OUCH!!!

On April 1st - Yes April Fool's Day - Dustin took apart the kid's old portable basketball stand that had broke.  I was helping him move the base (it had most of the sand out of it but was still heavy!), I lost my grip and dropped my side on my left shin/foot.  Holy Crap did it hurt! 
I scraped skin off of my shin and my ankle/foot was bruised hard!  I could hardly walk on it.  After about 5 days almost my whole left foot had turned black and blue!  It freaked me out so I went to a podiatrist to have some x-rays taken but luckily I did not break anything.  I was told to keep taking Ibuprofen and he gave me some physical therapy exercises to do every night, at home.  These pictures are dark and don't show all of the bruising but it gives you an idea.

Now after a month my bruising is almost gone and the therapy has really helped.  I have been walking normal for almost a week!  We got the kid's a new portable basketball stand.  In case you were wondering, I stayed inside the house while Dustin and the kids put it together. :)

SURPRISE!

My siblings and I decided to throw my parents a "Surprise" Happy 60th Birthday and 40th Wedding Anniversary Party!  They are pretty much the best parents in the world so we thought it would be fun to get family and friends together for a little celebration at my house!  I wish I could post all the pictures because they are all so cute but here are a few to browse over. . . 

The Invite!



Guestbook table





Family picture



Just for Fun :)




Mom and her high school friends



Mom's family - cute!

Great friends!

Fun cousins!

Here is to many more years - We Love You!

GO GRIZZLIES!

Caden made the Copper Hills Baseball Team!  For only being a Freshman, that is awesome! We are so excited!  Caden and nine other of his Freshman friends made the team too.  They will probably mostly play on the sophmore team and we are looking forward to this whole new experience of high school baseball!
Who would have thought my cute little boy who started playing T-ball, at age five, would grow up to be such a great ball player (and handsome too)  :)

14 days of Valentines

I KNOW!   I have not been keeping up with my blog!  But this is too cute of an idea not to share and I need to get caught up.

I was reading my very wonderful friend and neighbor's blog and ran across her cute SIL's blog.  For quite a few years she has been doing "the 14 days of Valentines" for her husband.  You start on the Feb. 1st and it runs until Valentines Day.  You think of cute little things to do for your husband to let him know how special he is to you and how much you love him.  You do this for HIM and not to receive something in return.  It is all about creativity and not how much money you spend. 

I decided that I would do this for Dustin this year and I had a lot of fun looking through ideas she has done in the past and other ideas she received from friends.  I didn't have much time to put my ideas together and it is definately something you have to kind of think out.

He was really surprised and felt a little bit weird about it at first.  Dustin said it put too much pressure on him to "out do" me and that he had to think of something really great to give me for Valentines Day.  After much re-assurance, I told him that whatever he planned I would love and to just go with it!!  The kids helped me with a little bit of it and I think they thought mom was just plain weird!  But, eventually they too came around and I think it is good to show your kids that Mom and Dad are real people with real feelings.

I think I will have to start earlier next year but I really want to keep doing it and mix up the ideas year to year.  Here are just a few of the ideas that I did.  Also, you can do anything you want on each day it doesn't have to match the number of the day.

Day 1 -  Little saying with a cute heart Chinese take out box full of bulk Valentine candy.

Day 2 -  Invite for me to cook him a Valentine's day dinner.  Now this should normally be on Valentines Day BUT since he had to work, I had to figure something else out.  He had to work the whole weekend before Valentines Day - it was pretty funny having a candle-lit dinner about 4:30 in the afternoon before he left for work - LOL!

Day 4 - "Four" Necessities for our next date night complete with his favorite candy.

Day 5 -  The top "Five" reasons our dad is the best.  I had the kids help me with this one.  I love their reasons! 

Day 9 -  This was my favorite one!!  Dustin loves music - all kinds!  So I made a 2011 Valentine playlist on his Ipod and load Nine love songs in the playlist that I thought reminded me of our relationship.  So now he can listen to the songs and think of us. :)

So, there are just some of examples I used!  Can't wait for next year!!