I'm a day late on this week's post because Jared and I escaped to St. George for a little getaway while my parents stay with the kids. So far we are having a refreshing, wonderful time together. I will report back on our time in St. George in next week's post. For today's post, I believe I have pictures from most of the big stuff, so I'll do recap our week in the form of photo captions:
^^Valentine's Day dinner! We had homemade tomato soup, grilled cheese, some sausages, and "fancy" drinks. In reality our Valentine's celebrations were cobbled together in a "this is the best I can do" sort of way. My week was really busy with doctor's appointments, packing for St. George, meal planning and getting the house ready for my parents to come stay for a few days, and a few other items of business. But we still had a nice little time, and Jack loved exchanging Valentines at school.
^^Jack captured this casual lil morning moment
^^We got an intense snowstorm last week. The highlight was taking Jack to the huge sledding hill near our house and watching him fly down it with a bunch of other neighborhood kids. (Alice got out of the car and immediately face-planted into the snow, then immediately wanted to get back in the warm car with me, so we got to watch from there until she recovered. Hooray!)
The worst part of the snowstorm was how insanely icy all the roads got. It took Jared THREE HOURS to drive home from work. This is a drive that normally takes him 20 minutes without traffic, or sometimes 40 minutes if the traffic's bad. THREE HOURS. I was so grateful to have my parents invite me and the kids to join them for dinner at a restaurant near our house. It was treacherous to get to the restaurant and back, but it was nice to be with my parents and distracted instead of sitting at home stewing and wondering if Jared would ever make it home in his little sedan.
^^The view from the top of the foothill where I usually take Savvy for her walk. I love having foothills in walking distance. So does Savvy.
^^Jack had his last game for his little i9 sports spring season. He was honestly too old to be on this team (it was for ages 4-6 but he's going to be 7 this week) so it wasn't as fun of an experience as we would've liked. But it was a good learning experience (he was very gentle and patient interacting with the littlest kids), and we found him an NFL youth flag football league to start next month. This is the same flag football thing he did for 2 years in Washington and loved. He's excited.
Jared told me to dress Sunday casual, but we were some of the most casual ones there. The dress-code definitely leaned more black-tie fancy. We saw men in full suits that were covered in pink hearts, and ladies with floor-length sparkly ballgowns. It was a BLAST. Included in the ticket was a sit-down dinner, a photo booth, an open mocktail bar (fancy non-alcoholic drinks), and dancing to an incredible live band. It was the most fun dancing experience we've had . . . ever. Easily. By far. Jared's never been much of a dancer but he danced the night away with me. I do think the live cover band was what made the night such a blast. They were fun and talented and had great choreography. They played fun music from every decade. I should've taken a longer video clip of them, but here's a little taste:
I told Jared it was the best date he's ever taken me on. I'm really impressed that he pulled off the surprise so flawlessly, and grateful my parents came to watch the kids while we went. This will have to be a new Valentine's tradition. Next time I'm going to wear something sparkly. So fun!