Valentine's Fun...

Valentine's Day is almost here and we've been busy celebrating the whole month. Here's a few photos of our fun:



Our valentine flag in the snow we had a few weeks ago. For a snow day project the kids made this banner out of stuff we found in the scrapbooking box.



Last weekend, we had a heart-shaped cheese pizza from Papa Murphy's. It tasted much better than it looks in this photo!



This is our mailbox on the kitchen table where we've been writing love notes to each other all month. Lydia is really getting into this and writes about 10 each day that all say the exact same thing. I'm having to pretty much make the boys write some. They think they're getting too old for this kind of stuff.



And finally, the kids were out of school today so Lydia helped me make blueberry heart muffins for breakfast.

We (heart) Valentine's Day at our house!

Lydia's Big News...

It needs a little more wiggling!


It's out! Not the most flattering picture but it shows the missing tooth.


Thank you tooth fairy!


More exciting than the Super Bowl at our house last night--Lydia lost her first tooth! She was so excited and was up till after ten checking to make sure her tooth was still ready for the tooth fairy under her pillow! She is now 2 dollars richer and has the most precious little smile! She was off to school this morning to get her name on the class tooth chart and a little treasure box from the Nurse to keep her tooth in. The tooth fairy at our house lets the kids keep their teeth. Not sure why, since 20 years from now Mom will just probably find all their nasty teeth in their dresser drawer! The cutest part was watching Levi, who used to scream bloody murder when his teeth were pulled, telling Lydia how it's so easy and doesn't hurt or bleed at all! This was a hard tooth for me to pull--not because it wasn't ready--just because it was another reminder to me that my baby is not a baby anymore. I don't want anymore "babies", but the 3 I have are just growing up way too fast!