Valentine's Day 2012

A month and a half late? Not too shabby. Just wait until I post our Thanksgiving pictures from last year... maybe I'll get to that mid-spring, early summer. :)

Being that Valentine's Day was a Tuesday this year, and Freddy worked all day, and we both had tons of homework to do, and I even had a video group meeting for one of my classes at 9 that night (how romantic).. it would be safe to say that Valentine's Day was pretty low key this year. (And also, with F's birthday just days after Valentine's Day, we kind of celebrate that with more oomph than the 14th gets.

But! We did go to Texas Roadhouse for dinner. :) What's better place to spend any holiday, weekend, weekday, or any time, ever? :) 

I love that restaurants give kids crayons. Straight up genius.

Happy Valentine's day to a couple of love birds! :)

I love Nathan's overalls. :) I'll be so sad when he out grows them!

Another happy Valentine's day in the books!

I {can'twaituntil} They Call Me on a Mission.

(Side note: Nathan just walked up and saw me posting this and he said, "Oh! It's Nathan! Nathan's going to church with his little tie!" Heh heh..)

Here's our little missionary!  

So, lately Nathan's been pretty obsessed with missionaries.  He loves them. What's not to love? They ride bikes, and get to wear helmets. They shake his hand, they wear name tags.. they're the best!  We had them over for dinner a couple weeks ago, and now every so often when we sit down for dinner Nathan will point across the table and ask, "Where are my missionaries???" 

These boys are so handsome! 

And you know how kids pretend to be people? Well, Nathan pretends to be our ward missionaries. It's hilarious. You can imagine his surprise when I pulled out Freddy's old name tag-- "WOWWWWW! Cooooool!!! Look, Mami, I'm a missionary!!" He talks constantly about when he's going to go on an airplane and be a missionary. :)

Thank you, Sarah, for the matching ties!

When we drive in the car, he loves to sing songs-- and one of his favorites is the primary song, "I Hope They Call Me on a Mission." It's SO cute! (He calls it the Missionary Song. Or like, the MishunARY Song..) :)

Some of the other songs he knows how to sing and loves:

Popcorn Popping

Once There Was a Snowman

Book of Mormon Stories (Or, to him, Moman Stories)

Follow the Prophet

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam (That's a favorite... A sunnnnBEAM! A sunnnnBEAM!)

Eensie Weensie Spider (or Itsy Bitsy-- whatever.)

 (That's all I can think of right now--)