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02/14/17 Visit from AJ and Valentine's Day

Aj and Helena Haueter came down from BYU to visit over the weekend.  Friday night Andy worked and Holly had a party so Aj and Katie and Mom and Helena headed to Sullivan park for a walk up to the Hell Hole.  It was a lot of fun.  Afterward we went to Albertson's and AJ treated us to some ice cream.  The car sounded kind of clunky and I asked him about it but he just turned up the radio and said it was fine. 
The next morning AJ and Helena headed to Zion National Park for a hike.  They got almost all the way there when AJ tried to apply the brakes and they weren't working properly.  Apparently something broke...but not what mom was complaining about the night before...cough, cough.  Luckily the traffic they were trying to stop for moved on before the car got to them and AJ was able to stop and pull over.  Also fortunately Helena had AAA insurance which gives a free tow up to 200 miles.  So they towed the car back to St. George, borrowed Dad's mustang and headed out to ZNP -- hours later than planned!  


Sullivan Park hike

Bryce, Marlee, Helena and AJ

Look -- matching girls!!!

Aj and Bryce both like Red!


For Valentine's Day it sounded fun to make sugar cookies.  We decided to make swig cookies and loft house cookies to see which was better.  Holly made swig, Mom made loft house.  They were both delicious.  To be honest by the time we tested them side by side we were all too sugared up to know which was better!! They were both great!  Didn't realize just how many cookies 2 batches could make and ended up spending hours cutting, cooking and decorating cookies.  Girls took a big box to school, mom took a big plate to work and refilled it at lunch time, delivered to McAllister's and Taylor's and still had lots of cookies!!!!  It was fun and Andy wants to make this our new tradition...we'll see!!!!


Katie, the usual cookie maker, had a project due and didn't help!

Holly and Dad preparing the cookies for baking.

They make a good team!

The artist is at work decorating his cookies. 

He's pretty good at this!


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