Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!
We made homemade Valentines this year. WE LOVED IT! I will never go back to store bought again. We had sooooo much fun searching online for ideas and I will treasure the memories of sitting for two whole days with these two sweeties making their valentines. Happy Valentines Day indeed!!!




For Clarey we made little heart flowers with suckers in the middle:
For Shea, it was Star Wars all the way, with dollar store glow sticks. So fun!

They woke up to a heart attack. Trails of hearts leading them from their beds to the kitchen, where a valentine breakfast awaited.

I did heart pancakes with a little message and "heart" eggs, I saw on pinterest. The eggs weren't as "hearty" as I wanted, but they LOVED them!!

Lunch was fun too, We had heart everything: cucumbers, red peppers, strawberries, sandwiches, pretzels, cookies and even raspberries with white chocolate chips in the middle.

And after all that fun, they got to play with Uncle Tim and Chris and I got to go on a date! Hope your V day was as fun as ours!!

Awesome after school snack

This was everything I want in a snack:
Healthy (apples, peanut butter 4 mini-marshmallows). Easy-peasy. And most of all, FUN!
They LOVED them.
Thanks Pinterest!

The Peking Acrobats

Chris and I got to take Shea on a special outing last weekend. Shea's a bit obsessed with China. In Pre-K and K, there were lots of kids in his class from China, including his best little friend and the girl he was "going to marry" :-). His class learned a lot about China, several Chinese phrases and he really fell in love. So when I saw that the Peking Acrobats were in town, I had to get tickets!

It was the most incredible thing I've. ever. seen. EVER. I CAN NOT believe what those people's bodies can do. It was insane!! And so much fun. We haven't done anything alone with Shea Shea since before Clare was born, so it was so great to just take him and do something special. We loved every second of it.

(If the Peking Acrobats ever come to where you're at RUN! and I mean run, to get tickets. It was seriously one of the coolest things I've ever seen in my life!)



He got a $5 Chinese drum that he was thrilled with. (Love the gum hanging out? :-)
Love my boys!

Saturdays

This is what we do on Saturdays around here:

We give our brother sword hair cuts



We read to our little sister in a warm patch of sunlight






We give the baby his very first sucker!!



And then he shares. Ewwww!




We LOVE to hang out together!

ONE

My beautiful boy is ONE!
He is the most joyful, happy, delightful baby of all time. He's a gift to me in my old age. :-) Happy Birthday gorgeous boy!!!

(Warning - photo overload!)

I had WAY too much fun on Pinterest and found lots of cute ideas for his partay. We settled on a Goldfish party. They are his favorite food and his name is Fionn after all. :-) Perfect.

How cute are these ribbon goldfish invites?!

I made lots of fun decorations:

Our local party store makes these fish balloons - this little guy in our party colors was sooooo adorable!
For party favors, I sewed these little orange butcher paper goldfish and filled them with goldfish! The kids loved ripping them open. :-)


The food!
Who knew you could get sixlets in bulk in your party colors? FUN!

Tuna fish sandwiches for big kids

Sprinkle covered PB & J fishies
Fish jello

Friends

Cake

I love this picture of my happy one year old angel!


Letting the ice cream soften and then scooping into muffin cups is GENIOUS! It was so easy when we were doing cake and ice cream to just take them out of the freezer and toss one on each plate. Genious I tell you!

He REALLY enjoyed his cake. :-)




Happy Birthday BABY!!