Love Day!

We kept Valentine cards simple this year.  My friend has a photo studio in her basement and always gets such cute Valentine pictures.  We used their picture and an Air Head candy taped to the back.  It was so simple it didn’t even require any writing.  And the teachers each got a package of expo dry erase markers for their white boards.  

Mia’s Winter Wonderland Birthday party decorations and balloon banner have been up since her birthday last month.  Switch out a few snowflakes and replace them with some hearts and voila . . . looks like we’re die hard Valentine’s Day celebrators.

The kids all got a Valentine breakfast before heading out the door to school--pink waffle hearts, strawberry milk and lots of candy, cards and a little gift.

I saw a picture on instagram last night of my friend’s kids sleeping in their beds with lipstick kisses on their faces.  I loved it and decided to help Cupid with his stop at our house.  My first obstacle was finding lipstick.  I looked through Mia’s play make up and came up with nothing.  After searching through my stuff I finally found an old Mac lipstick palette.  Opened it up to see Mia had been using it for her play make up, lipstick smeared all over and mixed together.  I used the closest color to red that was in the palatte -- coral.  And started making my kissing rounds at 1:30 am.  I couldn’t stop laughing while I was kissing Jack and it woke up Ryan.  He sat up and said, “Oh hi, Mom.”  I went over and tried to give him a kiss but couldn’t stop laughing.  He got scared and asked me what I was doing.  Somehow I managed to kiss his cheek and wish him a happy Valentine’s day.  Jack almost walked out the door to school this morning with a kiss mark on his cheek.  He hadn’t even noticed it after his shower and while getting ready.  I said something about Cupid leaving his mark on his face last night.  He went and looked in the mirror, “What the crap?”.  Mia was more interested in knowing more about Cupid.  Was he a reindeer?  Did he fly into her room?  I had no idea what she was even talking about until later on when I realized there is a reindeer named “Cupid”.

I spent the afternoon in Morgan’s class, helping with her party.  Her favorite was the cookie decorating station.  She put a little bit of frosting on the cookie and the rest in her mouth.

Morgan and her amazing teacher, Mrs. M

Happy Valentine’s Day!
Hope your day is surrounded with love, family and friends.

Be Mine!

All you need is LOVE and six, cute kids to help you celebrate Valentine's Day to the fullest!  We got to celebrate all day long since the kids were out of school.  My idea of a holiday.  They had their Valentine parties last week at school and Valentine's Day was filled with lots of fun activities.   

Morgan and her aide, Miss Aubrey, at her Valentine party last week.  She loves it when I volunteer in her classroom.  I was in charge of the bowling game and she could not wait until it was her group's turn to join me.  She ran up and gave me her big monkey hug.  The one where she wraps her legs around me and hangs on to my neck while I attempt to keep my balance and not fall over because it's just that exciting when she sees her mama in her classroom.

We started off the day with pink waffles and pink milk.

I just wish the waffles stayed pink through the cooking process but they really were more pink than this picture shows. 

Gavin took the boys skiing (59 degrees and sunny!) while I got to spend the day with Hadley, Morgan, Griffin and Mia.  We went to a music class and then swimming at the rec center.

I was able to convince (force) the remaining kids to take a few pictures.  Hadley is always willing.

Mia was not excited about pictures and didn't feel like posing for me.  This was the best smile I got out of this girl.

It is next to impossible to get Griffin to look at the camera so we just rolled with it and let him look wherever he felt like looking.  He's smiling at his big sister, Hadley, in this shot.

Morgan just wanted to play with the blocks and scramble the letters.  I managed to capture this picture in between block remodelings.

Like this . . .

Happy Valentine's Day to you!

xoxo