Our Life and Times: February 2010

This year Valentines Day was on a Sunday. I tried to make it special and made plans to make a nice dinner for Nathan and I and Travis and Katie. Blair and Shanna were having a get-a-way with friends for the weekend.

Earlier in the week I made handmade Heart shaped soaps for my Visiting Teaching sisters and made some for Shanna and Katie too. They were all shades of pink and were scented like roses. They are really fun to make and turned out so cute! I was pretty proud of myself!

For the first time I made homemade truffles for dessert and they came out really tasety! A Martha Stewart recipe of course! I could use some fine tuning in the dipping in chocolate afterwards but they were delicious if I do say so myself! We had a nice time with Travis and Katie and then Nathan and I were off to a YM/YW fireside. Here I continued my decorating desires and set up a fun Candy Display for the Fireside!

The first week of February has been an annual Cabin Vacation with all of our children and grandchildren. This year was the third year in a row that we have been able to have this fabulous fun with each and everyone of us spending quality time together. I have to admit it is one of my very favorite things we do all year and something I really look forward to.

As the economy has continued to be very difficult it has been a great challenge to our family also. Business has been not so great and it was for the first time in many , many years that doing something like this was a great sacrifice for all involved. We are doing our best to keep the family business going in more than difficult circumstances. We pray daily and hope that what the Lord has in store for us will keep us going.

Needless to say this was a great time for all and we are more than grateful for the Family time for sharing and loving one another. We are so grateful to Ashlee and Jake for getting us this fabulous cabin each year. It belongs to Jake's best friend and his family. Thanks Ashlee and Jake!!!!!

For part of Christmas this year I made all the Grandkids fun colored hats for the trip! I tried to get them done for the adults too but it did not happen. I'll keep trying! Here are some pic's of the grandkids in their hats! Garrett and Bristol seem to somehow have missed the photo shoot!

While our children went out to play in the snow for the afternoon on snowmobiles and tubes and sleds. GiGi (Me) and Grandpa (Nathan) and I watched all seven grandkids! It was party time and GiGi had a fun Valentines Celebration planned. While Garrett and Spencer napped the Girls had Girl time and Grandpa kept baby Bristol occupied. You can see we had a great time! Pedicures, storytime, Valentine making,