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although this place seems to be abandoned, I think I still want to write occassionally because I know I forget too easily to not give myself some place to look back on. Its probably good for me to go here.
Friday, the girls had their school parties and had lots of sweets to show for it. I had hid chocolates hearts in Mitch's front seat under his lunch and a big chocolate heart in his back seat. When I came out from Lili's class there was a navi system in my 4runner-very cool. So then we got home I gave Mitch the last gift I had gotten for him, a gift certificate for a massage at Massage Envy.
Saturday was Valentines day, Mitch had roses delivered for us. I had these beautiful pink (on the outside) red (on the inside) roses. The girls got three yellow roses each with a stuffed animal (that they each went gaga over), they were all very cool. Otherwise we were pretty lazy, low-key throughout the day then we had reservations for dinner at a japanese restaurant we hadn't tried yet, Fujiyama, which turned out to be incredibly delish. Sunday we were just lazy and stayed in from the cold.
Today, we went exploring a little to try out the nav system and found a ferry to cross to Anderson island, which we also discoverd has absolutely nothing on it but houses and a school. So we let the kids play on the playground for a little and then crossed back over to get back home.
Mitch took this whole week off, and the girls have one more day. Tomorrow we are going to Seattle to go to the Lion King, the broadway play. We're all excited and looking forward to it!

mommy power!

I found both the girls' dresses last night and did so at amazing prices! I went to all seven major retail stores in Lacey and picked them from two different stores to get them to somewhat match or at least coordinate together. I ended up with white and black polka dots. So today Ari's dress got taken to the seamstress cuz it was wide across her ribs and she needed shoes. Now I just wish I could find them some little sweaters or something cuz they're both strappy dresses.. I'm not having any luck. The couple I did find were ugly or ridiculously too much dinero.
I got them ruffley socks, and I found a cool aqua colored headband set that came with a couple other silver glittered ones, so I thought Mitch could wear that aqua color shirt. I wished I could come with something more fancy, but that ended up being all I could find in that color for him.. I hope they look nice when it all comes together. Its not even that I want them to be as fancy as last year, we're so grateful that they even all get to go to the Daddy Daughter Dance together. If Mitch had come home when he was expecting to, they wouldn't have even gotten to ;')