El Dia del Amor y Amistad

So this may be one of the few years that Russ and I have actually gone out ON Valentine's Day.  But since his parent's invited to take us out (and for asian food, no less), I thought, "Why not!"  The only downside was that I usually make a fun dinner for the boys and do cute crafts and things, which I thought I might do on another night, but that just didn't happen.  But I did buy them a heart shaped pizza with ALL meat (which I never do) and I bought a dessert pizza (which I never do).  So I'm sure they know I love them.  Anyhow, here's our little bit of Valentine's fun:

We started out with the intent of making these hearts to give as actual valentines, to teachers, cousins, etc., but it was a little bit more time consuming than we thought and after the boys made two each - we were happily done.  Which was fine, we just decided to call them decorations (and I ended up buying store bought valentines, totally against my morals, but I survived and I'm sure their classmates could care less).  So here's the project:

A little yarn, a little corn starch glue, smoosh into cookie cutter . . .

 

 And voila! Cute little hearts.



And then both the big boys had to make "mailboxes" to receive all the valentines from their friends at school.  We looked at bunches of different ideas online and they picked out their favs.  I pulled out a bunch of old scapbooking stuff and I let the boys pretty much do them on their own.  I think they turned out pretty cute . . .

Along with his "love boat", Corbin wanted to show his little "Tuck-In Pet" he got from mom too.  Surprisingly, they all LOVED these little stuffed pets.  It makes me smile.  They will be good daddies some day.

Cody chose the monster one.  Quite fitting, I think. (at least he's a sweet one)

(This picture was Cody's idea :)

This was Cody's first time exchanging valentines and he was very convinced that all the girls must love him because they gave him all these valentines.  I said, "Maybe its just because they're your friends" and he said "or maybe it's because they love me".

I love these boys!