Ahh February...thank you for saving us from boring January

Okay February is clearly my favorite month.  There are so many great holidays like Valentines Day, my birthday, and this year LEAP YEAR (which basically means another day of February!!).  I start off every February baring my testimony in Sacrament meeting which to a lot of you would not be fun, but I actually like to do it and it forces me to think about what really is important to me and to share it at least this once a year.  Sharing my testimony in Sacrament meeting just kind of gives me a spiritual boost for the month that i love.  I really should do it more, but it does make February special because its like my own little tradition, i have in my head.
  Anyways next comes my birthday on the 10th.  I dont know why but since I was a child, I have always thought you should just feel differently on your birthday. And I still do.  I know its different as an adult, but I still let myself be excited all day.  I think its fun to just allow the attention to come and just revel in it for one day.  Is that kiddish?  Cordelle stayed home from work and we totally got to hang out all morning which was so fun.  I took a leisurely long time getting ready and then met my basketball girls for lunch.  They were so sweet.  When we got home we packed up the kids and headed to Richfield which turned out to be a very nice drive.  Cordelle was able to get a really slick deal on the Marriott there and we were already needing to take a drive to Ephraim for youth conference preparation plans so we decided to make a weekend out of it and met my parents in Salina for dinner.  After dinner we stopped by my grandparents home they are trying to clean up to sale and helped my dad move some furniture and gather some really cool artwork of my grandma's that had been foolishly thrown into the dumpster out front. (yea, I dumpster dove on my bday.  But it was for a good cause) We went back to the hotel and swam with the kids and all crashed. 
   The next morning we drove to Ephraim, went on a very muddy hike with the kids to the center of Utah, visited some parks and other locations we are using for Youth Conference, got to visit my Grandma Mason in a nursing home and ate birthday cake Cordelle had stored in the trunk for dinner!  It was fun and I really enjoyed the whole trip.  Just should have taken some more pictures....the only ones I got were from the hike.  oh well.

It was muddy, thats why the pants are rolled.  Jaq was carried the whole way thats why her's were not. :)

Can you tell which child got a nap?

You really can see the Manti Temple off in the distance, its pretty cool.

He was a mess which is actually very out of character for him, guess the late night swimming kind of did him in.  How are we ever going to do Disneyland?