Valentines Day Surprises.

Our first surprise came in the mail and was from our lovely Denver Lyssa. We love her and her family. Liam and Sean are always so excited to get a package in the mail. Thanks so much Lyssa for the chocolates and gum. We love you.

Here is Sean decorating his sticker activity that came in the Valentine package. Cute.

Here is Adam also happy but he is happy because he is eating yogurt, one of his favorite snacks.

Later we decided to head to Washington DC to play for a few days. We made the reservation when the storm came so I tried to cancel but they wouldn't let me so we went up there and there were no problems. Once again, the people here just aren't used to much snow. We got a hotel that had a lovely pool so we did a lot of swimming. It was fun.

My sleepy Liam after some fun swimming and adventures.

Sleepy Sean. We watched movies and ate out and played at the mall. We also went to the Museum of Nature and Science. We explored that for an entire day and that was lots of fun.

Here is the George Washington Monument. You can see the snow here. It was a storm but nothing to get too scared about.

D.C. looked very pretty with all the snow. There were people out cross country skiing and walking around and playing in the snow. It was lots of fun. We met my cousin Megan and her son Owen and explored together. We had lots of fun.

When we got home we celebrated Owen's second birthday. My cousin Megan has been living in Mexico for nine months and she made us some delicious authentic Mexican food. It was yummy.

Here we all are eating cake and opening presents. My kids always love having a party.

Megan got a transformer pinata and the kids loved breaking that open.

My strong little Adam going at is with his bat. He is my cute little man.

My lovely husband got me some beautiful flowers for Valentines Day. He arranged them himself. Sometimes he studies at home. Here he is watching his VCU video lectures. He is getting smarter by the week. Good job toodle loo.

The flowers a few days later when they bloomed. I have always loved star gazers. Michael has always been a good flower man.

A few days later another package came from Grandma and Grandpa. Here are Liam and Sean with lots of smile. Opening.............Oh man, remote control cars. Pure coolness. The boys were super excited. There was even one for Mr. Adam.I kind of love this picture bc this really is the face that Adam makes when we tell him to say cheese. This looks a bit scary but this is his cheese smile. Picture this along with him saying "eeeeee." He's really cute. It's good that we have these little people in our lives to crack us up and keep us laughing. Here is Liam driving his car. Not only did Grandma send remote control cars, which were actually found by Grampa at Lowe's, thank you so much but there was also other treats. She sent girl scout cookies, yummmmmm. She sent wonderful books to keep our library collection growing. Thanks to her, we have MANY good books that she has purchased for us. We got various other treats and the package was so nice and so much fun. Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa St. John for the wonderful package

Adam and Sean always playing and coming up with new adventures while Liam is at school.We also gave Adam a hair cut this month. He made it the longest of all the boys. He comes from my hair genes, he doesn't have much. Liam and Sean both got their first haircuts much earlier than twenty months of age. However, Adam had one piece of hair that was a bit out of control. See following..And so we cut it. We just did the old buzz job. He liked the feeling and was a good sport. Before..

After...

His hair makes him look a lot tougher now. Before he would act tough but he had cute curls and a "baby" hairdo. Now he is pulling off his tough act much better. He used to be known as "Tuffy" when little Ryan lived with us last summer, bc he always thought he was so much more tough than him.This is a pic of Sean and his little pre pre k class that a few of us switch doing in the ward. It is fun and the kids are cute. This week was the letter Q so we made queens out of toilet paper rolls. It was fun.

This is a pic of Michael and the boys. One night he was pretending to intabate all of our children. Michael is always thinking about school. When he is home he brings his school brain home. Then he does interesting anesthesia things on us. It is fun having a medical person for a husband. At least I know he will always be able to take care of all of us, and possibly anesthetize us. Good good.

Adam is not so sure.

Liam is making a terrified face. The others think it is quite interesting. Oh my lovely husband.

Well anyhoo, that's just a little bit of what we've been up to. My little sis Allyssa just had a baby boy and Twila just called me and told me she had her little Walt and I'm feeling all those crazy baby feelings again. Oh man, sometimes I wonder when those feelings go away. For now I'm glad I have them because I want a few more little St John people in my life. I love these boys and we have lots of fun playing. Liam had a lovely report card so I told him he could get a reward at Target so he picked Mouse Trap. We've been playing some Mouse trap around here.

The sun seems to never ever come out here. It is so sad. I just want to go outside with some sunshine. I miss all my people and I'm excited for the Warners and their new addition. I'm also excited for Allyssa and Brian and their new baby Jack. Congratulations to you both and thanks again to all the lovely people who sent us packages. We LOVED them. OK, until next post.