Happy Valentine's Day!

Hugs and kisses from our two Valentines!

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day may be a "Hallmark holiday" to some, but we used it as a great excuse to spoil the girls yesterday! They each woke up to a Valentine's teddy bear and then we started the day with heart-shaped pancakes. Ellie kept calling it our Christmas breakfast and I can only guess it was because she woke to to find a present downstairs!

The sweetest Valentines

After gymnastics, I took Ellie to the dollar store to pick out balloons for Lori and she got to get a hula hoop while we were there, which was probably her favorite thing about the day! After a little hula hoop dancing at home by Ellie and I (a video of which will NEVER appear on this blog), we took the girls for lunch at our favorite local diner.

"Why must you insist on taking me out in public like this, Mama? I'm a baby, not a doll!"

Later in the afternoon Ellie and I made Lori a special dessert, chocolate covered fruit (bananas, pineapple, and strawberries). We had a lot of fun making them and even more fun eating them after Lori's delicious spaghetti dinner!

We hope that you had a nice day with your loved ones as well! Today I hit the clearance sales so we can do it all again next year!

Valentine's Party

The girls are home with me on Fridays, but today I took them to the Valentine's Day party at school. The kids exchanged Valentine's, some of which were more elaborate and came with little goody bags. They also had lots of treats! The teachers started the kids off with big plates of fruit so by the time they passed out the sugary sweets, most kids were less interested. Ellie ate a huge plate of fruit and then just licked the frosting off her cupcake and ate a small cookie. Audrey watched all the action from the safety of my arms or her car seat! The pictures below are from yesterday and today...

Dressed in some of their Valentine's finery for school yesterday

Who wouldn't want to kiss these lips?!?!

We came home to find a Valentine's package from Aunt TT, which included sunglasses for both girls.

and this adorable headwrap!

Ellie very intent of putting sprinkles on the cupcakes and cookies for today's party!

Pucker Up!

Party at school

If somebody could just pass that plate of brownies over here, I would greatly appreciate it!