v-day!

 so i LOATH valentines day.  for SO many reasons.  the pressure it puts on ppl, the emptiness of it all. blah, blah. i dont celebrate it, and i dont want chris to do ANYTHING for me on feb 14...i WANT him to love me every day! not just 1!

anyways, now that the kids are older, i thought it would be good to start some family valentine day fun. so i cooked a special meal, and waited for daddy to get home...he came home with a KEG bag!  i knew right away what he got me.  my most, ever, favorite thing to eat.  bacon wrapped scallops with the special keg wrap. these bad boys are stoopid $....but he got them for me!  and 4 bottles of wine. hahah....so chris and i sat down to enjoy my treat...and start our first annual family v-day fun-day!

we made envelopes and put our names on them.. then i gave the kids a bunch of red hearts to write out WHY we love each other.  each person got a card from each family member.

 then we opened and read them out loud

 we laughed, and giggled, wiped eyes and loved

 even this guy!

 him too!

 and me

 it was the best idea.  the girls slept with their cards

then the kids opened their cards from nana and papa

 so fun!

 we decided that each kid can choose what THEY want to do with their 5.00. nate is saving his, e and j want to spent it at the $store...im going to take them today to spend it....i already know that joey will buy a stuffie, ellie will want candy and a stuffie. haha....ill blog more on that ha

 sat. sat. beautiful and WONDERFUL saturday!  i had the BEST, MUCH needed day away.  i slept till 11!!!!!!  then grabbed a shower and headed into town to grab some supplies, text, email and be ALONE!  FREEDOM! so much fun! the only thing that would have made it better was having my bff with me!

 look quinn!!!

 i got this!  for 10!

 score!

 then i came home around supper time. ok, i came home in time to make supper. ha.  but first i grabbed these pics of what the kids were up to

 chris made a bigger hill then made a better slide down the hill!

 check this path out!

 i came up to this view. i would have moved my car and taken another pic but my phone died!

 then i was called into the porch to look at joey antics! 

 splits on the window sill with her sis supporting her torso! 

 YIKES!!!!

we got up sun and headed to church, then to the house for a few hrs so i could get some things done and chris too....hence the blog....but we are leaving in a bit to go back to the cabin for another night! 

Posted by mel at 2:40 PM