We had Family Home Evening on Sunday night and spent the majority of the time making Valentines for grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. The kids had so much fun creating their own cards, and boy, did they get creative! They made some really nice cards, and we sent them out on Monday morning.
The night before Valentine's day, I put out some candy hearts filled with lots of yummy chocolates at the breakfast table for each of the children. Each one of them ended up eating all the candy in one sitting and by the end of the day I think it resulted in sugar-bouncing kiddos -- but they also ate a bunch of junk at their Valentine's parties at school so I'm sure that also had something to do with my sugar-crazed kids. Grandma Williams sent the children a Valentine's package with cards for each of us (and $5 in each card for the kids), the movie "Ratatouille", and a Valentine door banner. It was so sweet of her to remember us on Valentine's Day. The kids were so excited to get such great stuff this year.
After school, we had a special family Valentines dinner in which all of our food was heart-shaped. The kids had fun helping me. Then we played some Valentines games and watched "The Princess Bride" together. It was a fun evening, but also a school night, so they couldn't be up very late.
Joshua brought me home a dozen roses after work. As much as I LOVE red roses (they are my very absolute favorite!), I always tell him not to buy them for me because they die after a week and it seems like a waste of money in the end. But he said since he had avoided buying them for years, I deserved to get them this year. It was very thoughful. We are so excited to finally have a babysitter in our household -- Spencer is almost 12! -- so after the kids went to bed, he watched over the house while Joshua took me to dinner at "BD's Mongolian BBQ". We also saw the movie "Definitely, Maybe". Josh would've rather seen the movie "Jumper" which also opened in the theaters on V-day, but he was very thoughtful to let me see the 'romantic one' instead. What a sweet thoughtful hubby I had this year for Valentine's Day!
Hope you all had a nice one too!
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
Finding their Valentine surprises
Opening a present from Grandma Williams
It's the movie "Ratatouille" from Grandpa and Grandma Williams
Playing Valentine's Day games
Logan picks up his candy hearts to throw again
Jessica's turn
Cute boys!
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