Valentines Day

My sweethearts

The picture above is Set's first smile caught on camera. Of course, his Daddy got the first real smile. Stinker.

I found tic tacs on sale a few weeks ago and decided they would be fun to use as Valentines for my kid's classmates at their preschool. Then, I used some paper tape to cover the label. Thanks, Mandy for letting me use your leftover tape.

Then, I found this free Tic Tac Toe printable here.

Should have found the right size clear bag. Should have put staples nicely in the corners. But they still turned out pretty cute. Annette and Charlie put the heart stickers on each little box.

Someone please be my perfectionist for me (hint hint, sister) and offer to take my ideas and turn them into neatly done products. 

And last night, Isaac took me to Savoy. Isaac's mom watched Set and my mom watched A and C. A kid free night... which was quite nice and very different from our last year's family v-day dinner.

It was our first time at the restaurant. The food was amazing.

Next big occasion or celebration, I would love to go back. 

It was a nice day celebrating all the LOVE around us.

I missed having a valentine play date like we did last year with all our pals, but thankful the kids got to have a little party at school.

Happy day after Valentine's Day!

Happy Birthday sister Lauren!

I'll be posting about your birthday party sometime this weekend.

~morgan

Valentine Playdate

I was typing the title to this post when I realized it has been about a year since my first post, which was about V-day last year. Crazy. I've surprised myself by actually sticking with it. Maybe because I usually lose steam on projects and leave quite a few unfinished.  While I haven't been exactly a 'regular' blogger, I've posted often enough to document much of our year. Success! : )

Today. I was grateful. So grateful to have a 'love' filled play date with some wonderful friends this morning.

We added foam sticker letters to personalize our Target dollar section mailboxes.

Creating our homeade Valentines last night....

Until Tuesday, happy early Valentine's Day!

Valentines Day

This morning Charlie, Annette, and I went to Sunset Terrace (The Little Rock Housing Authority Community Center) to help with a Valentines Day party for the kids that live around the neighborhood. The lady who works at the LRHA, Sabra, was inspirational. She is really trying to reach out to the community and make some positive changes by putting together these types of fun/free/casual events. The kids got to madk bookmarks and valentines, and had fun playing with Charlie and Annette.
We enjoyed eating some healthy snacks and meeting some new friends on this special Valentines Day:)

While we were there, I got to do one of my favorite things...read aloud to the kids! I got to ham it up as I read one of the funny, funny Fly Guy books. It made me miss my old classroom....

It was such a nice way to spend Vday. Watching my kids have fun with kids from a different neighborhood. Hoping that Annette and Charlie will learn how much fun it is to help others.