Valentine's Day

So not much has been going on around here lately.  The kids started school two weeks ago and we have settled into a nice routine there.  Valentine's day was this last week and it was such a relief to me that it isn't really a big thing here.  I happen to really love Valentine's day.  I have always had fun letting the people I love know it in a special way on that day.  But sometimes I feel like the celebration of it has gone too far. Last year, in Lily's preschool class Valentine's day was ridiculously out of control!  Lily came home with more treats on Valentine's day than she did on Halloween! I didn't realize that so much had changed since I had gone to school Valentine parties, so I'm pretty sure Lily gave out the lamest Valentines in the class last year because I was trying to keep things simple.  Well no stressing about that this year and trying to out do all the other moms (because at Lily's age that is who is really in control of these sorts of things), because they do absolutely nothing at school for Valentine's day.  And you know what?  Nobody died or anything.  My kids still had a great day and I loved not stressing about Valentines for classmates.  Lily made a nice Valentine for her teacher and we called it good.

We still had fun though doing lovey things all day.  We ate chocolate for breakfast.  What else do you do on Valentines?  It's all about the chocolate for me! And for Will!

We also went swimming after school because it was so hot!

 Will has been using the pool thermometer as a phone lately.  He is saying hello here, isn't that cute?

 Here is Lily's happy Valentine's day swimming video.  She kept doing heart cannon balls for me.

So Ava and Lily share a room and Ava is at the age where she wants the closet light left on and Lily claims she can't fall asleep with the closet light on.  So I asked Lily to come up with a good solution that would work for both her and Ava and Lily came up with this.

A sleeping mask.  She came up with this great idea a while ago, I just finally got around to making her one, on Valentine's day.  I thought it would be a nice surprise for her when she got home from school.  So I whipped out the sewing machine Cory got me for Christmas and I made these sleeping masks while Lily was at school and Will was napping.  And, of course, since Lily was getting one, Ava wanted one too.  So Ava helped me make them and she even did some sewing on her own.

 Here's an action shot.  :)

Here is a nice drawing Lily did at school on Valentines.

 Look how Lily spelled "mom" on here.  She is turning Aussie on us! :)

We made heart pizza for dinner. I know, I know, this one looks more like a triangle.  Cory already made fun of me plenty for it.

 But this one is a good heart shape.  And it was delicious!  I love having green peppers in my garden.  Australian's call them capsicum and they grow like weeds here like zucchini grows in Utah! It's great! 

 Dinner was followed by popcorn and a movie theatre.

 Here is the feature film: Batman.

We also made heart sugar cookies and heart popcorn balls.  So many heart treats!  It was a pretty good low key Valentine's day!  I hope that those I love felt that I loved them on that day and every other day of the year!  And if you are reading this, then I love you too!!!