Valentine's Day

Valentine's day for us meant:
Fancy Valentine hairdo's:

Making beautiful, sparkly necklaces for our favorite Valentines (and then never giving them out because we lost them - oops).

Spending time together:

Concentrating really hard on making our Valentines (does his tongue sticking out crack you up? I love it!):

"You're one in a Minion, Valentine!"

Finishing up our Valentines for school (side note: I LOVE that they were able to make these by themselves. It almost makes up for them being too cool for our traditional "picture-of-them-holding-a-lollipop" Valentine cards):

Valentines breakfast. Complete with pink pancakes, boxes of chocolate, and love notes:

Ha! This was right when the boys woke up so it was a little bright for them. They begged me to turn off the kitchen light, but I took pictures anyway (because, you know, I'm a good mom):

Bless his heart, he tried to look awake:

This baby makes me happy:

We decided to be extra fancy for school (even though he has to wear a uniform, it's not going to put a damper on HIS sweet Valentine's Day style!):

 Baby Valentine hair! It kind of took forever, but I think it was so cute:

Basically, we just hung out together and enjoyed each other (and a whole lotta Valentine candy).

 

The next night was date night. No, no, not for me and Justin. See, every so often Justin steps out on me with another lady. A younger lady who is much prettier than I am. I know he loves and adores her (and she loves and adore him) but I'm pretty fond of her myself, so I don't mind one bit!

 

They had their "day date" to a place called The Pigeon and The Hen. It's a paint your own pottery place. For a little lady who absolutely loves doing a project, this was right up her alley:

 Justin looooves (sarcasm) when I give him the camera and ask him to take pictures, but I'm really grateful he does it anyway. Precious moments, precious moments:

Josie painted this awesome Technicolor zebra. (Not sure why it's sideways. I'll call IT and get them to fix that...eventually.)

Justin, who is officially the sweetest dad of all the dads, painted Josie this cute little jewelry box. She loves it.

 While their projects were drying, he took her for ice cream.

 Love these two so, so much!

For their evening date, they went to a fancy dinner...Red Robin. Josie got all dressed up and Justin wore purple to match her. Seeing Justin treat our daughter like this makes me love him even more than I already do. Josie is a lucky lady to have such a great dad.

Not sure what we're going to do in a few years when Sammie's old enough to understand what's happening. I suppose he'll have to have two Valentine's dates.

Here are my favorite Valentine cards:
Josie's was completely random, but it's cute because most preschool things (with their jaggedly cut edges, and randomly placed stickers) are:

 This one's from Noah. This kid. Swoon:

 And another close up of the jewelry box that Justin made Josie:

 He's kind of artistic, right!?!

 Sweet:

Valentine's Day around here was a pretty great day. I love that, for us, it's a low key, low expectation holiday. We eat a lot (okay, maybe that's normal), we make each other cards, we have heart shaped pizza, it's nice. I absolutely love these people of mine and, while I don't necessarily need a day to remind me to love them, it's nice to have that day to make it a little extra special.

 

**Off the subject - sort of: Justin gave me an iPad mini for an early birthday present (I know, right - he's the best). I took some really fun pictures with it, but can't find them to post to the blog. Anyone know how to do that? I feel that this will elevate my blogging (I know, how can it get better?? But just wait). Thanks!**