love - LoVe - LOVE

an unconventional post for this Valentine's Day to celebrate some of the little things I love....

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I kept thinking about my favorite treat today - Chocolate Covered Cinnamon Bears.  I tried not to think of them too much, as I have yet to find a place that sells them, or even a place that sells Cinnamon Bears that I could dip into chocolate.  Then as I was taking Jacob to preschool, our Concierge told me we had a package, and I waited patiently until after my errands to open it up.  Thankfully Grandma Joy's Valentine's Day Box included a little indulgence for myself as well as for the kiddos....there were my dreams in reality....my Chocolate Covered Cinnamon Bears!  I love these amazing morsels of goodness!   I love my mom more for thinking to send them to me.  I would really love if I could figure out a way to order their 25 pound box and put some of these bites of heaven into food storage.  

LoVe......
When Bryson Jr. gets excited to clean the toilet for me and tells me he is the best toilet cleaner ever!  I completely agree :)  These are pictures from last Saturday's chores, and I am still only taking pictures on my camera so the quality isn't the greatest, but I'm going crazy with not having a camera!  I feel like I haven't really documented life since my camera broke last November....ahhhhhh!  I was going to send in my camera to be fixed this week....but now I can't find the receipt which is supposed to accompany the camera.  I hope that I can find that receipt soon - I want a "real" camera again!  Anyway - that isn't what I LoVe, so back to this....

One of Madeleine's jobs was to help Jacob match the socks and then fold them up to put away.  She was very patient and made it into a fun game (she is getting great at this - many times having more patience and better ideas than I come up with!) - where Jacob took the folded socks and shot them into the basket (a.k.a. the IKEA bag) and quickly worked their way through the pile of socks while have a great time and practicing Jimmer shots!

and i LOVE these cheeks and this precious new babe!  Welcome little Juliet to the family....my sister Brooke had her second little girl early Saturday morning, and this is our only picture of this sweet new love in our family.  I wish we were closer so I could hold her and kiss those cheeks!

p.s. I don't love.....
*that I can't figure out the date system on the new blogger!  I had started this post on Valentine's Day....around 11pm.  However, Bryson got home right after that (another part that I don't love so much....the late nights home) and so I published the post to make the sure the date would hold, and then saved it as a draft.  Now, when I went to publish it - it came up for Tuesday, the 15th.  The old blogger did not do that!  What is going on?!  How can I make sure to have a post actually post on the day that I want it to?

Anyone?  Please help!! :)