Well VAlentine's Day has come and gone. And poor Scott missed it. He was home sick on Valentine's Day. We had spent last weekend making Valentine chocolate lollipops with small candy canes and he constructed a monster valentine box to collect his own goodies. On Sunday night he was feeling sick and had a fever so I had to keep him home. I did run his Valentine treats up to school however. He was shooting for a prize for the best Valentine box(his box won).
I treated Tom to his favorite coffee(Peets coffee) and poppy seed scones for Valentine's day breakfast with a dozen red roses and a card at dinner time. Tom put together a coffee mug for me with family photos that he ordered from snapfish online photos.

Speaking of photos DAd Seitz. Tom sent our photos that you requested off to be printed by snapfish-hopefully they have arrived by now. I was trying to photocopy our wedding photo and the kids christmas print at Staples but since there are copyright issues with professional photos, they could not make the copies for me. They offered to allow me to make the colored copies myself but their copier was down. So was the colored copier at Target. Plus I don't think they would let me make the copies anyway. I have had that problem in the past. I just wasn't sure about the quality of the photos if Tom scanned them first on his computer. Guess you can let us know.

We have been busy taking photos lately. Scott had his Blue and Gold Cub Scout banquet on Saturday at which he bridged to Boy SCouts. He and Tom chose a troop and they were there to welcome him and give him his new kerchief. Scott is very excited. He also enjoyed making another winning cake! The theme was Football and tailgating food. Scott took on a football stadium cake and won for Scouts Choice. He actually won two prizes again, but could only take home one medal. He also won Scouts Choice for best cake last year as well! We are looking forward to his first Boy Scout meeting this coming week. Of course, it looks like I will be taking him since Tom is out of town. At least he did not have to worry about getting coverage for Allison's field hockey since it wasn't scheduled on the holiday weekend.

On Sunday afternoon Tom headed to Chicago and then he is off to LA for the rest of the week. I taken off Monday and Tuesday to spend time with the kids who are off for Presidents Day and parent teacher conferences. I had planned on taking the kids skiing, but my knee is still swollen and sore and I did not want to reinjure myself on the slopes and not be able to drive home from PA. I also did not feel comfortable leaving the kids on the slopes by themselves. Instead, I felt more comfortable letting them snow tube while I sat in the lodge and read my book(sound familiar Laura!). I invited a buddy for Scott-our previous neighbor's son Sammy. The kids enjoyed themselves but Scott was a bit saddened. He did not realize that tubing was another name for sledding! He couldn't understand why he couldn't ski with a perfectly good hill right next to the tubing slope! Maybe next month. I did bring Sammy back to our house for a sleepover since Scott was off school on Monday. Allison even had a sleepover on the weekend with Sammy's sister at their house. Allison had a day off on Friday but had to stay home with Tom while he waited(once again) for the appliance repairman. Finally he had all the necessary parts and it looks like my dishwasher control panel is up and running again(finally!) and no beeping! I would have been home but ended up making up a day of work since Scott was home on Monday. Too bad I didn't miss out on the yearly clinic survey and staff meeting where they look over our clinic and double check our paperwork with a fine toothed comb. So far everything looks pretty good, but we were under an audit from Medicare so we have to be careful with our documentation and treatments. I ended up working late on Friday night trying to help the staff get caught up with paperwork. I met SCott and Tom and Cookie afterwards for Yappy Hour at our favorite wine store owned by the MSU grad. We enjoy the wine tastings and checking out all the different dogs that visit with their owners. A portion of the proceeds from wine sales for the evening go to animal shelters. We are always amazed at the different types of dogs. Especially the great dane that was as tall as most people there(and he was standing on all 4 paws!).

It also looks like we are not quite done with winter. We had a few warmer days last week and most of our snow melted. But more snow is on the way!

A very Happy Birthday shout out to cousins Caroline and Clayton Bozyk who both turned 15 on Sunday! Happy Birthday you two! I was happy to see some photos on your facebook pages that Allison pulled up. She even got in touch with cousin Sarah on her facebook this week(Allison is enjoying my newly won laptop).

Looking forward to another busy week. Kathleen