What its like in our house

Why do i love blogs today? well because i can brag about how wonderful my valentines day was and how sweet my husband is and not feel bad because... well you really don't have to read it.

Love for us this valentines day was spending time with some of the cutest kids in the world and  hoping that someday our kids are as cute as her!!

We sat on the couch and stared into each others eyes for hours...... or a few minutes......

  My darling friend melanie and I decided to do the 12 days of valentines day for our husbands! We left little notes, puzzles, poems and treats through out the week...

And then...
THIS was our valentines date meal! we were so proud of it we just stared at it for while! we stared so long our food got cold...  Marsh brought me a dozen PERFECT red roses ( im kind of particular about my flowers.. ) he also made me a CD of all  my favorite love songs! he even sacrificed and listened to country music to find some of them :) he had candles and everything and set it all up. It looked WAY more amazing than this picture can show. For dinner you might be able to see what did we get but... IN AND OUT! it looked awesome, and tasted awesome. what a fun night!
Add that with my thomas the train book from a cute 4 year old and I'll say i had the BEST. VALENTINES DAY. EVER!
hope you did too.

In the name of L-O-V-E

Its the best four letter word you'll ever use.
you know the word, you use it too much
you don't use it enough
hold on to it like a precious gem
you toss it out to your BFFs, you know the ones that have been there for everything
you feel it for your parents on graduation day
you keep this word at the tip of your tounge
but you never let it slip until the time is JUST..... Right...
you dream about it
you pray for it
you fall into it
your 13 yr old sister is always talking about it
you even think you know what it really means when your standing out side the temple looking up at your very best friend smiling for another picture with all your favorite people around...
Its a word that grows you see
its always always growing
and 6 months later.. exactly.. today..
you realize that if THIS is love,  you don't know what you were feeling then.
It what you hope you have in 40, 50 years down the road.
its love!
Its the word that makes the world go round!
The reason we are here
The reason your parents had you,
and doctors become doctors
the Reason our Savior suffered for our sins
The reason we can live forever
the reason we make promises forever.
And so for this precious day we spend hours writing more than 50 Valentines to all the nieces and nephews and brothers and sisters
we bake treats and listen to love songs
we cut out hearts just to have around
and we KISS... and its wonderful!
And so my loves,
mom dad aaron sara adam tom joy grandma granpa fern allen, the (jeff) Hills, the Driskills, the Montagues, the (dan) hills,  the (cam) hill, the Childress's, the Hansens, the Coulum's, La La, josh, Sara lou, Hollie, Nique, Chel, The Hoops, Dax and Melanie, Jon and Andrea, Jenessa and brody, Kasee and Jason, The husbergs, Service council The layton high basketball team, Jimmer, and especially
my Very best dearest closest friend and husband Marshall
I LOVE YOU!

'Please bless Chinaland'

Yes i just took a picture of our dinner! Happy Chinese New Year! Thank you panda express for giving everyone free dinner today! I also came home and made up a nice batch of pot stickers! Note to self: they STICK TO THE POT! I really hope that our wedding pan survives.. it might be a close call.
This blog is dedicated to Chinaland.. and all the wonderful things i don't know about it yet.

wonderful thing number 1:
I said yet at the end of that sentence because we plan on going.. next semester, next summer, next decade but it will be a next. We desperately want to teach english there through an organization called CHINA HORIZENS http://www.chinahorizons.org/ It was started by a guy at BYU, its a great price for 4 months of amazing experiences in the wonderful chinaland! this is where 'please bless chinaland' comes makes its debut. Last night, Marsh and i were making our list of things to pray about before we went to bed, it came up that we probably ought to pray about whether or not we should really go to china. It was marshall's turn to pray and for some reason  the way he prayed for it made us both start laughing so hard we couldn't stop. we lauged and laughed and laughed some more until our abs hurts and tears were rolling down our faces, but we couldn't say anything because we were in the middle of a prayer! after probably 5 full minutes of uncontrollable yet reverent laughter we finished with a sincere prayer and have made it through the day without being struck down yet. Im feeling really good to about going to Chinaland now.. that definitely wasn't a stupor of thought

Wonderful thing # 2: they speak a really cool language there! and our favorite brother and sister that live in st. george lived there for two years! ( i say favorite kinda like how Nana says.. "you are my favorite kindergarten girl" because there is only one) But we love Dan and Andrea and China seemed to have make them happy and they sure had some adorable kids there!

Wonderful thing #3 The Great Wall of China!

Wonderful thing #4 Chinese food makes you skinnier and smile more

Wonderful thing #5 Last but not least, Chinese New year gives you a whole new start on your new years resolution! Marsh and i decided that since we have already broken almost all of our New Years Resolutions, this is a great way to get a second try at being perfect! Second time's a charm...

Thank you for Chinaland.