These two cuties were super excited to celebrate Valentine's Day at school on Friday. Hudson and his bowties...swoon!
A little something to love on our teachers...
{free printable by A Night Owl here}
Every holiday we try to love on a few extra people at our school. For Valentine's Day we chose our security guard and janitorial staff and made them a valentine "love mix"!
{free printable by eighteen25 here}
Love in a jar!
Grace and Hudson's teacher, Mrs. L, has an August birthday and this past year it fell on the first day of school. That's always such a crazy day that we decided to surprise her by celebrating her 1/2 birthday! She had no idea - yay!! We pulled it off!
We made these fun valentines for the littles to share with their friends...
{free printable by The TomKat Studio here}
I wanted to go with the heart sunnies but waited too late to order online and when I priced them locally x48 decided the star-shaped funny glasses were just fine - ha!
{Michaels, 12-pack for $3 if you're interested!}
The Disco Kids loved them! It was a wild zoo in their room with all the kids passing out their valentines that we didn't get a pic with Miss D - boo!
Grace wanted to share a little extra valentine with Savannah and Leia...a funny looking donut lipgloss and googly-eyed fake nails we found during a recent trip to Michaels...too cute!
In the Whale Tank they had activities all day long, rather than having a concentrated party - super fun for the kiddos, but sad for the parents since we don't get to see them having all the fun - boo! They decorated these cute valentine mailBAGS to take their treats home...
Hudson giving Ms. V her s'mores jar!
Love the cute Love Bug hats! Leslie made the yummy popcorn snack and the Whales gobbled it up!
And good thing we had such a fun Friday, because Saturday morning Hudson started not feeling well and poor thing is coughing his little head off as we speak - noooo! The Mr. and I will have to have a belated v-day celebration when we can get everyone to stay H E A L T H Y for longer than a couple of days at a time!! Go away cooties!
We always end up giving the littles their valentine treats at the beginning of February so they can enjoy the treats all month long, especially the valentine-themed jammies!
Every year I pull out the same "buckets 'o love" and just fill them up with some fun stuff.
Hudson has been looking like Huckleberry Finn in his pjs lately - the boy has GROWN a lot! And Grace is all about the girly nightgowns and anything pink, so pajamas were an obvious choice.
I try to balance out a couple of things they need like pjs and undies (but make them fun in v-day colors) and a few other special treats like glittery shoes and of course, Legos! Lance snuck around while we were at the AG store and bought Grace an adorable valentine outfit for her new AG doll Grace - such a special treat!
Hudson said, "Underwear??" "That's so weird!" Boys - ha!
They always look so cute to me with their eyes closed trying so hard to wait until I say, "GO!"
I love how excited they get!
This look. He kills me! Straight love arrows to my heart!!
He was actually talking about how silly that little face was way at the bottom of the Lego cup.
When we went to Legoland a couple of weekends ago, Lance distracted Hudson outside while Grace and I did a little sneaky shopping. She filled up this cup for him from their Lego wall. Love this idea! He loves to make his own creations, just as much as put together the pre-packaged Legos.
Our resident princess!
Glitter is her love language.
And this is before they consumed ANY sugar - oh boy!
She is all about fashion lately. Definitely has a big opinion about what she likes and doesn't like. So finding stuff we both like is beginning to be a big compromise. She picked this adorable shirt over a pink/red dress so I knew it was a keeper!
Isn't it sweet? My friends Angel & Amy have some adorable valentine shirts and dolls in their etsy shop {TaDa! Creations} and even more cute stuff like bunting pillows in their IG store
(@ tadacreations)! Go check them out!
Happy {early} Valentine's Day from the Love Squad!!
Because it's February 1st and my girl is finally, FINALLY feeling better!
I've never been so happy to see a new month before!
Let the pink + red + hearts everywhere explosion begin!
Some days are just full of unexpected surprises. I dropped the littles off at school one day last week and I was missing them something fierce. I worry about the world they are growing up in and the things they will face. Some days I wish I could just keep them by my side all.day.long!! But then I started lifting my eyes up to the beauty all around me and it just turned my whole day around. I think we all need reminders from time to time.
{And I'm not sure what it is about that funny looking mustache on Hudson - it's just a silly phone shadow, but maybe God has a funny sense of humor, after all?!?}
Like finding funny pictures you didn't know your daughter took while you tried to snatch the phone from her, but that make you glad to see yourself through her eyes...
Like a quiet morning to plan out your week before going 90 to nothing...
Like an unexpected invitation for lunch on a cold, rainy day...yes, please!
So yummy! Thanks, Noonie!
Like finding a super fun surprise in the mail from a friend just because...
Thank you, Melissa! I love, love, love my new heart garland!
Like wearing the earrings your daughter picked out for you "Pink goes with everything, Mama!" even though they don't match your outfit that day but then catching a reflection of yourself in the mirror and remembering her sweet smile as you switched them out that morning..
Like hearing belly giggles from your littles because they can't believe you put your shoes where??! And now they each want to take a turn putting their shoes up there...
It's the little things that make up the most beautiful moments in our days. We decided to spread a little cheer with some early morning deliveries on our day off from school on Monday...
Because some days delivering a little dollop of homemade yumminess is what it's all about!
What about you? What makes your heart sing?
Go out and do it!
