Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!!  This was such a busy and fun day for us.  

Russell had to work on Valentine's Day so before he left for work, he left me this awesome bouquet of candy and a great card.  I love it and I love you too!

At school the kids both had Valentine parties that I got to help with.  Logan and Charlotte tagged along too so they got to enjoy the fun as well.  First we helped with a game in Emily's class.  We played "Don't Eat Cupid!"  The kids had a lot of fun picking cupid and then yelling "Don't Eat Cupid!" when someone tried to eat him.  Unfortunately all the kids were high on sugar and really crazy but it was fun anyway.  Sorry Mrs. Nielsen...

Then we headed over to Colby's class where we provided the treats for their Valentine Tea.  All of the kids dressed up in their Sunday best clothes and tried to use the best manners they could for this tea.  I thought Colby's Valentine Tea was going to be like Emily's Valentine Tea last year where the kids were paired up and it was kind of like a date and the boys treated the girls and the girls were polite and said thank you.  I told Colby about this and he was so worried about it.  He did not want to be paired up with a girl.  That morning before school he came up to me and said, "Mom I'm kind of worried about this date thing.  I don't know what to do."  I told him all he had to do was treat the girl nicely, let her hold his arm as they walked, pull out her chair and have her sit down and then get her some snacks and just be nice.  We walked through what he should do and he felt a little better.  Then when we got to school and had the Tea, it turned out that it was nothing like Emily's Tea Party and the kids in Colby's class just got to sit at their own tables and were not paired off.  You should have seen the relief on Colby's face!  He told me "Mom, you lied!  We don't have to have dates!!"  He was so happy.  What a boy!!  After the Tea, the kids handed out their Valentine's to their class and they all had a good time looking at and eating all of their treats.  

After school we took Colby to music class while Emily was at play practice.  Then when both of those things were done,  we headed over to the fire station to have a Valentine dinner with Russell.  When we got there, he was in the middle of a fire station tour with some scouts so we had to wait for a while.  That was okay though because the kids just joined in with the tour and got to see all of the fire trucks too.  They love that stuff.  We had a good time having dinner with Dad at the fire station and luckily, for the first time, a call didn't go out while we were there!  Russell enjoyed having us there and he loved the Valentine's we brought and the Heart Attack we did to his truck!

Finally we came home and got ready for bed.  Luckily the kids didn't have any homework because it would not have gotten done!  

Before the day was over, I snapped a few pictures of Charlotte in her Valentine's Day clothes.  Here are a few:

Isn't she the cutest thing ever!!!  She loved sucking on the heart sucker she got for Valentine's Day even if I wouldn't take it out of the wrapper.  Can you believe Emily used to be this small and wore these same clothes on her first Valentine's Day?  

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!