The night before Valentine’s Day was hysterical (Ok, hysterical in retrospect because while it was happening…especially the bedtime part, it was maddening!). The boys were SO excited…it was like a mini Christmas! They knew they had a card & gift from Nana & Papa, cards from GG & GGpa (which always contain a crisp $1 bill!), goodies from mom and dad (small goodies mind you) and a fun breakfast waiting. The spent the last few hours of the day creating masterpieces of heart-filled art work then I basically had to wrestle them to sleep. They were laying in their room for over an hour, all hyped up on promises of fun and candy-to-come (they didn’t even know about Memaw and Grandpa’s cute bugs, filled goodies and hand-made cards, that awaited them after school as well). The finally went to sleep around 9 and got up…oh….at 6:15! I made them lay with me in bed until 6:30, then I gave up!

 

I took this picture before I went to bed: all the goodies lined up at “mommy restaurant” (or “daddy diner” depending on who’s doing the cooking that day!)

Check out the adorable mini lacrosse stick. Nana sent the boys build-a-bear lacrosse uniforms embroidered with our last name and their birthday numbers (9, 10 and 5) on the backs.

Some art work Aiden did before bed. He loves him some rainbows. ALBMD = Aiden, Logan, Brady, Mommy and Daddy.

Celebration at the crack of dawn!

Heart-shaped french toast and bacon (not heart shaped)

Here are pictures from the 50 fortune-cookie valentine’s we made this year. The pattern is from Martha Stewart. We put Hershey kisses inside along with a note that said “you will get a kiss on Valentine’s Day”

This was a mom-intensive project due to the several things: hot glue gun usage and the fact that I’m a perfectionist. The boys traced the circles, cut the wires and ribbons and made tags with their names on them for the back of the labels.

finished cookie

Bags stuffed, stapled, labeled and ready to go! Maybe something less time-intensive next year!

The mailbox Logan made for class (thank you Cricut and glue stick)! He did everything but the letters himself…ok…I might have sprayed it with a clear sealant while he was away Monday morning, but it was for the project’s own good…those hearts wanted to come right off!