Fun times in Lakeland

It was wonderful to be able to spend a few days in Lakeland and see where they were living and what they were up to and what the weather was like. One of the highlights was getting to enjoy Lainey's wonderful cooking. Pictured here is the night we had homemade Pad Thai - even the sauce was homemade (see detail photo below). This was Saturday night and the girls were at a babysitting play group, so that's why it's just us. Sunday Lainy made a wonderful Lemon Chicken recipe from Cook's Magazine, and the girls and I set the table fancy. We closed the blinds and had a candlelight dinner :)
Earlier in the afternoon on Sunday while Lou was napping, Curly got dressed up in her Ariel's wedding dress costume and we went outside to take pictures for fun. (see picture below). Oh yes, the last picture here is from the garden center we went to Saturday. I couldn't help but take a picture because what was available there in the outdoor section of the garden center was so different from what's available at home in the snow right at the moment! Maybe this will give all of you out there in the snow hope that spring will come.
Here's a list of other things I got to do:
see Curly's preschool; play with the disney princess mat and figures with Curly; hear Lou recite part of "the proclamation on the family" from heart in her cute two-year old voice; sing songs in the car on the way home from the zoo; have both Curly and Lou come slip into the futon where I was sleeping in the early morning to get warm; dance in the family room with Curly and Lou; have Lainey help me with how to put photos on a blog; have Fisher take me to the airport and have that quality time to chat with him; help Lainey organize a cupboard (sucess! it all fit back in:); have a picnic on the family room floor with Lou; watch Curly draw a picture of her testimony after church on Sunday.