Valentines Love

I have to say that Valentine's Day is really so much better with kids. I guess the more love there is to go around the better, and boy have we been feel'n the love. :) I saw these cute little envelopes on this website and thought that I could throw something like that together. Each morning the kids rush to their envelope to see if there is a new love note in it. It's so fun to read them out loud for them. It starts our day off on such a positive note that I really think it has made a difference in the rest of our day. We might have to figure out how to make this a daily thing instead of just a countdown to Valentine's thing.

Zina begs all year round for pink heart cookies and Valentine's day is when they are actually in season. We made these on Monday for our family home evening treat that evening. Zina was in charge of the lesson and decided she wanted to do it on love. She talked about how we can show each other love and how Jesus showed us He loved us by dying on the cross for us so that we can be together forever. She also wanted to talk about how rainbows show us that Heavenly Father loves us. She did a great job for her first time at the lesson. She was pretty excited about getting to those pink cookies though. ;)

We ended up making the cookies for Uncle Marky's Valentine's package. Don't you just love Wilsons with the candy hearts piled high.

I thought Mark's cookies was so funny. I'm sure Elder Keeler will enjoy it. (Hopefully he can read it after they get tossed around in mail.)

Tuesday we had a Valentines Party for preschool and then today we thought we'd do it again with younger siblings and mom's. Any excuse for a party right?

The kids loved decorating their bracelets, exchanging valentines, eating cupcakes, Valentine's Bingo, and chasing each other outside.

Cute bags for their Valentine's that Kristi made. She always has the cutest ideas!

Wilson is trying to show off his bracelets. His creation is on the other arm - of course.

And maybe we are all pinked out because this afternoon the kids wanted blue play dough. I ordered up blue spaghetti with meatballs, blue heart bread, blue ice cream with sprinkles and chocolate sauce, and blue lemonade. And while the chef's whipped up my delicious meal I took a lovely nap in the sunshine.

p.s. We made heart decorations for our window the other day that we found here. Zina really enjoyed it and Wilson loved destroying the crayons for the wax.