Valentines Pics.

Isabelle & Ian with their Valentine balloons and fun treats!








Ian & mommy before our big Valentines date!








Isabelle & mommy before she had her daddy/daughter date!








Ian & daddy. Ian had to have his picture taking too with daddy since Izze did. You can tell they are father and son, for sure.








Isabelle & daddy before their big Valentines date!

Just wanted to share a few Valentine pics. Those two kids are the most amazing little people. They are both different in ways, but each one brings so much joy and laughter into our lives. So blessed to have them.

Weekend happenings...

This weekend was packed full of all things Valentines along with many other things.

Friday, Brian and I tried a new place for our date night/Valentines dinner. Mickey Mantels in Bricktown, it was really good, and perfect for that evening.

We headed to cheesecake Factory for a little dessert, our favorite is the red velvet cream cheese/ cheese cake. So So good. To top the evening off, we headed to the mall for some shopping time. It was a great time with my best friend - my husband.

Saturday was all about Isabelle and daddy's date. She picked Mcdonalds for a happy meal. The kids don't get those very often, so I guess they think they are a really special thing. Then daddy and Isabelle headed down town to Sera Sera Cupcakes for a special cupcake treat. They have really good cupcakes. They even brought mommy and brother one back.
Ian and mommy went on a date too, he picked the same place, we waited until we knew daddy and sister were gone.

Sunday was packed full as well. We had 3 great experiences on Sunday. After the 3 experiences, and naps, we celebrated a little family Valentines day at home. We had cards, balloons for the kids and treats, and mommy got a manicure/pedicure surprise!! We topped it off with strawberry shortcake.

We had a great weekend celebrating being a family, with lots of love.

I truly love my family, I am a blessed woman to have them in my life.

Here's to a great week ahead! The sun is shining today!

Tuesdays down low............

Today is a Tuesday, which feels like a Monday. I think because our Monday was so busy, and just flew right by. Feeling a little slow and tired today. Nothing a little starbucks can't handle, maybe a little afternoon pick me up!

I have many loads of laundry to get done today.

I need to also run some errands and take some things back, don't know if I will make it this morning before I take Izze to school or not. Hopefully though.

Kids and I worked on their own Valentine creations today. Ian is growing and doing stuff so well these days. He is catching right up to Izze.

Tuesday band practice has been moved to Thursday this week, so tonight will actually be a regular night at the Rush household.

Survivor starts this week, yeah... looks to be a good one!

Chiropractic appointment scheduled for today as well.

Need to work on my calendar and bills this afternoon while Ian naps.

Chicken Caesar salad on the menu for tonight.

Need to get caught up in every area today!

Here's to a great day, the sun is shining!!!!!

The down low..........

We had a great time today at our mom's group Valentine party. The kids were really excited, they could hardly wait to eat the goodies, and hand out their Valentines to their friends.

It started snowing this morning, but doesn't look to be a major storm. The roads seem to be good for driving.

Izze is celebrating her 100th day of school today. She was really excited to wear her school shirt, and have cake for a snack today.

I will be helping at Izze's school with her Friendship festival this week. I'm always excited to see her at school, in a different element.

Valentine week this week. Brian and I are trying out a new spot in Bricktown this year. We have heard it is great. Can't wait.

I am getting a new cell phone, yeah!!! It will be a lot easier to text now.

We had a fun family date night this weekend. We took the kids to one of our favorite places to go on our dates. They thought this was special.

Visited papa Jack in the hospital twice this weekend. Hope he gets back home soon, and feels better.

Got to do some shopping by myself this weekend, got a lot done.

Sunday experience was amazing. Sexual Revolution series has started. The worship was great as always. The special, "if you want it, then you gotta put a ring on it", the team did great!! I wanted to stay and watch it again.

Had a great weekend with staff & food!

Christmas Eve/Christmas Day!

This year Christmas was a little different. We had so much snow start on Christmas Eve that we were not able to go see family. We stayed home and celebrated together. Christmas Eve the snow begin to fall, and kept falling and blowing, they called it the blizzard of 09'. The kids wanted to go out in it, we tried it, and they lasted for about 5 seconds, because it was blowing so hard. The next day, Christmas Day was brighter. No wind, so they got to go out and enjoy the beautiful snow. It was too powdery to make a snow man so the kids made snow angels instead. Such a fun time for them, and I so enjoyed watching them.

Christmas Day, the kids were of course ready to open presents. We have a tradition of reading the Christmas story before we open presents, then they get to tear into them. Izze helped sort the presents this year, like a big girl, so very helpful!
They received so many great gifts from their nanny's and papa's. They are proudly displaying their new treasures. We even had a great Christmas dinner, thanks to Walmart down the road, that was about as far as we wanted to try and get out. It was a really great Christmas spent with my most precious people!! We will always remember the Christmas of 09'.

Christmas activities!

This Christmas we had several fun activities, I'll share some highlights from our Christmas week of fun! This year we put together our first gingerbread house. The kids were more than excited to do this. We had wrapped it, and put it under the tree, because it was a special family present to do together. The kids got to open it on Christmas Eve, while we were snowed in. The kids ate a lot of the candy before it made it onto the gingerbread house, oh, and Ian kept eating the frosting out of the bag so we kind of ran out of frosting, but none the less, we thought it was a great looking house. The kids were very proud! The week of Christmas we went down to Bricktown to admire all the festive decorations, and to eat with friends. We even watched as people went down on tubes on the man made snow hill. The kids got to pet the horses down town, these are the horses used for the carriage rides. It was a special time as a family.

Christmas week was full of cooking of course, so the kids got in on the fun. They always want to help me cook, so I let them. They got to make, and bake their very own sugar cookies this year. At the end Ian had green hands from the sprinkles, and they both had tasted some icing. They were really proud of their cookies. Such cute cooks!

Christmas Eve, before the blizzard we headed out for our annual light show. To us this means, getting hot chocolate for the kids, and Starbucks for mommy and daddy, and head to look at Christmas lights. We found some really good ones this year. The kids were so amazed and wanted to touch them all. It is amazing how they get all those lights so perfect. We had such a great Christmas week, one we won't forget. New traditions, and old ones alike!

More to come......

Isabelle's 1st Christmas Program!!!!!

Wow 2010 is here! How could we already be in another year? I feel like I have so much to post since my last post. We had a great Christmas with lots of exciting things going on. My goal is to post as much as possible this week to get caught up.

First thing, Isabelle had her first class Holiday program at school before her Christmas break started. It was so much fun to see her in action. She was a lot more animated than I had anticipated. We got some video and pics., but both Brian and I were so proud. I think we had smiles through the whole thing. Her class had prepared songs to sing for us. They all came into the classroom single file, and up on risers they went. They did several songs many with some actions to them. Izze had her eyes on us most of the time, she was great! She is growing and learning so much, sometimes she surprises me with what she comes up with, or knows. It was a great way to start the Christmas week!

Bass Pro & Santa!

A week or so ago, we took the kids to the Bass Pro shop in Bricktown. They were having free photos with Santa, and a lot of games for the kids to play with, as well as the kids getting to look around the boats, four wheelers, fish tank, etc. Ian was the brave one who got his picture with Santa, Izze wasn't too hip on the idea. It was off to play the games. The kids got to race remote control cars, shoot laser rifles, foam bow n arrows, crafts, and much more. They have a huge fish tank that we all enjoyed. It was a fun experience for all of us.

Edmond Historical Museum!!

I am a little behind on my blogs, so I am hoping to get caught up this week. A week or so ago, the kids and I went to visit the Edmond Historical Museum. This is the second time we have been, and they just love playing in all the pretend centers. The museum has a pretend bank, pretend grocery store, pretend jail, pretend little house, they can shovel pretend dirt, art center, different animal furs to read about, train tables, and more. We had a lot of fun! It is a place we will continue to visit.

GO Thunder!!

(Brian & Myself)These pics were done the time before when we went, a cartoonist drew his version of all of us. We thought it was fun, the guy did a good job.









Isabelle & Ian, so cute. I think it is interesting how we all look somewhat alike.










Yesterday Brian got last minute tickets from a friend to the Thunder basketball game. We decided to take our friend up on the tickets since we don't go that often, and we knew the kids would love it! Tis the season to make some new memories! This was even an extra special game because one of our own, Jamie, one of our worship leaders at PC, was singing the national anthem to open up the game. She did such an awesome job, we were very proud of her! Isabelle and Ian were so excited about the game, and especially the popcorn, one of their favorite things to have. We stayed until half time, then it was off to get the kids to bed. It was a great night with our family and friends!