Valentine's Day, Wild West Night and ELMO!!

Things have been pretty slow around here. It's been really cold and it doesn't make us want to get out and do much. We get a warm day here and there, but for the most part it's just really cold. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel though...2 weeks from today we are headed for a 2 week vacation to SUNNY Thailand! We can't wait...I'm sure there will be lots to blog about!

Valentine's Day came and went without too much fanfare. Aiden had a party at school and we had friend's over for dinner. Aiden asked a Colesie, a friend from school and our neighbor's from Pope's daughter, to be his Valentine. It was really cute (after I got past the whole he's my baby boy thing). He asked her while she was at our house and here's how it went...
Aiden: Colesie, will you be my Valentine?
Colesie: I have a boyfriend in Texas, Aiden.
Aiden: Well, will you be my Valentine?
Colesie: Okay.

Colesie showing off the Valentine that Aiden made her.
A & E at A's school party...I couldn't get that little girl to get out of the picture...I have 3 with her!
Aiden made me (aka his REAL valentine) ;) a flower!

The next night the Officer's Spouse's Club put on Wild West Night. It's there big fundraiser. We did pretty well, too. It was a lot of fun. They had it set up like a casino with a live and silent auctions and lots of raffles....I even won a really cute plant stand and 2 ugly Korean figurines which I think might make cute bookends one day.

Smiley's and the Ferguson's (of course) at WWN!

We went to the O'Club to watch the Superbowl....it's on at 8am on Monday morning here. The guy's get the day off to watch it!

Kim and I cheering on the Saints!!

Then to Elaina's GREAT joy Elmo came to town!!! They came and did a show through the USO. She was over the moon. She got to shake all the characters hands. It was so much fun to watch it through her eyes. She never stopped dancing. At one point all the characters were trying to make each other feel better (it's based on Dad being deployed) and all the characters were hugging, but Zoe wasn't getting a hug. So, Zoe said "Hey, I need a hug." and before I knew it Elaina was running as fast as she could shouting "I'll give you a hug!" It was the cutest thing...I'm sorry to report that she didn't get the hug, but she got a handshake a little later.

Waiting on Elmo to start...she NEVER stopped smiling!
Got to give Zoe a handshake...how cool!

Dancing along with the gang!

At the end of the show...sad to leave!

Now here are just a few randoms I think are fun.

Elaina with her favorite girls over here, Chloe and Kristana, they are Noelle's girl's. We go swimming after school every Thurs and they were putting on a 'show' in the water!

Us in our party suits...mine has new patches!

Patrick's patches, that you can't see real well, are all of the places he's flown in combat (Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan). My little patch is the LA state flag because that's my home state, my proud to be an American patch and my just for fun Butter's babe patch (Patrick's call sign is Butters)!

My Korea patch, We like 'em Big and Slow patch (get your mind out of the gutter...I'm talking about the plane!) and my Smiley face because I had to have a Smiley face! Patrick's other side is his proud to be an American patch and he's supposed to have a home state flag, but he doesn't feel like he has a home state, so he left his blank. Next time we wear them I'll take a picture of our "backsides" because there's more!