Valentine's Day 2011

The beginning of last week, as well as the weekend prior, was pretty busy for Matt.  He was busy along with the rest of the base getting ready for a major inspection that took place on Monday and Tuesday.  It wasn't too big of a deal since we do not go too crazy for Valentine's Day anyway, but we still wanted to fit in some festivities for the holiday.  On Monday Hayden and I gathered our V-Day cards for Matt (Hayden had made one for Matt) went through the McDonald's drive-thru to pick up a yogurt parfait for Matt and headed to the base to surprise him.  As suspected, things were extremely busy and we stayed for about two minutes before being shooed out by the hustle and bustle.  Luckily, a friend of ours who lives on base invited us over to play so that was fun and made the trip worth it.  Also luckily, Matt had a parfait to eat because he did not get a break to eat until 4:00 that afternoon.

Matt finally made it home around 7:00 with V-day cards for both Hayden and I.  A nice surprise since I knew he had very little time to go get them.  Hayden was thrilled to get something from Matt.

We sat down to a late dinner and rushed through so that we could move on to decorating our heart-shaped sugar cookies.  We spent just a few minutes doing that before we started H's bed time routine.  A rushed celebration, but at least we fit it in!

Here are some pictures from the cookie making.  Notice Hayden's V-day shirt :)     

The next day the inspection was finally over and the "unofficial" report is that the whole base did extremely well.  A relief considering they spent months getting ready and this inspection only comes around once every four years or so.  Thankfully, things have slowed down since then and we are enjoying a three day weekend now.

In other news, Hayden's bed time and night time sleep issues were holding strong since my last post.  We finally decided to stop letting him nap during the day and that has helped significantly.  Still waking us up at night sometimes (I guess the monsters-in-the-closet phase starts about now) but we are hoping to get through that soon.

Tomorrow is my 20 week ultrasound and hopefully we will find out if we are having a boy or a girl.  We are so excited!  Stay tuned to find out!