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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

I (heart) THE SORENSEN'S

It was a LATE night for Dan and I-we took our valentines date on Friday the 13th (b/c there was youth dance on V-day that Dan and I were chaperoning) Dan got us a babysitter (that is 2 weeks in a row now!! wahoo) and we went to try out a new restaurant that came highly recommended. It so happened that you were suppose to make reservations at this place (unbeknownest to us) and they were serving their 6 course Valentines meal that evening. They squoze us in, and what was going to be a normal dinner out..turned into a fancy valentines dinner for 2. You have to understand that places like these are RARE around these parts. It felt special and was super yummy. I was grateful for it.

Things have been touch and go physically and harmonallysince the miscarriage and this evening was one of those HARD nights (too much info..sorry) The dinner was able to throw me out of the funk I had found myself in.

THEN DAN voluntarily took me to a "chic flick" at the theaters (confessions of a shopaholic) IT was a GREAT, clean, uplifting and fun movie. It had much more depth than I thought it would. I was pleasantly surprised.It was a PERFECT girls valentines dream night--with my eternal HoTtIE who held my hand...to boot! I LOVED it!

After our late evening the kids awoke bright and early the next morning to our traditional simple gifts and home-made sugar cookies!

Colton had double-header basketball games..so Dacie and I went and ran errands (taking presents to the HIGLEYS) and watched some of his games. Dacie wore her heart shirt, heart antennas, and heart jewelry quite proudly wherever we went!

We spent the rest of the day enjoying daddy home, and setting up a new computer airmore we bought from a friend of mine!

Fun Fridays movies and pizza night got pushed back to Saturday evening, and we found the place in town who makes heart shaped PIZZAS so we could enjoy that as a family-Then we opened all our Valentines bags we had made for FHE on Monday evening. It was so sweet to open the tender Valentines we had all made each other and how even the simplest of comments made us smile. It was great Family LOVE!

Then Aunt Cara (we heart auntie Cara too) came over and watched the movie with the kids while....

Dan and I went to take our old airmore and crib to the trash, got a drink and read newspapers by the fireplace at the wildflower bread company...AND finally ended our evening at the youth dance we were helping chaperone at the Sedona chapel. Dan was really trying to drag his feet getting to the dance (as dancing is NOT his thing) BUT we got there FINALLY.... AND had the most fun we have EVER had at a dance! Dan danced!!!!

The ward who was in charge did a phenomenal job, the had blowing bubbles as you walked in, they had covered all the hall lights with pink, the gym was lined with black lights and everyone had glow bracelets, they dropped balloons, had a chocolate fountain (when Dan was not dancing this is where he was) and a table FULL of fancy desserts, gave out prizes, played dancing games and contests, had music videos playing while you danced, handed out pink whoppers at the end, and then put icing hearts all over the car windows in the parking lot while we were dancing!! I had a BLAST dancing with the girls and Natalie Taylor (my friend and fellow stake YW president). It was so rejuvenating...and I was NOT even sore the next day! SWEET!!! It was a great HEART weekend for our family for sure--

Hope you ALL got our LOVE letter to to you!!!

7 comments:

Jentry said...: How cute!
K how were you not sore?! I was SO sore the next day, and the day after that from the dance! haha
Stupid!
It was fun though, and you my lady are a fantastic dancer!! :); February 17, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Trezise Momma said...: How sweet. What neat memories for your Valentine's Day this year, and kudos to Dan for the dancing and chick flick!; February 18, 2009 at 11:17 AM
TexasTwinsTwice said...: What a fun Valentine's Day!!! You have such cute family traditions--love it!! The dance in Sedona sounded ROCKIN!! Glad you had a good time.; February 18, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Marcus, Amy, and Lola said...: you guys are so good about your holidays! sounds like your weekend was GREAT! i miss the kiddos.; February 18, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Emily said...: Valentines Day DOES sound like it's a big thing for you. Amazing all the things you do. I want to step it up a notch or two next year. I'm glad you're doing better, although i didn't know you were having a hard time. I'm sorry about that. You know, I've said it to myself more than once. . . the four of us should go out sometime. I know I may annoy the two of you, but I think you guys are great and I would have fun. :) Let me know if you think you can stand to have an evening out with us. :); February 19, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Dawn said...: looks like you had a BUSY and fun Valentines! sorry I missed sending the kids one...I feel bad! Dacie is adorable in those pictures! I'm really proud of Dan for dancing...sounds like a fun party. thanks for reminding him to call the other night...I figure that's what wives are for...a small part of our "responsibilities"...hope you're feeling better. Give all the kids a kiss for Grandma!; February 19, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Angie said...: You are such a cute mom!!
I love the heart pizzas, too.; February 25, 2009 at 8:34 PM

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~OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES~

2/14/07-Sterling had given me a heart necklace he had gotten in school for Valentines, b/c girls wear necklaces. He even layed it on my counter while I was showering so I would not forget it! I wore it all day proudly. Ryland (2) wanted it, and was trying to talk me out of it, our conversation went something like this:
M(mom): You can't have this necklace, because Sterling gave it to me to wear, and girls wear the necklaces.
R: Pausing for just a moment--you can't wear it forever!
M: Yes, I can.
R:Ummm, no you can't because then you will turn into a fish and not be a part of the family.
M: Wouldn't you be soo sad to not have a mommy?
R: No b/c you will not be in the family.
I am NOT a Fish and He has the necklace now (after Valentines)!

Jan/Feb 2007.-Ryland (2) asks for some "Gatorador" (Gatorade) in his cup. For the life of him with all our coaching he cannot call it just gatorade (he combines it with alligator-gatorade has that sound in it!)

2/16/07-Sterling (5) says out of no where: "Mom, when I have babies you are going to be a grandma" (he is really into who he is going to marry and looking forward to having children right now, weird), I reply "yup!" (thinking of all the fun I will have w/out all the responsibility!-ha ha) Sterling then says, "we will get in the car and come visit you.", and I said, "oh, yes!" he thinks for a minute and says, "you need to live close so we only have to drive a minute to get there." I said, "OK!"(I guess he is tired of making long road trips to visit grandparents! ha ha ha)

2/18/07- Sterling (5) in exasperation says to his brothers who are making a Lego creation, "you guys aren't following my corrections!" (meaning directions)-- he says this terminology frequently.

3/9/07- Remind us to warn the girls that the way to Sterling's (5) heart is through his stomach. After eating something delicious (I think a cup of grapefruit from Gpa's tree) he was telling Colton about it and said "and then I ate a mouthful of love."

3/10/07-Ryland (2) has been doing fairly well about telling us when he has to do a 'stinky', and then doing it in the toilet. Well, today was NOT one of those days--when I asked him why he went in his diaper he replied immediatly, "I look in the mirror and I not growed up yet!" little stinker..literally!

3/28/08 -Ryland (3) was stuck outside with his brothers until they cleaned up the backyard, and they were all having a hard time of it while Dan and I started to eat dinner. Ryland wanted to come in w/out cleaning and started w/ this tactic "mom, my tummy needs something" as he held it and cried big alligator sobs "mom it needs something special", after a few times of repeating this it changed to ," now my heart is crying, mom" "its crying" Oh he is good, but it did not work. I had Dan to keep me strong!

4/1/08- Sterling (5) Dacie was running around naked after leaking out of her diaper all over her crib while I cleaned...AND Sterling exclaimed super suprised, "OH MY, Dacie doesn't have a penis" (we use correct anatomy terminology around here) and then he thought for a minute and said," oh, thats allright--she will get one when she gets older." So you can fill in blanks to the rest of our conversation.

April 2008- Ryland (3) Every time Ryland wants to say tommorow-he says "next year". For instance, we saw a babysitter at the wedding reception and he said, "Mom lets get her next year." Meaning next time we need a babysitter-lets get her. He says it at least once a day-"I will eat my lunch next year!" Oh to be young again- when time is not an issue!

May 2, 2008- Sterling (5) Was outside playing with some girlfriends. He was the dad and one of the other girls was the mom--the rest were children. Sterling promplty sent one to time out and then a little bit later said, " We are the parents so we stay up late like 12 or something!" I sat inside smiling at his interperatation of parenting!

August 3, 2008- Sterling (5) Was getting his hair done for church when he said to me--"you have a big toothbrush like Me and Colton". I told him it was because he was getting bigger teeth. "Oh yeah, mom, Colton and I are turning into teenagers" . Really Sterling? "yeah we are growing into teenagers." Uh oh, I am NOT ready for teenagers!

September 3, 2008- We were talking to Sterling (5) at dinner about clearing the table and he stated, " I am the uncle" I told him he was not, and he said, "If I were the Uncle then I would not have to clear the table" (aah now I understand why he said that) To which I replied, "you are not an uncle until one of your brothers or sister has a baby". I asked Colton if he was having a baby to which Colton (7) replied, " I am NOT having a baby...maybe my wife will." LONG PAUSE "If I find one!"Dan and I could not stop laughing at the conversation that had just happened.

September 20, 2008- When I announced to the kids it was time to do our saturday morning chores. Sterling's (5) reply went something like this, " It is a beautiful day outside the house, NOT inside the house." Nice try Sterling! ha ha ha ha--so I let him wash the sliding door windows OUTSIDE-ha ha

Post toilet training-Ryland (3) always exclaims in a super loud voice after he has gone to the bathroom, "Can someone please change me?" meaning-can someone please wipe me! he's just use to the diaper terminology, I guess!

November 13, 2008- As we are driving down a bumpy, unpaved road to get to preschool (the back way)-Ryland (3) says, "mom the workers need to come fix this road" To which I reply-"You are right!" Then Ryland proceeded to say, "the Lamanites messed this road all up." After getting a good chuckle, I then remembered the other morning a few days ago when Dacie came out of her bedroom with some SERIOUS bed-head and Ryland exclaimed, "Look, Dacie has Lamanite hair!" ha ha ha-- he is on a Lamanite fettish lately (obviously is referring to the unrighteous lamanites in the Book of Mormon-not 'lamanites' of today)

August 8, 2009- Sterling (6)- after getting a check mark on his discipline chart for breaking one of the family rules he loudly exclaimed from the back seat of the car, "I am SO NOT having checkmarks when I am a dad"
To which I replied," So what are you going to do when your child makes bad choices?" Sterling said without hesitation, " Spank him!" To which Dan asked "well, what if he is still bad?" Sterling says, "Spank him again and then put him in time out!"
Why did we not think of that to begin with? ha ha ha

November 2 & 3, 2009- Ryland (4)- Ryland's conversations with us lately have been quite humorous! They have gone something like this:
Last night at FHE Ryland found my eyelgasses and put them on, then he came running out to me and said "look mom, do I look like a professional?" After I recovered from laughing I asked him, "do you even know what a professional is?"
R-"yes, it is a scien~tester (aka scientist)"
Me- "oh, a scientester what are those?"
R-"you know, the bad ones make zombies and the good ones do experiments."

This morning Ryland did not want to wear his jacket to school, so I told him that if I did not have him dress porperly that the school would call the police.
R: "Oh good, I want the police to take me"
Me: "They would not take you, they would take me and give you to someone else to take care of you...wouldn't that be sad?"
R: "not if the new people do not follow satans plan, if they follow Jesus it will be OK"
Me: "What if the new family does not believe in Jesus?"
R: "I would just run away and find someone who follows Jesus."
Me; "Wouldn't you miss me?"
R: "Oh yeah, but you will be out in about 5 years or 75 months or something like that...."

*BTW- so I do not forget- everything to Ryland right now is "hims" and "hers" like Gollum on Lord of the Rings- i.e. "hims mom wants him to go out and play"
He also refers to Dacie's private part as her "bagenie" instead of the proper anatomical word...nice! (can you tell we have been potty training around here) ha ha ha

November 2009- Sterling (7) came home from school on a particularly cloudy, rainy and cold day. The house had "shown" that morning to a potential buyer. I was laying on my bed resting after a 'busy' morning, when the boys walked in returning from school, and Sterling exclaims in a loud voice with absolute utter relief "aaaah, a clean and dry house!!"
Oooh that made my day!!!

November 19, 2009- Ryland (4)
R: Mom, I changed my mind~ I want to have a baby girl
M: Well, its a little too late for that now buddy, we are having a boy. Why do you want a girl instead of a baby brother?
R: Because one day you are going to get old and die and we need another mom
M: Well, Dacie can be the mom
R: She is too tiny
M: Well, this baby would be even younger than Dacie. By the time I die you will be married and then you and your wife can be the mom and dad
R:Oh, I am just talking about next time
M: Next what?
R: Next time you have another baby
OH HECK! I need to make it through this one first! ha ha ha

January 2010- Sterling (7)
Talking about the impending arrival of our new baby. Sterling asked "does it hurt to push out the baby?" To which I replied that "yes, it does." Sterling responded, with ALLOT of emphasis, " I am soooo glad I am not a girl!!" I smiled and then he continued, "another good reason to be a boy is that we get the priesthood." To which I simply smiled and shook my head in agreement. LOVE KIDS!

March 3, 2010- Ryland (almost 5)
We were having a pork roast rub for dinner and Ryland wanted some more..he handed his plate to Dan and said, "give me some more hog please!" ha ha ha we have no idea where he got the "hog" from.
Dacie (3) has also been referring to any form of beans...chili, pork and beans etc. as Boston baked beans. " I want some boston baked beans." She claims she learned that from Grandmas camp and the boys say it is her cousins!

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

I (heart) THE SORENSEN'S

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