Valentine's Day 2016

Ahhhh, Valentine's Day!  The biggest Hallmark holiday of them all.  I love it for my girls...we have so much fun working on their Valentine's cards!  Liv didn't want to do sunglasses again this year, so we did silly putty lips!  Sydney wanted to do the glasses this year, and we found some cheapies from Target!  I loved the way the pictures turned out!

The girls made bath boxes for their teachers and each of their classes gave their teacher a "heart attack!"  The kids all wrote something sweet about their teacher on a heart, and we put them on a cute poster board!  Both teachers were so excited to read what the kiddos had written!

The most popular treat given out in Sydney's class was Fun Dip!  She made out like a bandit!

Poppy played in a shoot-out and came in second place!  We sure were proud of him!

The girls got spoiled by their Nana and by me for Valentine's Day!  Can't help it...I'm a sucker for these little blondes.

Over the course of February, I added a heart with a compliment written on it to their door.  I missed a few days, but I think they got a kick out of reading them.  Liv thought this one was pretty funny!

Liv loved her heart notes so much that she made me one!  I'm keeping this one forever and a lot of more F's!

For the actual Valentine's Day morning, we tried to go somewhere new for brunch.  Welllll, that didn't quite pan out the way we thought it would.  It wasn't quite a kid friendly restaurant, and instead of celebrating Valentine's Day, they were celebrating Mardi Gras, but we all ate well, and the girls had fun looking around!

Hope you all had a fantastic Valentine's Day!

Thanksgiving Weekend 2015

I can't believe that tomorrow is December 1st!  Holy smokes!  I figure I better post about Thanksgiving before Christmas rolls in.  {But, didn't I just post about Halloween?  Probably!}

Both girls had special lunches at their respective schools at the same time.  Oh how I wish I could be in two places at once, but since I couldn't, it was nice to have other moms send me pictures of what I was missing out on.  I chose to go to Sydney's Thanksgiving lunch and it was so cute.  She loved her little turkey outfit and did the craziest turkey dance for all of her classmates.  Liv was having a healthy luncheon, and I think her favorite was the cookie! :)

➹ Look at that colorful feast! ➹

➹ She lost her tooth the night before! ➹

I took the girls to the playground after school to burn off some energy....and some calories for what was to come over the next couple of days. :)

For the second Thanksgiving in a row, we decorated gingerbread houses with Sheri and Riley.  It's such a fun tradition and we were so amazed at how much more time they spent decorating this year than last year!  {Wouldn't it be nice to show the finished product?  Whoops!}

We spent Thanksgiving evening with our cousins, and ohmyword, did the girls have so much fun with their cousin Ziggy.  I wish he lived closer because the girls just loved him.

On Friday, Uncle Rhino took the girls to see the Peanuts movie again so I could get some packing done.  

My mom promised Liv that if she lost her tooth before Thanksgiving, she would take her to the mall {35 minutes away} that has the carousel.   I decided to take a break from packing and we made it a little girls outing.  

The girls got their picture taken with Santa, but I'm going to wait until December to post that! :)  

And, to wrap up our Thanksgiving weekend, we took Liv's friend, Nathan, to see The Good Dinosaur. Apparently, they had planned on going together and she kept telling everyone that she was going with him, so I sort of had to make it happen!  They were so cute together, and the movie was adorable and sweet and heart-wrenching.  At one point, Sydney started crying and said, "He misses his family.  This movie is so sad!" 

Aannnnndddd, 25 pictures later, you are caught up on our Thanksgiving weekend!  Hope yours was just as fun!

An Alice in Wonderland Halloween

If you know us at all, you will know that this Mama Loves a Theme!  We have dressed in theme for the last 4 years and it is just way too much fun.  This year, with Poppa Peter in town, we even got to include him in the theme.

Olivia was Alice last year for her fairy tale night, so we new that we would be doing an Alice theme this Halloween.  Thanks to my friend Sheri, even I had a pretty cute costume!   We had such a fun time and got so many compliments on our costumes.

I thought we would dress up again and have someone get a picture of ALL of us together, but sadly that didn't happen.  And, I wish I had a picture of my parents because they were dressed up too!  My mom was a witch and she scared the %*^$ out of Sydney!  And, my dad dressed as a pirate!  Such a fun night -- extra fun since it was a Saturday!