Eat your heart out

I decided I love Valentine's Day - well, and most holidays. Holidays are just so much more fun with kids. I think its because kids are so easy to please. For Valentine's, anything pink, red, or heart shaped makes the ordinary cool and fun. I'm glad we have these holidays to force me to get over my procrastination of all the supermom things I wish I did all the time. So of course, I had to document our fun with lots of pics, so my kids can't say that I never did anything for them. :) We had a great weekend with lots of pink, red and hearts . . .

Friday night started with homemade heart-shaped pizzas (and can I just say I am really not good at working with pizza dough. It drives me crazy! But the boys didn't care, they thought it was great fun. And it was actually pretty yummy!)

Pink cookies for desert (ie. really easy cake mix cookies with white chocolate chips mixed in)

Valentine's Day morning: heart cutout pancakes and pink donuts that Daddy surprised us with when he got home!

Valentine's dinner: Heart-shaped meatloaf (doesn't look that great, but it was good enough), heart breadsticks, and of course, you can't do Valentine's Day without heart-shaped jello jigglers

The jello was definitely Colton's favorite - and since it kept him happy all through dinner, I gave him all he could eat, which I later regretted when he was spitting up smelly red gunk in the middle of the night.

The best part of the holiday: sharing our love with each other! I love my boys - all four of them!

You make my heart glow!

Corbin's valentines this year for his classmates and neighbor friends:

A little on love

In honor of Valentine's Day, I thought I would share a few quotes from my little loves on love.

Corbin: "Mom, all the kisses that I have given you since I was born til now, til I was five, that's how much I love you."

Corbin:"Is Pluto the farthest planet?"
Me: "pretty much"
"Well, that's how much I love you, to Pluto . . . and back." (with a little smarty smirk)

Corbin: "I love you so much, I just, I just don't know how to explain it."

Putting Cody down for nap:
"Mommy." pause. "I love you." pause. "And I love brother's legos."

Last minute Valentine idea

Cute, eh? Just in case you are still searching for something fun and creative, this is what we did last year. You can also say "You melt my heart".

It's a great way to recycle all those broken crayons you have around the house. I got this heart tin at the craft store, but I also saw that they have cool silicone ones at Wal-mart. For actual instructions, click here. If you have kids and are not familiar with this site, you should be! I love it!

Circus Circus Circus!

Yes, the boys and I ventured out again for another mommy/sons adventure. Luckily this time it was sans Colton. I think he may have been a little frightened anyway by the dark, the yelling and the, should I say, interesting performers. Corbin and Cody had a great time though. Not quite as many cool animal things as we had hoped for and Corbin did notice that there were no clowns (although there were some very interestingly dressed characters doing things that I think were supposed to be clown-like comedy...), but all in all it was super fun and not too expensive - my type of outing!

What's the circus without cotton candy!

The white tiger

The poodle lady with her pink and blue poodles that jump through hoops

This one is hard to see, but Corbin said it was his favorite. It's a guy who stacks these chairs on top of each other one at a time and then he did a handstand on the top

This spinning circle thing where he goes faster and faster and becomes sort of weightless inside.

Acrobat girl who at one point was spinning really fast by her neck.

At intermission, we opted for the face painting instead of the $10 pictures with the poodles or the $12 elephant rides.

a guy balancing a sword with fire on top on a knife sticking out of his mouth, all while climbing up a ladder. Very tricky.

You probably can't tell what this is unless you've seen it. It's two motorcylces zooming around in the metal cage thing. At one point they had three in there. This was one of the boys' favorites too.

Of course you have to have elephants at the circus. This was the big trick where one crawls under the other. I thought the elephants were cute, except when it pooped.

Our self portrait - not too bad.

Oh what do you do in the winter time

when all the world is frozen and COLD?




McDonalds for ice cream, of course!