Valentines Day

A few days before V-day we did our annual mailbox decorating.

I still have some of the glitter glue stuff stuck on my table.  It will not come off.

Then for FHE on the night before the Love Day, we made cards for everyone in the family.

Yeah- that's the only pic I got of it. I was waaay too busy creating my mini-masterpieces to worry about taking pictures :)

The next morning, we woke up to cinnamon rolls that magically baked themselves (I wish.  I made them the night before),

strawberry milk,

and mailboxes full of love notes.

We just got the kiddos some little candies and a small gift.

Porter Pot got a little car, the girlies got some Soft Lips chapstick,

 

Wyatt got a Sing-A-Ma-Jig.

He loves it, but it freaks me out.

We then dug into the cinnamon rolls.

Finger-lickin' good.

*Can you tell that Porter-Pot was sick?  Poor little man.*

I had grand plans for dinner that night.  Salmon, shrimp, cheesy taters, rolls, and a chocolate cake named "Chocolate Wasted Cake".

Turns out, I started feeling a little under the weather after dropping the girls off at school.  I pushed through it and made this masterpiece:

By the time I had to pick up the girlies, I was officially SICK.

So we had McDonalds for dinner.  

Best. Mom. Ever.

Lovey-Dovey

First off, I must tell you that OP and I do not celebrate Valentines Day. Not in the "day for lovers" kind of way.

As Orrin said, "I don't need a day on the calender to tell me to love my wife."

He's a real romantic, I know.

But our objection against this commercialism-driven love day doesn't extend to our children. There is nothing wrong with a special day to celebrate familial-love, as long as we aren't buying expensive gifts.



About a month before V-Day, I got these awesomely-inexpensive mailboxes from Target's $1 section (what will I do if they ever stop making these?). I also got the sparkly stickers from there too.

Then the kiddos are set free to glitter-up their mailboxes as much as they want. And they also made mine, OP's and Wyatt's.



Piper used about 80% of the hearts on her mailbox alone.

I started a tradition a few years back of making home-made cinnamon rolls for breakfast on Valentines. This year, I was not up to it. At all.

So I made some Rhodes 35 minute Cinnamon Rolls. Awesome.



Except the fam thought they were gross. So, next year I guess I'll be rolling out the homemade kind.

Sunday night after dinner, I pulled out all of the glitter, glue, stickers, pink and red paper, feathers, heart shaped brads and everything else fun I could find and we made cards for everyone in the family to go inside (or next to) the mailboxes.

It was epically fun, but impossible to clean up (I am still cleaning up glitter).



That night we had Jessie & Chad and Hyrum & (his new fiance) Stephanie over for dinner. And I didn't take a single pic.

And I still haven't taken down all of my heart decorations. Maybe I'll get around to that today...

Will You Be My V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-E?

Thank goodness we have Target to make our V-Day go smoothly (and only for a few bucks)! And yes, I did make make these lovlies... they didn't actually turn out too well (I think the yeast has seen better days), but they're edible and made with love!

Happy Valentines Day everybody!