grabbed her princess balloon. This girly girl of mine. Love it!