Valentine's Day

Valentine's Celebrations

Although we didn't plan a specific date for this Valentine's day, I didn't have energy to cook what I wanted for our dinner so we ended up going out to eat. We are looking for a new good sushi place near where we live so we went to a place near us, but I doubt we will go back to this particular one. Claire enjoyed coming to dinner with us and tried her first sushi, the shrimp tempura roll, that was very hard for her to eat take a bite out of. We went with simple gifts for each other, I got him a new oil vile shaped like a bullet that has the title of liberty on it. Chris wrote me a beautiful love note to wake up to when I taught my classes and let me pick out something special for myself.

Claire

She was so excited to get mail, she held it to her chest and smiled when I let her have as soon as I pulled it out of the mailbox. She carried it inside and when I opened it, she was happy to play with both envelope and card, then was even more excited when the card opened. We have a really good routine going these days and she doesn't like when it gets messed up since her naps are weird on those days. Maybe it's more me that doesn't like when her nap schedule gets ruined...I don't like her being grumpy after only sleeping a little. She is a perfect little angel most the time when putting her to bed but can wake up a little disoriented sometimes. 

Earthquakes!

We had two earthquakes this week! They were on Friday morning at 5am when I was in a classroom waiting for a student that never showed up. I felt the first one and after realizing it wasn't our garage opening, started looking up how to find out if there was an earthquake. Then the next one hit and I saw our TV sway back and forth a little and found a website that told me they had just happened.. It was exciting and woke Chris up from his sleep of the dead even though they were only 3.2 and 3.7 according to Google. The epicenter is about 4 miles from our house though and it was the talk of the day around here with anyone you ran into.

Baptism

We had a very awesome event this Saturday, which you can tell by the section title was a baptism. We went up to Tremonton and Chris was the person who baptized and confirmed his best friend since middle school, David. It was beautiful and his daughter cried when she gave the closing prayer which was the most precious thing I've seen. We are very happy for him and hope this is the start of good things to come, especially if plans come together and he moves closer.  This was one of those weird days for Claire's naps and she slept in her car seat reluctantly but was able to handle the day's events pretty well. 

Taxes

I am one of those over achievers that like to do taxes as soon as we get all the documents which happened to have been this past week. It took a couple hours two different days and now we just have to wait for the money to get to us, it is a relief and a reason to treat ourselves. We had talked about what we would do if we were going to be getting a good refund and decided that investing in a new a better bed was the best option. I didn't want to wait for the money so we put our new Purple bed on our credit card and it was shipped to us within 2 days! Good thing the main headquarters is so close because we've been enjoying our sleep the last couple nights.