A LONG Weekend

February 13-17, 2014

The men in our family spent the holiday weekend ice fishing at the cabin  - their annual Man Trip.  Zack was finally old enough to go and actually won the holey ladle - the prize for catching the first, biggest, or most fish.

The group that goes has grown over the years to include new in-laws and friends.  I don't know exactly what goes on at the cabin during the man trip, lots of movies and card games I'm guessing, and I don't really want to know.

Back home we kept ourselves entertained.  Friday was Valentine's Day and Camryn and Seth had some friends over for a little party.  They had French Bread Pizza for dinner.

and decorated Valentine's cupcakes.

Then the boys watched a movie upstairs and the girls watched parts of some movies downstairs (but mostly just talked and got rowdy).  It was a loud and crazy night.

Alexis and the twins had a tournament that weekend.  Alexis was actually told by the ref to get off the field until she stopped bleeding.  The turf just ate the skin off her knees.  The team did not do well, as usual.  After Saturday's game we stopped by the store to get smores supplies and Lex and Chase went to Lawson's birthday party- still stinky, bloody, and uniformed.

Camryn had a President Project due the next week, so we worked on this Teddy Roosevelt doll made out of a 2 liter bottle. It turned out really cute,

The girls got new clothes for Valentine's Day and wanted a pic before church.  We had a girls (and Seth) dinner over at my mom's that afternoon.

That night Chris and I took the kids to have midnight breakfast at Green Valley Ranch.  The food was pretty good and really cheap, but we spent a ridiculous amount on chocolate milk!

I ended my long weekend with getting a group of ladies together to go see A Winter's Tale.  I had read the book and loved it, although it was very literary and strange.  The movie was just OK and even more strange, without the ability to explain it strangeness like a book can. I was sad that some of my favorite story lines from the book had been cut, but that tends to happen.  We lunched at the Olive Garden and I enjoyed chatting with my family and friends.