Love List

I love Charla's post idea (that she took from a friend of her's) on a Love List. In honor of the last few minutes of Valentine's Day- here is mine!

My boys- the loves of my life..nothing makes me happier!

Our house full of pets

Diet Coke

our close family

being a home owner

blog reading

falling in love

Jimmy John's

traveling to new places

Sex and the City

New York City

sweet memories

naps

Spaghetti Works

weddings

my pocket size digital camera

pretty woman

reading

planting flowers

my MOPS group

dreaming

new furniture

having a dishwasher

the sound of the birds in the morning

making a snowman

my new glasses

Barnes and Noble

the beach

wine by the bottle

pictures

snuggling with B

mascara

quiet

getting the mail

Friday nights

Cuckoo Clocks

our backyard

Blueberry Muffin Cheesecake by Scentsy

our wedding

my college degree

long trips to Target

personalized jewelry (like Lisa Leonard)

my cozy bed

pink- the color and the singer

fresh notebooks

storage tubs

having hope

glue guns

garage sales

white roses

taking classes

Valentine's Day -10

This week we did a few things to get ready for Valentine's Day. I had seen Love Bugs on several blogs, but wanted to incorporate the marble paper technique with shaving cream. I love the results you get with this!

After we did the shaving cream marbling, we painted glue around each section of the wings. The kids each had a variety of Valentine confetti to choose from to sprinkle into the glue. Next was the glitter- I just love projects with glitter! It really makes them pop! We finished the love bugs off with google eyes, heart mouth, and sparkly antenas.

**If you are not familiar with the shaving cream technique... you have been missing out! It is so much fun. We use a large baking sheet and fill it with the cheapest foam shaving cream. Next, we drop our selected colors randomly over the shaving cream with liquid food coloring. We gently swirl the colors and then lay our paper down on top face down. Tap the paper into the shaving cream, making sure that all of it gets covered. Last, scrape off the shaving cream and enjoy your beautiful marble creation!

Valentine's Party

We had our Valentine's Party on Monday ( a little late I know, but we needed to wait for a day with all our kids at daycare)

Silly Valentine Guys

The kids decorated their own bags to hold their Valentines in. We used stickers, foam stickers, markers, and stamps to make them pretty

I had seen so many cute mailboxes from the dollar bin at Target on different blogs that were decorated, but I ended up just putting some glitter initial stickers on the front and a few foam hearts on the sides. They had some Valentine surprises from me inside for their treats.

The bags behind the mailboxes were from one of the moms for the kids that she made. She always has some crafty bags for holidays for the kids.


B decorated our cake the night before. The balloons are left over from the party at preschool that one of the party planners gave me to use for our party.

Instead of candy I made brownies and cut them out with my heart cookie cutter. I frosted them with pink frosting and sprinkled them before I wrapped them in plastic for them to take home.

B ended up getting sick during the party so he was either laying in my bed or on the couch during party time.

My HOT Valentine Date

By HOT I am meaning with a fever. B ended up sick on Saturday and we did not go to the wrestling tournament to watch Daddy's team and get to see who qualified for state this next week. We enjoyed a quiet day at home and made some heart shaped pizzas for dinner together. I cut out our pepperoni and canadian bacon using my little heart shaped cutter. We also had strawberry applesauce and B drank from his Valentine cup he got at his school party.

Valentine's Day Tree

I wasn't sure how I was going to like having my "Christmas Tree" up for this long, but I am enjoying keeping it decorated for the other holidays and celebrations. When I had it decorated for New Years's, I still felt like it was too Christmas-y, but now with the Valentine's Day decorations, I do really like it. The pictures don't really do the tree justice, but every time I look at it either in the day or evening when the red lights are lit up, I like it. I have a red felt skirt with some heart material on top of that. I have two special little books and an old tin laying on top of the skirt. On the wall I have framed a pretty card I recieved last year from one of my daycare families. I love the vintage look of the card and wanted to save it. Hanging on the tree are the red lights, red glitter hearts, a jeweled tree topper, and we also stuck in a felt heart that B made last year.

Last week the kids painted some white construction paper with pink, purple, and red using a variety of brushes and sponges. On Monday we traced hearts on the back in 3 sizes and cut them out and I assembled them into 3 dimensional decorations to hang. I have seen these done on several blogs lately and wanted to give them a try. I really like how they turned out!

With all the paper scraps that were left from the pages the children painted, I hated to throw it away, the colors were so festive for the holiday. I used a red heart I had laying around that was cut out of cardstock. I cut the pieces into half way similar sizes in squares, rectangles, and triangles and we glued them onto and made a quick decoration for the door, as well as using paper that would have otherwise gone in the trash! We could have further embellished this with glitter or other decorations, but I was happy with what we had with the leftover paper.