Valentine's Day

 We were excited for Valentine's Day this year because we were having visitors! Michaels brother & family came to visit, which meant COUSINS!!!

 The girls took pixy sticks for their Valentine...we make them every year.

 My little Hallie was so adorable! I love dressing this little girl up!

Our totally awesome sister missionaries, Sister Berger and Sister Vander Does dropped by to do some service! They came and did dishes and vacuumed! They are so cute, and we love them!

Valentine's Day

My little Valentine, Hallie. She is 7 months!!!

We had to hurry our Valentine party along because I had to be at Young Women's, and Michael was out of town so I had to take all the kids...don't worry, he got me lots of Twisted Silver!!! LOVE IT!

Mallory, so cute!

She got earrings and bracelets!

Little Jillian got a cute necklace (that she has since broken...I hate buying her things), and a cute little jewelry to hold her broken jewelry.

We had Cherry 7-Up, and chili! Whenever Michael leaves we always make chili. He hates it and the rest of us love it!

We made yummy Valentine sugar cookies too and a delicious new cinnamon popcorn. LOVE!

It was a busy, crazy, fun day...minus the fact that on the way to school I got a flat tire and spent all day at the tire fix-it store!

Valentine Crafts

Here are my 2 Valentine crafts I made! The top one is a glass block from home depot that I just vinyled up. These blocks are my favorite. They turned out so cute and were SOOOO easy! The are just 4x4s painted and sanded.

Valentine's Day

We were so excited for Valentine's Day...anything to break us out of our ordinary! The girls wanted to make the big pixy sticks for their Valentine's this year. They turned out cute! Unfortunately, the box comes with 50. There are 26 in each of the girls classes, so the only way they would get one for themselves is if someone was absent...there were no absences, darn it!

(totally love my messy kitchen...it just got worse)

So, I like to make Valentine's Day something special and fun, so that includes presents, yummy food, and even better chocolates!!!

Logan was distracted even before dinner started. As soon as the girls showed him his high chair with a big present, he was done for the day!!! He turned into crazy Logan, as sometimes he does. We were going to try an wait to open presents after dinner had been eaten. Logan won (of course) and got to open right away!!! So we all had our food on our plates getting cold and watched Logan be so cute with his present!!

These look gross, but I thought it would be fun to make jello jigglers. This was my first attempt. They were kinda fun for the kids.

This looks even grosser (my camera doesn't do good inside, I'm waiting for my labor and delivery present which should be a canon rebel) I made chicken fettuccine with asparagus and lots of yummy Parmesan cheese. It was pretty tasty.This is the girls fav.

more Logan opening his present...once he found out it was a gun, he flipped out. Little boys are SO MUCH FUN!!! Especially Logan, he loves trucks and guns. How could he not being Michael's little boy. He sees his Daddy's BIG FRUCK and BIG UNS everyday!!

Little sweet Jilli got a new set of Polly's, her fav.

Mallory got some magic marbles and a crystal growing thing that I am sure will be thrown out soon. She always wants things like this!

We dipped our peanut butter eggs into balls and decorated them up. Yummy!

These videos are funny!

Individual Worth

For our personal progress activity this month we worked on passing off an Individual Worth experience. Since it is February I tried my hardest to tie it in with Valentine's Day. I really wanted the girls to decorate the mail boxes from target. So, we did the last experience, which is about gifts the Lord has given us...or talents.

I had all the parents email me a letter or list of qualities about their young women. Then I fixed it up, stamped it,and then laminated it. I thought it would be nice if the girls could put it on their magnet board or somewhere where they could see it often.
Then we decorated the cute mailboxes...the girls had tons of fun. We did them super simple..I had everything cut out and sticky taped before to help the night go smoother.

After we decorated them I had a million cut out hearts that we used to write down a talent or positive quality each girl has. To pass off the requirement each leader did it too. Then we had yummy sugar cookies that I love making at Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I love Valentine's day...it is something to look forward to after Christmas, and a boring January. We had to speak in church...so it wasn't the best day ever. We had a super busy week and were just flat out exhausted. I have to simplify my life...I need to hang my big simplify sign back up maybe! We still managed to have a fun day and eat lots of chocolate covered strawberries that were delish!

I found this darling vase at the Goodwill here. I could not pass it up.