Valentine's Day

Jack and his friend Hamdoul at their class party

Doing the "Jungle Song"-pretending they are sleeping

Dancing

Andrew, Jack and Sophie

Passing out Valentine's

Ellie's class party

Jack, Ellie, Isabella and Allison

Valentine's Day dinner

New DS game

Seeing the fish for the 1st time!

Valentine's Day 2012

Cake for dad

Valentine's box

We had a nice Valentine's Day this year! For the 2nd year we have a tradition where we decorate for Dave and make him a nice dinner and cake! This year we decided (thanks to an idea from my friend Jill!) to start getting Chinese takeout for our Valentine's Dinner. Chinese is pretty much Dave's favorite food so we thought that would be a good plan. So Chinese it is from now on :) During the day the kids had their Valentine's parties. Jack's was in the morning and Ellie's in the afternoon. The morning didn't start off well---I had a flat tire!! So I was worried that Jack would miss his party but Dave rescued us and came home from work and changed the tire and we were on our way! During Jack's party they passed out their Valentine's, had a game and made a craft and had a snack. I love going to his classroom and seeing all the kids---they are so cute it makes me smile! Jack just loves it and especially his friend Hamdoul---they are a riot! After lunch we headed to Ellie's party. Jack has fun going to her class and seeing the "big kids". We played some games and had a snack! This year I chickened out on the Valentine's box and had my crafty friend Lisa help Ellie---it turned out nice--very formal but nice--almost looked like it could be used for wedding cards :) Ellie doesn't get to into making the box (she is following in my non-crafty footsteps--darn!!) so she really didn't care what it looked like--she just wanted to hold my friend Lisa's dog Tuffy the whole time!! But it turned out cute and she liked it and that's what counts! After we had our Valentine's dinner we gave the kids their gifts---a couple of games for their DS and Leapster and then...........our new pet fish!!! Ellie always begs for a dog so this was the next best thing :) So we now have a new pet in our family....Mr. Doodles--love the name! They are into it and Ellie makes sure to feed it every morning and night (even though the darn thing doesn't eat---I'm so afraid it's not going to make it!) But the kids were happy and that's what counts! So that is our Valentine's Day in a nutshell---nice and low key--just how I like it!!