Catch Up

I'm really behind on the blog. I know. First things first, happy 26 to me! Yay. To celebrate Aaron and the kids cleaned up the house, decorated, and made me chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast. I hadn't come downstairs yet, and I could hear Aaron say to Lincoln, "Go upstairs and tell Mom that breakfast is ready, and don't say anything else, and then come back downstairs." So Linc comes running up the stairs...."Mom, breakfast is ready!.......And I think you're going to be really surprised, because we helped Dad clean up the toys and blow up balloons." I had to giggle. I love 4 year olds.

For my birthday I got exactly what I wanted...money to buy trees! I think we can get all the trees we have planned out on our yard diagram. I'm pretty excited. I can't wait for spring. Provided that things go through with the house, of course.

Thursday night the other ladies in the Primary Presidency took me out to dinner for my bday. We went to Old Spaghetti Factory. I love these ladies. I wish I would have taken a picture of us. It's been so fun working with them the last year. On Friday night, my Mom and Kerry and Tanner came down, and Tanner watched our kids, while Mom and Kerry took us out to dinner again. Two nights in a row for me, I know, I'm spoiled. We went to my all-time favorite restaurant...Texas Road House! Mmmmmm. Heaven on a dinner plate, that's what it is. Aaron also made me a Sweet German Chocolate Cake from scratch. He's pretty much amazing. And the cake was fabulous. Mmmmmmm.

Here are some other random things I've been meaning to post. Starting with my shoe-obsessive daughter. I guess there's a little bit of Granny Jan in all of us. ;) The last two are of her wearing Ivan's sun glasses and Grandpa Swan's shoes. She was such a crack up walking all over the living room in them.

The other day it was warm enough to ride bikes outside. Lincoln chose to play in the back yard with his friend instead, so it was just Adelia and Ivan and I in front riding bikes. Adelia wanted to ride Ivan's little trike, so I put Ivan on Lincoln's bike to see if he could do it. He did great. He can peddle and everything, which makes me really excited for his birthday coming up, because he's getting a bike of his own. Adelia will be able to inherit the trike, and life will be grand. On a side note, Adelia loves my St. Louis beanie. That's the one she chooses to wear every time we go outside, and sometimes she'll even put it on to wear around the house. Silly girl, at least she's sticking with the National League. :)

And lastly, Aaron made us Italian Sodas for date night the other night. So we drank Italian Sodas and watched Failure to Launch. I thought the movie was incredibly stupid, but the sodas were great.

Oh ya, I should probably give a house update. Aaron's dad is here with us this weekend to do the inspection on it. They looked at the outside on Saturday and it looked good. They'll do the inside tomorrow. And we'll go from there.