valentine's day

family fun night

{valentine edition}

have a fancy candlelight dinner 

don't forget to use the nice stemware (aka: plastic dollar store glasses)

play stacking hearts...race to see who can build the tallest tower of conversation hearts

it's the little things...race to transfer m&ms from one container to another using only a straw

go on a hugs and kisses hunt

snuggle and kiss your valentines!!!

Valentine's Day

Earlier in the month, I added a few small Valentine's touches to our home.  I'm not sure anyone even noticed it because we then had the busiest two weeks of our lives and our home was where we slept and showered and that was it.

But, the busyness ended and on Valentine's Day we were able to slow down and enjoy it.  Grace was begging for a craft to do together.  She was definitely needing some attention which she had been missing out on.  Thankfully, I know her pretty well (because we are basically the same person) and came home prepared with leftover pieces from school.  

We made some cute love bugs!!!

Then, we took advantage of the warmish temperature and played at the park.

The temp dropped pretty quickly so we checked out this cool new Lego store before heading home to our "romantic" dinner.  Yep, we ate Zaxby's by candlelight and drank out of fancy dollar store glasses.

There was an enormous sugar intake after dinner...candy, cupcakes, and more candy!

We did a little candy heart science experiment before giving the kiddos their Valentine's.

John took care of the gifts because he is a good daddy!!!

Carter got some yummy chocolate covered strawberries that he was willing to share.

And, Grace was given some flowers.  When John gave them to her she said, "Thank you!  Now, I'm a lady!"  Ha!

Us.  He's my favorite.

We had a fun day...spending time together and eating lots of candy!!!

Valentine's Day

John and Carter went shopping and Carter "got balloons for everybody!!! 'Cause it is Valentine's Day and it's gonna be a party!"

We went on a family date and saw "The Lego Movie."  And...it was "awesome!"

But...the really awesome part was eating one of my very favorite meals!!!  Mmm!  We had J Alexander's steak maui with not your ordinary mac and cheese...sooo good!  The best part...we got to eat it in our pajamas!!!

After dinner, we gave the kiddos their Valentine's.

You know...'cause we love them and stuff!

I hope you had a nice Valentine's Day with your favorite peeps too!

our valentines

Our Valentine cards are all ready to pass out on Friday at class parties.  We finished a day early...it's a miracle (really, it's because church was cancelled tonight).

Grace wanted to make hers all by herself.  She drew Olaf and wrote "I like warm hugs!" on her cards and then she glued a Hershey's Hug on Olaf's stick arm.  She worked so hard on these and is super proud of them!

She made her teacher one too, but I thought a kindergarten teacher should get a little something more than one chocolate hug.  So, we printed this off and added some of my favorite chapstick!

Carter made this for a friend of his!  He is super confused about why Grace is making so many cards for school and he's not.

I also made these Love Bugs for all my Jitterbugs at school!

Are you ready for Valentine's Day?  I'm so glad a miracle happened and I am ready because I have to stay late for parent conferences at school tomorrow!  Whew!!!

valentine touches to our home

Our house has been added with some touches of red and pink and hearts in honor of Valentine's Day!

Every day in February, we put love notes in the kid's mailboxes.  They wake up excited to check the mail!

They have taken it upon themselves to tape their notes all over the house.

I hope you have a great Valentine's week with lots of love and sugar!!!

love day

once again, we celebrated our valentine's with a little-laid-back-family-fun-party.  grace and carter were excited for our special night.

we had our traditional romantic dinner of pepperoni pizza and pink lemonade.

it's romantic because it was a heart pizza...awww!

after dinner, things got a little wild and crazy with some valentine minute to win it style games.

then, we had a heart scavenger hunt with love missions on them...

...dancing...

...kisses...

...and wheel barrows?!?

oh goodness, another game.

"heart lava"

finally, we exchanged cards and gifts.  grace was so very excited to receive these sticker books!

and, carter added his new hot wheels to his quickly expanding collection!

i'll show you what john gave me as soon as i find the perfect place for it.  i'll give you a hint...i really love it!!! (that was a pretty bad hint, sorry!)  grace took this pic of me and my one and only valentine!