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By Sarah
Valentine's Day this year including love notes, decorating cookies, and our turn to teach our co-op preschool the first two weeks of the month.  I just had to include that picture of Kaelah posing with her work.  (:  And Lexi was so sweet to help Michelle complete her projects -- we always print one extra b/c she loves to be included and does a pretty good job keeping up with the others.  I'm going to try sending her with Danny to our preschool co-op next year and see how she does.  This year Kaelah is the oldest & Danny is the youngest while next year Danny will be the oldest and Michelle might be the youngest.  We took our last turn early since I'm VERY pregnant right now.  It was strange to know I was all done with my turns for the year the first week of March.  I'm glad, though, b/c I can't get anything done when it's my turn to teach.  I have noticed Kaelah and Danny sure have wanted to play hooky!  Wondering if they thought since I was done, everyone else should be too?  I let them stay home last Tuesday b/c hey, I'm going to be out of commission for a while coming up here, and if they want to spend time with Mommy, so be it.  They'll all be in elementary school before I know it and I'll miss my preschoolers so much!


Our annual photo from the best stake activity of the year: the adults' Valentine Dance.  This year the theme was Phantom of the Opera.  The activities committee always does a great job and it is so much fun to get out and dance with my favorite person in the world.  This year I had to take a lot of breaks from dancing, though.  I bet you can see why: baby on board!

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