Big eyes...

His big eyes get sad when he's sick. Thankfully, our family is normally so healthy!

Snow!

It snowed! Is there enough for a snowman? There is if these guys have anything to say about it.

I love these faces.

They did it!

Birthday dinner...

For my birthday dinner, Merril took me to a fancy french restaurant called Guy Savoy in Vegas. I've always wanted to try a fancy place, like the ones shown on food shows. I bought a new dress for it! I actually bought 2 dresses at Ross for $15 a piece and used one so I could make the sleeves. It turned out great! 

This restaurant was super fancy and super expensive. It was course after little course of fancy food. 

Our favorite part was this guy and his bread cart. There had to be 15 different types of artisan french breads. He kept saying, "I can come back as many times as you want and you can try as much as you like!" He was awesome!  

The wait staff knew right away that we weren't their usual crowd. We ordered a dessert to share and they brought by a dessert cart and said, "Would you like to try some?" Since desserts were $30 a piece, we declined. They leaned in, "No, it's on us. Please, try some desserts." Big grins. We spent around $500 for one meal. That is crazy, right?!

We had a good time at the restaurant but we decided that we probably won't do that ever again. 😅 The food was great and we're glad we did it but we're good for the rest of our lives.

The next day we had all you can eat sushi. We both felt we were very full and only $50 instead of $500 for the both of us. It was more our speed. :)

We had pie for my birthday at Grandma Campbell's house. This is the side you never see.

Valerie's birthday is the day before mine and there was an 80s party. It felt like a party for me sort of. We had a great time messing around with the photo booth props.

Too bad some of these 80s styles are coming back. Yikes.

Valentine's Day 2019...

We had Valentine's dinner with the kids. We had a lovely candle light dinner.

But the highlight was a magnificent fondue. There were strawberries, bananas, pretzels, and marshmallows galore!

We had lots of fun dipping yummy things in the chocolate.

Mikayla's crazy, chocolaty face...

Randos...

We got bored on a Sunday afternoon and this string of pictures is the result. I have no words.

Mikayla's 7th birthday...

Donut towers are the best! Why haven't I been using them all along!? I'm just so over cake. Crazy cake for a crazy girl.

We had a unicorn-themed party, complete with a pinata!

There were presents, of course!

She's been begging for a hatchimal for a while.

We finally gave in and it was more fun than I thought it would be!

Awwww! My girl went to Preference!

Maxine is finally old enough to go to Preference.  She asked Colton and had a great time.  I was asked to take pictures and wished we were at a prettier venue. And it was FREEZING! They had lunch and played nerf wars for the day date. Dinner was at a friends house. After the dance, they went to Culver's frozen custard. These are the beginnings of the best times!

Mighty Mikayla...

Those arms are mini but mighty! All the younger kids have been climbing the door jams.  Mikayla is the best at it. She's a perfect combination of strong and slight.