February Recap

In February, some of us played in boxes:

One of us went to Wisconsin on a recruiting trip for Micron during the blizzard of the decade, coming home in time to go to the Klondike Derby with the Boy Scouts.

One of us sang 10 Singing Valentines with a quartet.
One of us took some tests (college ACT included) for admission to Treasure Valley Math and Science Center.
Some of us ripped holes in jeans that then needed to be patched.


All of us celebrated Valentine's Day with heart-shaped pancakes.

All of us got sick: colds (no voice Feb 9-12), conjunctivitis (Feb 12-15, 21-27), stomach flu (Feb 20-22).

And now for things we did that didn't have pictures taken. We attended Junior High orientation, TVMSC orientation and Environmental Field Trip orientation. Sabrina babysat all of her brothers while Ryan and I went to Ballet Idaho's "The Piano" - it was really cool! Hyrum discovered that the place he likes to go on Wednesday mornings to play is not "Bodies and Lotion" but "Bodies in Motion". Leo was given the push car for 1 year olds and likes to push and be pushed on it (it's a toy Sabrina got for her 1st birthday). Roderic freely admits his favorite thing about learning to play the violin is playing with the Legos at his teacher's house while waiting for Sabrina's lesson to finish. I finished the finishing touches of our 2010 Christmas pjs (the elastic had been safety pinned, and the appliqué was only attached with wunderunder). Soccer practice started for Sabrina. We bought more wheat for our food storage and Ryan put the containers in the crawl space, doing a little reorganization at the same time. I took Roderic, Hyrum and Leo to the Jim Gill concert at the Egyptian Theatre. Roderic was impressed with the 'artifacts' of ancient Egypt. [Speaking of Egypt, during the last week of January, Trail Wind Elementary had an art exhibit on display to teach the students about ancient Egyptian art and the whole school did art projects on that subject. Since Egypt was someplace they now knew something about, when they heard mention of Egyptian protests, they asked me all sorts of questions. It was good for our family conversations.]

One I love

Even though we celebrate Valentine's day with these:


And these:

And these (White Chocolate Pound Cake with whipping cream and strawberries!):

The thing that shows me that my husband truly loves me is this:
Oh, how I love a man with dishpan hands!

Valentines with HEART

When grocery shopping last week, I came across a bin of Hershey's mini Valentine chocolate bars in the bulk foods section. I waded through and pulled out about 40 Krackel bars (they're my favorite!) I thought they would be fun for Sabrina to use to make Valentines for her school class. After I brought them home and told her about them, she gave me a note from school saying that the 5th grade is having a pot-luck luncheon to celebrate Valentine's day and Valentines were not necessary. Well, what was I to do with 35 mini Krackel bars (I'd already eaten 5)? I decided to use them still for Valentines, but I put them in a Strawberry Nesquik canister and mailed them to my missionary brother! I figure he can eat them all himself, or share them with others. The phrases Sabrina and I wrote on them are variations on "You KRACKEL me up, Valentine!" and "Be Mine. Don't cause my heart to KRACKEL." I thought it was rather clever.


I found these super cute Valentines while blog surfing last night with Ryan (really I was forcing him to look at this bow-tie pattern that I want to buy). The instructions on how to make the valentines are found here! Hyrum had a lot of fun helping me stuff some this morning - we ran out of staples, though.

Valentine Idea

I was reading on nienie and she had this great zip-up sweatshirt on which gave me an idea. I could make one up for me to give to Ryan for a Valentines present! That way, I could be warm and show the world who I love! The words are embroidered with Stacy's embroidery machine and the heart is put on by hand appliqué by me.

If you would like me to make you one, the cost is $12 plus $5 shipping. Tell me the size and color (brown, green, purple, black, blue) of zip-up velour sweatshirt and the name you want embroidered, because I'm pretty sure you all don't want to tell the world you love Mr. Gibby, like me. Order by Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009 and I guarantee it for Valentine's Day! Just send me an email: malaunagibby@gmail.com