Valentine's Day

A few days before Valentine's Day we made and decorated sugar cookies. I love sugar cookies and I love this tradition. It doesn't feel like Valentine's Day without them!

Chad was gone to Ohio for an interview for PA school (cross your fingers and say your prayers for us, please!) and so he missed out on the fun. We started the day out with stuffed animals and chocolate. We skipped out on getting Clara anything, heaven knows we have PLENTY of stuffed animals in our house!

We filled the day with things we love. The day before I made some strips of paper that said:

For breakfast, I love...

For snack, I love...

To read, I love...

etc.

The girls took turns picking out the strips and telling me what they loved. Then on Valentine's Day we did all of the things we love.

Grace chose the breakfast strip and she said cereal (the fact that she was eating cereal when she picked the strip could have influenced her). To make it a little more interesting I bought the little boxes. The girls thought they were in heaven!

Here is Clara in her Valentine outfit. Somehow I did not get a picture of the two older girls in their V Day shirts.
Another fun activity we did this holiday was the 12 Days of Valentines. We made 12 hearts and wrote on each one something we could do or say to show love for our family. For 12 days before Valentine's Day we would pull out a heart and each of us would do that thing for someone in the family. My favorites were, "Make a Valentine for them" and "Tell them something you love about them." It helped us feel the love all season long!

Hannah made butterfly sucker Valentines for her class. She had so much fun decorating them with stickers.

Of course we had to have "Heart Hair"!

For snack we had yogurt covered raisins (Grace, although she calls them white raisins), we watched Lady and the Tramp(Hannah), ate pizza for dinner(Hannah), had milkshakes to drink(Hannah), played Break the Ice(Grace), and read Cat in the Hat(Hannah). It was a full day filled with love!