Valentines

The morning of Valentines had so much excitement. 

The kids got up to a scrambled egg and heart shaped bacon breakfast. 

{B} and I made this little hello kitty mailbox to hold all of her valentines. 

Ry and I are trying so hard to get completely out of debt. 

We decided to keep our Valentine gifts and date very simple this year. 

A couple of years ago I bought this recipe board from Goodwill for 2 bucks. 

I didn't know what I was getting it for, but it's been in my stash for a bit now. 

I saw this cute photo idea on pintrest where you put lipstick on and kiss your baby all over. 

I thought it was adorable and decided to turn it into a cute Valentine for the family. 

I painted the board added paper and the 8X10 Photo. 

Then I embellished it up. 

 It was fun because I had all the supplies on hand. 

 I only had to pay for the pix. 

Then I filled up these little boxes (that were in my Valentines Day stash)

with hersheys hugs and kisses. 

I printed some wallets up as well and made a simple card for each of the kids. 

The back said "Lots of hugs and kisses from me to you" 

 It was a big hit and EVERYONE loved it!!!   

For dinner we had strawberries and honey dew shaped like hearts. 

 I shaped the chicken pillows to look like hearts. 

 We all enjoyed some "love potion" red Cherry 7Up with a fun label

Ry was in charge of our date night. 

He took me to my favorite Mexican Restaurant Tia Rosa's

Then we went to Walmart.  Sounds exciting doesn't it.  hahaha. 

Actually it was. 

As I said we are on a very tight budget

and didn't want to spend much on Entertainment. 

There were some grocery and neccesity things that we needed. 

But Ry being true to who he is made is so much fun. 

He made the list of everything we needed. 

Next he wrote clues for me and sent me on

a scavenger hunt for those things. 

 It was such a simple date but seriously one of my favorites. 

I haven't had that much fun in a LOOOOONG time

I'm so blessed to be married to my best friend and someone who

can always lift me up. 

I absolutely adore my boy!!! 

{Ky was a little camera happy and to be honest I LOVE it. 

He got some fun photos of us before we went out} 



One year older and wizer too!

Hard to believe it, but our little {B} is 6 years old now. 

 Since it was a school day we held of on gifts til after school/work, but there were two gifts she needed to open before school. 

She was excited to open her birthday outfit from mom and dad.  Hello Kitty cupcake shirt and cute little jeans from mom and dad. 

She also got to open her gift from baby sister.  New cupcake earings. 

She was soooooo cute and super adorable.   

Luckily Daddy only had off-duty work so he was home the same the kids were done with school. 

 {B} opened all her family gifts and LOVED them all. 

 For her dinner meal she picked Macaroni and Cheese, with oranges and carrots. 

I always let the kids pick and thats what she wanted.  haha, that's easy enough. 

 After dinner we had cake and ice cream.  It was a good day. 

 

{B} is at such a fun age. 

I love, love LOVE listening to her read. 

She has mastered her sight words and is awesome at sounding out the others.  She is getting so good. 

She loves all things hello kitty and riding her bike. She still LOVES dance class.  She has become quite the tumbler and is amazing at doing head stands.  :)   I am so glad she is a part of our family. What a joy it is to be her Mommy. 

Snow White Birthday party

Crazy to believe it, but our little Princess is going to be 6 this week.  

We decided to have a Snow White party since she has been 

smitten with a young newlywed couple from our ward 

that she believes is the real Snow White and Prince Charming.  

My friend Janell let me come to her house and get pictures for the invite at the well in front of her home. 

I got so many comments on the the invite.  

It was a huge hit.  

She had fun posing for it.  

  Once the girls arrived they each colored a bag to hold all there prizes for the games

We did a pass the poison apple game (hot potato style) 

Once they were out, they went to the princess bed.  They rolled a dice and Prince Charming kissed them awake with the number they rolled.  (candy kisses of course)  The girls LOVED this game and asked to play it again after the party.  haha  

Snow White blew bubble for the girls to catch 

Each girl got to take their own bubbles home.  

Snow White brought diamond rings for each of the girls from the dwarfs.  

Birthday girl got a diamond necklace from the dwarfs and a neat Princess book with play mat and princess figurines .  It was magical.  

We had this throne spot set up for Snow White and {B} to read to the guest.  

Snow read 

and {B} got to push the button that went with the story.  

The guest all seemed to enjoy the story.  

At the end of the book there was a clue for a treasure that was hidden.  

The girls had to find all seven dwarfs (fisher price dwarf toys)  with the next hidden clue.  

Once they found the treasure they brought it back to Snow.  

Then we opened presents.  

As each girl gave {b} her gift, they got to pick a prize out of the treasure box.  

Next we did cake and ice cream.  

We had poison apple cupcakes.  

This little sweetheart was a gem the whole party. 

 She sat right in the middle of things and loved all of the excitement.  

We had a wishing well that the girls got to throw pennies in as they gave {B} a birthday wish.  

We also did a fish pond and bean bag toss game. 

I had so much fun throwing the party for {B} and all of her sweet little friends.  

I sure do love my little Princess.  

Happy Birthday, Sweetie!!!  

What a day

Yesterday was one of those days that as a mom I wish I could have just bottled it up to cherish forever.  

I was able to witness our little baby literally discover the world, one noise at a time.  

We got up early yesterday and headed over to Dr. Fucci's office.  

Little Love's hearing aides were in and it was time to try them out.  

I couldn't believe how teeny tiny they are.  

 She was so sweet and patient while the doctor got the tubing cut to the right size.

 I was told she would probably be cranky and constantly pull at her ears.  That it can take a while for babies to keep the hearing aides on and not pull on them.  {A} has not touched them and it is obvious she can hear things more.

 The top left picture above is the cute look she made ALL.DAY.LONG.  Every time she discovered a new sound.  She would freeze and listen for a second and them smile real big.

{K} sang karaoke to her and she loved every minute of it.
I made it a point to just focus on the baby and let all the to do's wait.  I am so glad I did.  It was such a tender feeling to sing to her and watch her light up. I think I sang her every primary song and hymn I know.
I adore this little girl and still can't believe she is mine.  I am so thankful for the day and age that we live it.