February - Valentines & Birthdays

Since Valentine's was on a Sunday this year, Pat and I went out on Friday to 

dinner and a movie. We ate at the Black Bear Diner in Orem, which recently opened 

up. We ate there when we were in St. George last May and liked it a lot. And the 

food didn't disappoint. Their portions are huge so you can definitely have left overs.

Next we headed over to the Orem Cinemark and saw Deadpool!!  This 

movie is super crude, super bloody but super funny. Which is true 

to the character in the comic books. It was a fun night out for us.

The next day I was able to have a pre-birthday lunch at Zupas with Karri, Lisa 

and Mom. Afterwards we shopped at Target for some new shirts for me. I have 

been wanting some nicer shirts for church since all I wear are cotton t-shirt 

type shirts. Also it helps that I've lost 30 pounds and NEED new shirts too.

Sunday the 14th, we celebrated mine and Pat's birthday's at Moms. 

Karri made us a BB-8 cake!!! It was so perfect!!

JD & Chris gave me this kids birthday card that had stickers to dress up Barbie. I was super 

excited about it because it reminded me of my Barbie sticker book from when I was a kid!!

Lisa has been doing watercolor paintings lately and they are amazing. She painted 

one of me and dad from my 18th birthday. Instantly it made me cry hard, 

because it meant so much to me. Truly one of the best gifts I could have received. 

Here's a side by side of the original picture and her watercolor of it.

Mom got Pat this 6 in 1 Star Wars games set. Anything Star Wars makes this man happy.

Karri got him this awesome shirt and he loves it!!!

Thanks family for making it a great birthday celebration.

One weekend morning Jaina decided to camp out on the landing with her legs 

through the slats and play her DS. It's so funny to me the things that kids do.

Pat and I are slowly getting so freedom and using Xander and Mara as baby sitters. 

This night we actually put the little girls to bed and had the big kids stay up 

while we went to a movie. It was really nice and a great way to help them 

gain some responsibility. Zoolander 2 was funny, but not as good as the 

first one. But we still had a great time out on our 'date'.