Good Morning sunshine

I woke up this morning with this hanging on my treadmill. I heard MOM LOOK AT ME! Brooke my little gymnast. She also can stand on one foot and hold her other foot up to her head, and she says Mom look at me! I say wow! and she says can you do this, and I say NO, and she says why cause your fat? NICE! kids are just way to honest. Really should she be talking? little boodabelly!

Nothing much new here.. just the whole family trying to recover from a real icky couple weeks of just being sick... Me and Mike with pneumonia, Brooke with a nasty cold, and Rick too! Can't wait until we all start feeling good!

Last weekend besides just not feeling the greatest, was an absolute blast scrapbooking at the lodge with mom, lisa and Angie. Only way it could have been a little better is if I had my two other sisters with us. I have a year until the next, hopefully I can talk them into it!

Stacy has gotten me on this kick of MOTO "makeovertakeover" we pick one area of our house that needs a good clean up/reorganizing/toss/giveaway items - we'll take before and after pictures - so far I have gotten the girls room cleaned up, gone thru.. The big kitchen pantry closet, I have been waiting to do that one forever but have procrastinated, finally got it d0ne and now hopefully I can keep it that way for a while. Have to think of my next project which will be hard because I have so much that needs to have a moto done!

tonight was a good night: Erica is off sleeping at her friends, Rick took Nicholas and Brooke to Nicholas' hockey game (they won) during that time Michlyn and I cleaned up the house, lit candles, took a bath, and played some games of Uno. She was so excited for this... a date she calls it. As we were cleaning up I said to her "after this we will take a bath and play some games" she said all kinds of games? like what games? I said well let's play UNO! She was so excited that she said ooh good then can we play DOs (spanish #2) I said, I am not sure I know that game, she was so embarrassed and said OOH never mind.. poor little ding bat got so excited to hang out and play games with mom that she wasn't thinking straight. it was cute... maybe you just had to be there... After the family came home, we ate our long awaited valentine treat... took 6 hours to make and bake our delicious choc. mess. all kinds of choc stuff simmering in a crockpot for 6 hours! it was GOOD! kinda like a cakey,brownie,pudding choc. chunk slop - dry in some areas wet and gooey in others... spread over a pile of ice cream YUM! Thanks mom for the recipe!

For Valentines Rick and I got the kids Pillows! and big choc. kiss on top. I wanted to get the kids something useful besides just candy... and as I was cleaning the girls room, I noticed how all the kids pillows are about as flat as a piece of bread. That's because when ever we buy new pillows the kids get our old ones.. I thought it was a brilliant idea.. and evidently Nichoals thought so too.. when I brought them up to get there treat, he laid on the pillow and was holding the kiss and said this is the best valentine ever! here is a pict.:

Alright it's 10:11 and I am beat from day of cleaning so I am going to bed... good night all!