After I drop the big girls off at school each day Viv and Levi and me go home and snuggle on the floor for a while. This morning while we were playing Viv said "I love being in this family". It was a great Valentine's gift for me.

Valentine's Day

Elora decorated Levi with stickers for a Valentine picture.

See the bracelets? The dressing up of little brother has officially started!

Here are our Valentine Sweets

Vivian named this unicorn "Castle"

Naomi models the bling

Elora named her puppy "Love"

Elora's World

Here's Elora receiving her A-Honor roll certificate. She must have had one awesome first grade teacher! She was a little disappointed because she would have preferred the blue certificate her friend got for the A-B Honor roll. I'm glad she's more color conscious than competitive.

This is Elora having a teenage moment. She's got painted nails, her stylin' room, and she's talking on the cell phone with a blue tooth ear piece to her cousin Josie. Last but not least, she's got a scowl on her face because her mom popped in uninvited. With a camera.

Elora joined the American Girl book club and just finished her first book much sooner than I expected. I am so pleased with her reading ability. Go Ellie!

Vivi's World

Here's Vivian's picnic. Often when I ask her to clean up these "set-ups" she says she has to keep it out to be a "purise" for the sisters when they come home from school. I usually give in. Who would want to destroy such a sweet display of imagination?

Levi in Motion

This is what the beginning of our last homemade Chinese dinner looked like. I got all the dishes and decor really cheap, so I had to cook a meal to go with it. Everyone was excited at first but before long we could see it would all end in cereal. Daniel and I liked the food, though. I'm going to keep trying to find an Asian recipe I can cook that the girls will eat because the table just looks so cool this way. Any suggestions?

Let Go, Snow!

We had our first snow of the winter on Thursday!

As soon as it started snowing I hustled up to pick up the girls from school so I didn't have to fight too many frightened drivers. People here don't know how to drive in the snow and hate doing it. On my way out of the neighborhood when it had only been snowing for about an hour, we saw this abandoned wrecked truck. Poor scared red-neck!

Elora said on the way home, "finally Arkansas let go snow!"

The girls got right outside and gathered up snow "ice cream" which they ate by the fire. Soon it warmed up and the snow turned to rain, but it was fun while it lasted.

Saturday Skating

Viv kept saying "I want to go fast like that lady".