Homemade Valentine's

By -
This year for Valentine's Day, I told Isaac I just wanted an Edible Arrangement. If you've never had one, you're missing out! We were watching tv one night, and a commercial happened to come on for them. Being six months prego, I wanted one instantly.

Isaac looked online and decided that he and Grace could make one instead of purchasing one. Not only would it be that much more special, it would cost less too!

The night before Valentine's Day, I was instructed to stay in the bedroom alone for the whole night. I secretly had a little gift I was making him as well, so that worked for me.

We started out by sending out Grace's valentines. She's been in love with Elmo lately, so we searched online for Elmo ones but couldn't find any we liked. We ended up going with the next best things: Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. She needed two boxes because she's got a lot of valentines!

Grace really likes stickers, so putting the stamps on was her favorite part:




Next, I went to start on Isaac's gift while Grace helped him make mine:



She was one busy chick that night. Soon, I needed her in the bedroom to help me finish up. I painted purple finger paint on her hands with a paint brush, and she wasn't sure what to think. After the first hand print, she wanted it off. It took a lot of work to get that second one. Then she started crying and holding her hands in front of her. She hates having stuff on her hands and wanted to wash them immediately. Daddy's gift turned out super cute anyways:


It was nice to make each other gifts this year. Valentine's Day felt extra special because we took the time to do something out of the ordinary for one another.

We decided to exchange gifts that night instead of waiting because Isaac thought his gift might not be good after a day. I'm glad we did, because all of that fruit was delicious! 

Grace enjoyed it too, but she calls all fruit "a apple". She'd keep pointing to whatever piece she wanted and say, "a appoh". Super cuuuuute!

She even got Lady and the Tramp (which she loves), a new monkey (she calls him "ahh ahh"), and a cute new Elmo shirt:



The next day, which was actually Valentine's Day, we had a mini photo shoot. I try to do this on every holiday so we have cute pictures to look back on later when she's way bigger, older, and not so squishy:





Happy Valentine's Day!!

I hope all of yours was just as special as ours.

Popular posts from this blog

Last Week...

By -
Image
...Char was sleeping so peacefully Monday morning that I didn't want to wake her up. ...she made me a pretty picture at school with chalk. ...she continued her obsession with the easel and colored (and watched Toy Story ) while waiting for Daddy to get home from work. Hooray for panties! ...it got cold and windy again, but we played outside anyways. Isaac played catch with the neighbor boys, while JJ flew the kite and Char strutted her stuff. ...the girls danced around the living room. There is an iTunes Radio station called 'Frozen Radio' that the girls are crazy about. They play random Disney songs, and we listen to it all.the.time. (After watching this a few times, I realized that Char was trying to sing "friend in" as in "You've Got a Friend In Me".) ...Grace put Charley to bed by tickling her face. ...the girls got cake pops. Yep, for breakfast. ...we got to school a few minute
Read more

Mommy-Daughter Night

By -
Image
Thursday night, Isaac went to play poker with some of Sunstate's biggest customers (and soon to be customers). Since he left around 4:30 and didn't come home until well after Grace and I were asleep, we got to have a whole mommy-daughter night! I get to spend every night with her, but having quality time with just the two of us is pretty rare. This means that nights alone with mom get to be extra special treats for both of us! When Daddy left, Grace asked "ah da da?" about one hundred times. Once she got over the fact that he was gone, we had a lot of fun. We started the night out watching Wall-E and building castles out of Mega Blocks. Then, Grace helped me unload the dishwasher while our dinner finished cooking: She's the best helper ever! We had pasta, corn, garlic bread, and cut up Beddar Cheddar brats for dinner; some of Grace's favorite things: After that it was bath time.  Once she got all clean, we played with her Dora foam soap. Grace really
Read more

Junior Ranger Day

By -
Image
Saturday was Junior Ranger Day at the Water Safety Center at Lake Mead.   Isaac's brother, Zacarias, was working and invited us to come down and check it out.   We're always up for anything that the girls might have fun at, so we got ready and headed down to the lake. It was right next to where my parents dock their boat, so it was pretty easy to find.   When we first got there, Grace was a little shy and skeptical about everything. It took her a while to warm up.   We found Uncle Zac by the fire truck and Grace hesitantly climbed inside with him:     She was a little afraid until I took her to the front of the trucks and showed her the lights. Then she thought it was "sooo cool!"       Charley was pretty curious and kept wanting to check everything out:       Grace saw Uncle's helmet and thought that was pretty neat. Then Daddy checked it out, too:       Since Charley was so curious, Daddy gave her a b
Read more