Crazy Love Gamble-Style

Valentines Day can be a little over the top sometimes, you know?   Just ask our local Dollar Tree, I've never seen so many balloons in one place in my life.  The entire ceiling was covered!  I couldn't get them all in this picture, crazy! We tend to keep things simple around here, nice low expectations from the kids... They are just as excited to come out and see this as they would be a huge basket full of stuff.   I made my mom these healthy ginger bread hearts .  I love them too, so I may of eaten a few... The girls enjoyed reading their cards and eating a few chocolates before breakfast.   They are  so sweet!  We attended a little surprise party for my friend Heather, then we headed to the mountain to spend the weekend celebrating grandpa John's retirement & birthday. We laughed when we arrived and found this.  Apparently they had asked Jeff to open the cupboards so the pipes woul...

Here are the remainder of the photos from our super fun over night trip to the coast.  Jeff is back!  Yay!  Playing turtle with Uncle Chris  The girls fit under the table, for now... Sweet Hugs Love spending time with the fam!  So fun!!

We haven't been to the beach in a million years so even though we could only go for one night we were super excited to go.   I warned Ava that it was likely the weather would not allow us to actually get down in the sand but that we would of course still have so much fun. But seriously?  Check this out:  It was raining at home when we left!!  : ) I can't stand graffiti!  It makes me mad.  But for some reason this totally cracked me up when I saw it today:  I think this was little Norah's first time as a walker getting down & dirty in the sand.  She LOVED IT.  My Momma  Chris Norah, taking it all in.  Ava was so busy playing I had to threaten her life to get a photo out of her.  She apparently doesn't take me too seriously since this is the best smile I got.  The girls, snuggled up in a hole, playing.  D'Auna & Alayah, resting. ...