Decidedly Picky

So I spent the entire morning, while my 2 yr old was a perfect angel, writing this post. I pushed the save button 10+ times and was simply waiting to get a couple pictures put in, to publish it. That's when my browser froze and when I restarted it, all of my work was gone! Firefox, my beloved, you've turned into a Lying Liar of EVIL! (I know you are so impressed with my insult skills.) So now you will get a much shorter and angrier post about how February went and my goals for March.

February was busy and stressful. It started off with Mom, Windy, and I flying back from our girls weekend in the Bay Area. It was so much fun and I mean to blog about it at some point but obviously, today is not the day. Then we spent the next two weeks helping Rena plan a very complicated but super fun spy game themed Valentine's Day dinner. It was SO much work! But it turned out great! Everyone died when they put in the wrong password to disarm the bomb. He he he... :) Then there was Valentine's Day that you can read about here.

The next Thursday we threw a Chinese New Year party. It was a ton of fun and I was amazed by how many people came! In Wisconsin, we would be lucky to get 5 people to come but here we had about 20 people help us eat Chinese food and play games! (I guess it really does help having an overly friendly mother)


In February, we all got our dental work done. In fact, Indy went to the dentist for the very first time. He was a huge fan of the train set in the lobby but not a huge fan of waiting in the actual chair. We had to compromise a little:




My brother, Ben took the Bar Exam and there was lots of fasting and prayers for him. I also went to a wonderful Relief Society meeting where we talked all about angels. It was fantastic. You could practically feel the angels in the room. The quote I remember most was, "When something catastrophic happens in your life and you're looking at the broken pieces of your life, like shards of broken glass on the floor, and you know there is nothing you can do to fix it, know that there are angels all around you to bear you up." I loved the imagery and comfort of that. I can just see the facets of the broken glass reflecting the light up onto the sparkling angel wings.

The month ended with the guys all taking off for a weekend snow adventure. No one got injured or stuck and Indy was very well behaved for me. So I'd say it was a great success.

Now that you've heard all about my month, let me tell you how I did on my goals.

Completed:

• Write Wills! I got this one done really early and you can read about it here.

Right on Target:

• Write at least 20 blog posts (5/20)
• Host 12 game nights (2/12) Yay, Chinese New Year!

Needs Improvement:

• Hold at least 45 Family Home Evenings (6/45) We just can't seem to get more than 3 a month.
• Have at least 1 out of the house activity per month We went to the dentist as a family. As for a fun outing, I'd say that's pretty lame.

Failed: 

•  Go to the temple 12 times (1/12) Not this month but I still have until the end of the year.
• Catch up in Indy's baby book I can not believe how much work this one is! I tried REALLY hard to get it all done and I'm still only about 1/3 of the way through. I'm pretty sure I can get it done before the new baby comes though.

 
 March Goals:

• Finish Strasburg Final Report (I'm writing a document to help our BHAB camp director from last year)
• Make sure Indy is up to date on all his immunizations 

  Those don't sound too hard but we'll see how well I do as I get closer to my due date and becoming the size of a house. And on that lovely note, I'll end this post with some exciting news. You are all invited to my baby shower!



 

I know most of you have already forgotten all about Valentine's Day. I had too until I started getting pictures off my camera and found a picture of the beautiful bouquet Lewis bought me. So here's a fun little post about how my Valentine's Day was.

The three weeks leading up to Valentine's Day, Lewis and I spent helping my best friend, Rena, plan an awesome spy game themed dinner for her family. Every year, they plan a fun family dinner rather than fight the hordes of people at the restaurants. It's a great tradition and one I might just implement myself. Anyway, the dinner was a success. You might even say it was the bomb! Har har har... (Everyone died when they failed to disarm the bomb.)

The night before Valentine's Day, we went on a double date with my brother, Ben and his wife, Windy. We went to Burger Supreme for dinner (my favorite burger place EVER!) and then went to Trafalga in Lehi for laser tag. It was my first time trying laser tag and I was a little worried that I wouldn't be up to all the running around, given that I've never been keen on running even when I'm not pregnant. But there is actually no running allowed. So it was actually really awesome. In fact, it was so much fun, that I want to do that for every date night!

On Valentine's Day itself, I got to participate in a fun card exchange with my old Cali peeps. I got Katie who, like myself, is a huge Doctor Who fan. So I made her this card:

 And I received this amazing card from Rebecca:



I had so much fun making the card for the exchange that I decided to make a card for Lewis and my mom too.

Lewis likes the macabre

My mom's card has one of my favorite mother-daughter combos in cinema on the cover with the word "Agape" on it, which means unconditional love or familial love. And the back says "Thank you". I think that really captured the feelings I wanted to express to my mom. I am so grateful for her unconditional love and all that she is willing to do and has done for me.



Lewis is far better at big romantic gestures than I am and got me the most beautiful bouquet of flowers. He has a great story about it that I'll let him tell in the comments.

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All of the beautiful presents were nice but the best part about my Valentine's Day was spending time with my loved ones and celebrating all the different kinds of love that bless my life.