Valentine's Day...

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day. We did here in our household. Mine started a couple of days before Valentine's Day when a package showed up for me with a beautiful box filled with candy and a teddy bear. Ryan and I don't usually do much for Valentine's Day, so it was a great surprise.

Kiara and I spent Thursday and Friday making cookies for her Valentine's party at school. We had fun making sugar cookies and iced cookies. And, they turned out much better than I thought they would! And, I think they must have been good because Kiara got off of the bus on Friday saying she had a tummy ache!

Of course, the girls got spoiled with cards and presents from grandparents, great grandparents and aunts and uncles. We gave the girls some small bags of candy with a movie. Saturday was the best present of all for me. Ryan basically took care of the girls all day so I could relax, get some things done, and get some scrapbooking done! I haven't scrapbooked in months and I miss it so much! Plus, now I have a whole new project to scrapbook now that Vera is home! I did a really nice baby book for Kiara of her first year, so now I am at a loss of what I should do for Vera. If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them. I think I will do a book of her first year at home, but am not sure yet how to organize it.

After scrapbooking and Vera was up from her nap, we headed to a pizza place that has become a favorite of ours. They had a Valentine special, a heart shaped pizza, a bottle of sparkling cider, a box of chocolates, and a stuffed animal. Of course, when Kiara heard there was a stuffed animal, we had to get it! Like we need another stuffed animal! Oh, well, it was fun.

Here are a couple of pictures of my beautiful girls...

After the pizza place the plan was to play some games at Chuck E. Cheese's. I don't know if I have ever been there on a weekend night. It was packed, but luckily by the time we got there people seemed to be starting to leave. When we go there we were surprised to see 2 of Kiara's friends. So, Kiara was able to play with her friends and that was nice because that doesn't happen enough these days.

So, we had a great Valentine's Day spending the day together as a family. Unfortunately, Kiara has a runny nose again and doesn't feel well. So, looks like we are going for round 3 in our house! Ugh!!