February 9th - February 15th

Rachel is getting to the stage of life where she is trying to retain control, so she is throwing lots of tantrums. It is a little embarrassing, but we don't give into her even when it is really hard. When she wants to be she is really cute and copies the words we say.  She "talks" all the time. She loves saying by-by to everyone we pass and it makes her so sad when people don't answer, she tries saying it over and over so they will answer. 

Monday 9th - Rachel and I went shopping in the morning. John was able to get off of work a little early, but had to tutor after he got home. 

Tuesday 10th - Rachel and I had a super relaxed day and just hung out at home. John joined us in the evening, and we all hung out.

Wednesday 11th - In the morning Rachel and I went to playgroup.  It was so fun the kids all got to decorate sugar cookies.  Rachel ate all her frosting with a spoon but she had no interest in the cookies.  When we got home I fed Rachel lunch and put her down for her nap.  She was cranky and I was tired but Rachel just played in her room for over an hour.  John tutored after work and when he got home we decided to go to dinner.  We went to Training Table where Rachel had a lot of fun just looking around.

Thursday 12th - In the morning Rachel and I went to Walmart to pick up some food for the ward Valentine's party that John helped plan.  After we got home I worked on painting some crafts and then we both took a nap. John stopped by Discount Tire on his way home hoping to just get the tires rotated, but two were dangerously bald, and the other two were getting low, so instead he got 4 new tires. He decided to get 4 because they were having a nice sale, and he said we got the 4 for about the same price as we could have bought two.

Friday 13th - I needed some fabric so Rachel and I headed to Joann's in the morning. Rachel fell asleep on the way home and she decided that the 15 minutes in the car was enough for the whole day.  After John got home he helped me finish getting Rachel ready and he changed into dresser clothes.  We headed to the ward Valentines dinner.  John ended up having to do most of the work so he didn't get to sit by me much but I still had fun chatting with the others at my table. We ended up being there until 10:00 cleaning up because no one else outside of the Secretary stayed to help.  

Saturday 14th - Happy Valentine's Day! John went for an 11 mile run in the morning.  For lunch we took Rachel over to my aunt and uncle's house where my cousin Katie watched her, and we went to Applebees since John had a gift card.  It was nice to go out to lunch with just John and not have a child crawling back and forth between us. After we picked Rachel up we went home.  Rachel and I took a nap while John played on his computer.  It was nice for all of us to relax.  We spent the rest of the evening hanging out together.

Sunday 15th - We all got to sleep in until 8:30 which was lots of fun.  It was a very relaxed morning getting ready for church.  Rachel had a lot of fun in Sacrament meeting playing with the people behind us.  She was also great in nursery they didn't have to bring her to me or John once. After we got home we let Rachel take a nap which was a mistake because when she got up she was cranky.  She did not want to eat dinner and just kept crying so we FaceTimed my family and Rachel got very happy and ate lots of dinner.  She got to bed a little late since she took a late nap but it worked out well.