One year older and...Valentine's too!

I love this time of year! Not only is it Valentine's, but my birthday too:) Sugar cookies, candy, pink and red colors everywhere, fun presents and Valentine's cards and of course LOVE is in the air. Although I am no longer in my younger years (yes, I turned 25+1) it is still fun to have a birthday. I didn't get to decorate sugar cookies with all my friends like in the old days, but I was lucky to spend the day with one of my favorite little people- Alli J.-she even told me Happy B-day(in her own way of course-by taking a good nap:)). We played together, and then we kept it kinda low key with Brian and I going out to dinner together without our little munchkin runnin' around and I had my favorite dish-filet mignon! Yum! I got some fun things in the mail thanks to my lovely families and some nice stuff from Alli & Brian. Oh, yeah, and our good buds Steph and Dave surprised me with my favorite dessert-a Culver's Chocolate Snickers Concrete Mixer that I got to have all to myself AND a nice gift card to my favorite place to eat out-OUTBACK!What! I guess it wasn't so bad turning 26 after all:) Boo ya!

 

 Yes, Alli likes to wear Brian's basketball shoes too!

Alli turned 15 months old this Feb. and is FULL of it, I mean, life!:) She is still short at a whoppin' 29.25 in.-15th%tile, and 23.5 lbs 55th%tile, but we L-O-V-E her:)

 

Oh and in case you didn't hear, we have LOADS and LOADS of snow right now and this is what Alli thinks of it ...

I think I agree with her!  Here is our pitiful attempt at making a snow man-mind you we are from Southern "sunny" Utah:)

and we were only able to be out there for a max of 5 minutes with our little one who sunk all the way down with that short stature of hers:)

Valentines was fun-Alli got some sweet sunglasses to help her with the blinding reflection that comes off of the snow(not the sun cause their ain't none:( Don't mind her runny nose, chocolate on her face and slobber on her chest-she has come down with one yucky cold, bummer...

 

and she loves to draw and color(on)everything, so an etch-a-sketch thingy was her choice of toys at the store:)

Brian got me this delicious piece of heaven

Chocolate and Reese's from Cold Stone anyone? Yummy in my tummy! How did he know what I wanted? What a wonderful week of events, even though there is snow:)