A busy week.....

We started out with the Super Bowel, we had another family with just 1 kid left at home over.The guys were watching in the living room, and the girls were behind them talking and having fun.

Brooke loved the puppies and held one of them for a very long time. Even got her to sleep.

   Then the puppies had a little party of their own with our left over rib bones. We know a great caterer if you are in the market for smoked meats!

The next morning Mike was off to Canada and I found out the Tiny princess was sick. Elizabeth had RSV. Issy got it last year and was very, very sick. We were worried about her and sad she was sick.

Tuesday I went over and picked Issy up for a sleep over. To give mom a little break and to help mom take better care of Elizabeth. She got her tiny back pack packed and her cow bank and one of her princess dolls. She was ready to go.

I didn't take pictures on the first day, except when we were leaving. I don't know why. She slept with me that night. She was in the bed waiting for me. She was sitting on my side, I tried to get her to scoot over to the middle of the bed as I climbed in. I didn't even have my head on the pillow yet and she cuddle into my arm and said "I snuggle you." And she did, all night long I had this little warm body sleeping against me, and loved it.

We went out and shopped a little the next day. The sun was shining so bright when we came out of a store, it lit the car next to us up. It was a dark metallic charcoal grey. I couldn't take my eyes off of it, it was so shiny with tones of blue, silver, and  dark grey. And the metallic was sheer glitter, as I said the sun was shinning brightly.

As I but Issy in the car I told her, "Issy grandma thinks the color of that car is so pretty." She said "It has sprinkles on it too." So 2 year olds like glittery cars:-)  While we were out she had to go potty. At my house we have a little seat that sits on the big one. But we had to go to a public bathroom with no tiny seat. Flashback::: I am going to regress here. When I was a little girl and my grandma took me potty, she would hold me over the potty to I wouldn't touch the seat. I don't know how she did it. She must have been very strong. I remember her doing it often when we were out::: But thank goodness for paper toilet seat covers. I had to hold Issy's hands while she was on the really big potty. She told me, "Close yours eyes, OK" so I closed my eyes. I guess a little girl needs privacy too.

   

I just saw a saying the other day something like "Nothing makes you more happy or more tired than your grandchildren." I have to say amen. I love her but I do get tired. Luckily her uncles all love her. Uncle Steven chilled and watched Mickey Mouse Clubhouse with her. That seems to be her favorite show when she is here.

 Thursday was crazy. Mike and I had our 4 month follow up appointment we are doing great. They were super impressed with how much Mike has already lost, this quickly. Then we had to go get Mike's bag from the airport, that a whole other story. Then we took our car to the dealer to get work done on it. We were going to be there for about 3 hours but ended up being there for 5 hours. We were so close to Stacy's so we swung by to say Hi, to them. Aunt Brenda had fallen down the stairs and broke some toes. Then we made her climb the stairs to come and see us! I didn't know she had been hurt! But we enjoyed seeing them.

Then we rushed home and I had to make cookies for a fun cookie exchange. Our ward has a lot of fun things for the ladies to do. There is a game night, a book group, and a recipe group. Last night was recipe group. We had a lady teach us how to make chocolate moose. I even took a bite and it was soooo yummy!

I didn't plan on being in the dealership for 5 hours so I was going to make a fun chcoclate marshmallow cookies. But I had no time so I ended up making peanutbutter no-bake cookies. Those are always good. The funny thing was somebody brought chocolate no-bake cookies, they bought at Wal Mart, who knew you could buy them! I brought home the cookies and we tasted lot's of yummy cookies. There were cinnamon chip cookie, a marshmallow-peanut-rice crispy cookie, a cake ball coated in chocolate, coconut bars, thin mint cookies, chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cup, and 2 flavors of no-bake cookies. We cut them up into tiny pieces and Mike and I even had little tastes. I worked out a bit longer today to try to make up for all my tiny bites last night! But it was a fun evening, and made me want to make something fun for my family for Valentines Day!

Then we got up this morning and headed to the Chiropractor. Mike had made us appointments. I have been with this guy since I hurt my neck 21/2 years ago. When he saw me today he said, "You are really looking different!" I said "well I hope that is good." He laughed and said "Of course it's good!" He is getting into 

acupuncture and did some on Mike last week. So Mike had him do it to us today. It was kind of crazy. He did a treatment for stress. We had to lay on a table with needles in our feet, shins, and hands and not move while listening to soft music for 20 or more minutes. When I tried to walk out of the room I was staggering and bouncing off the walls. I think it did relax me!