Thursday, February 18, 2010

Our Valentine's Day

We had a great Valentine's Day! We stayed after church and had a little snack and social hour with our own version of the Newlywed game that was fun for everyone. Once we got home we decided to get the house picked up as quickly as we could so we could have time to go to the movies together before it was time to make our special Valentine's dinner. We saw The Tooth Fairy and it was cute and fun and a special thing to do together.

Back in the days when we lived in Sidney we decided to make our Valentine's Day a family event. With children, it just doesn't seem easy to do something just as a couple because all those without kids are freely going and celebrating their own special day, which leaves us with no babysitting. :) Why not just make it special for everyone?

This year, the kids went shopping with me and we chose to have fillet minion, pink mashed potatoes, pink applesauce, green beans and chocolate covered strawberries. We set our table with our fanciest and picked the appropriate flowers to go with all the sweet valentine's the kids made. And don't forget, lighting is everything and we are big into setting the mood. Any time we've dimmed the lights and lit the candles in the past the kids have attempted to give us the perfect restaurant title but they must have forgotten or are just getting older...

It was a fun day and a special way for us to celebrate how much we love each other!









4 comments:

Tara said...

When did you guys turn into the cutest family ever?? Crap. I suck, I didn't do any of that awesome stuff for my kid...

heather. said...

so cute. i miss your family and all its cuteness.

Jen said...

I forgot to mention that Emma and Izzy actually created boxes for their Valentine's to go in from paper. Emma helped Izzy, of course, but they are both so creative. Aiden took his little Valentine apart to stick on the vase of flowers. I'll have to post the poem in his!

Marta said...

what fun! And when did you kids get so big and grown up! Oh my goodness! They are all 3 just adorable!