Hannah 2nd Birthday Party

Valentine's Dinner

The Simmons have a wonderful Valentine's day tradition. Every year Cindy prepares a special dinner. Every one gets to pick their favorite food and Cindy makes or buys it. It is a secret and so no one knows what anyone else chose except Cindy. Then you can choose to share your food or eat it all yourself. Apparently, one year Brian's sister Trisha chose to eat all of her Mister T cereal and got sick so now everyone shares.

It was really a blessing to have Cindy and Doug home so we could carry on the tradition this year. The Youell's even came out to visit for a few days and so we had our dinner all together.


Cindy chose vegetables.

I chose pizza.

Trisha chose cranberry salad.

Brian chose clam chowder.

Scott chose Salisbury steak.

Doug chose lemon chicken.

Sara chose crab.

Chris chose cherry pie.

Shannon chose Yorkshire pudding.

Makhail chose pumpkin pie.

Visit from the Simmons

As most of you know Brian's parents, Doug and Cindy, are currently serving as office Missionaries in the Russia, Novosibirsk Misson and will be serving there until May 2010. (They have a wonderful blog if any of you would like to check it out simmonsinsiberia.blogspot.com) A couple of weeks ago we got a call that Doug had a hernia and needed surgery. They did not want to have the sugery in Russia and so decided to come home. They arrived on the 8th, Doug had sugery on the 12th and they were back on the plane on the 23rd. Doug's surgery went really well and we were glad for the excuse to see them.

Happy Valentine's Day

Check out our little sweetheart!

Happy Happy Birthday Hannah Dear

Hannah turned 2 today. I can't believe how big she has gotten and how quickly the last two years have gone by.

Good morning birthday girl. One of my friend's moms used to wake them up on their birthday by taking a picture of them. I thought that was a great idea and have decided to do the same thing. (it should be really fun when we hit the teenage years)

We didn't do too much because Hannah is having a big party next Saturday but we did have cake and opened some of her presents. It was especially nice because Brian's parents were able to be there and celebrate with us.

Hannah did pretty well blowing out her candles however she could only blow them out one at a time and between blowing them out she got distracted by the frosting.

Hannah especially like the huge Dora balloon that her grandparents got her. It plays Happy Birthday in both English and Spanish.