February-ness

Are you ready for the mother-load of posts?

We had a busy and fun February.

And most of all, I'm glad it's over and March is here... lots and lots and lots to look forward to in the coming months.

So, let's break it down--

1. New Beginnings

Have I mentioned I was called in November to be the Young Women's secretary?

It is fun and a new challenge and change of scenery from what I'm used to and I LOVE IT.

It is a privilege to work with the other leaders and we have a great group of about 17 girls who come regularly.

Our president is particularly talented and I love how she does things.. I don't remember New Beginnings being this cool.

The theme was "It's a jungle out there."

My assignment was the refreshments and we made jungle animal cupcakes.

They were a labor of love and Alyssa-friend came over and helped me for 4 hours!

The leaders minus Natalie - Shanna, Patsy, Kendee, Jana, Bethany

Can you tell what each one is? Hopefully they are recognizable.. A zebra, monkey, lion and tiger.

Sign-in table with the guides for the Personal Progress Scavenger hunt... brilliant idea.

The stage before the night began.

Next up...

2. Lovely Lover's Day...

Much of our Valentine's day and every other holiday surrounds food. Whenever we go to the store before a holiday, we always end up getting way more food than we can handle but end up justifying it by saying, "we can have this for Valentine's breakfast," or whatever it is... What can we say? We are lovers of foodness.

Brooke opening her Valentine

Chocolate-covered strawberry yumminess

Brent was in charge of the yummy Belgian waffle+strawberries+whipped cream+bacon+scrambled eggs+orange juice

Let me tell you... this guy can make a mean breakfast.

Happy to be eating Daddy's food-iness.

I also want to remember that for dinner we had Tuscan chicken cakes with tomato-basil relish... if you don't know what these are, you should look in my recipe label, because they will surely make your life complete.
Of course, after stuffing ourselves with great food and candy all day, we had to make our annual heart cake.
Dark chocolate cake with ganache on top really brought the day to a blissful close.
Full bellies + full hearts = lots 'o love.

Brent decorating the LOVE cake.

Are you still with me?

3. Bedroom change

This is trivial and less-than-important to the blogging world, but fun for me. And we blog for ourselves, right?
Ha. Yeah, right.
So... we switched our bed to the other wall...
I like the change... it opens up the traffic flow, but the accent wall does stand out maybe in a bad way.

Thoughts?

Yes, I know the picture is not centered..

4. B-rookie: Our Potty-star!

Happy to report total success in the potty department!

She is in a diaper for naps and at night-time but we haven't had an accident in over two weeks and she's done great the last two weeks while in nursery at church.

We're all very happy and can constantly be seen doing a celebration potty dance in her honor.
Thank you for all of your advice, everyone!

Everyone's comments were so valuable.

I do have to say that I don't think it was really anything I did with Brooke.

She is so smart and caught on so fast and really did most of it herself.

Brooke with her big potty prize after going #2 for the first time.

Happy lady

I can't imagine you are still reading but just in case, here's #5

5. Brent's job change

Brent will be starting his third rotation with the AT&T leadership development program next Monday.
This is wonderful as can be because his 2ND rotation was maybe one of the hardest 8 months of my life.... (probably an exaggeration, but still very hard)

It was normal for him to work for 14 hour days and in this next job, the schedule will be much better and much more realistic.

Also, to go along with this, we almost had to move to Dallas for this rotation.

Prayers were answered and we're obviously staying here, but there is a good possibility we will be moving when he is out of the program in October, but I'm still crossing my fingers.

I really really REALLY love San Antonio.

Alrighty...

I think that about covers it... the hip happenings from US lately...!