Showing posts with label be my valentine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label be my valentine. Show all posts

2.17.2013

Valentine's Day Party


Last Thursday I attended Aston's Valentine's day school party. Such a fun bunch of kindergarteners. They enjoyed some crafting creating hearts using twine and glue. But I must say the bowling game was a hit after cookie treats! 



A little prayer before snacks, as always
 

Yummy heart cookies!
 

Valentine's day bowling tournament!

More crafting!
 
 
 
 
 
 

Aston striking a silly pose! 
 

Valentine's day goody bags are just as fun and exciting as Christmas loot bags! 

A sweet Valentine's gift from the little guy. With pink glitter too :)
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2.14.2013

Our Valentine's

We normally don't have big plans for valentine's day. Up until we had Aston, we'd go out to dinner avoiding valentine's day but opting to dine out a few days later. So tonight, it's dinner at home and sharing desserts. 

But aston and I had been busy preparing for his valentine's day party at school. I ordered stickers to go on his sweet treat packages (finger skateboards and sports erasers - ha! - boymom for sure) and last night we finished off writing valentines cards to 13 friends for school. Poor thing mastered drawing hearts and writing his name, such a pro! 

Later, I'd be heading to his valentines party and snap pics for his classroom. Thankful that I can spend that special day with him!

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Can't resist wrapping his teachers a couple of sweet valentines gifts! 

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And we received a lovely card from my parents this morning! 

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HOPING YOU HAVE THE SWEETEST DAY TODAY, friends! 


2.20.2012

Post-Valentine Report

It was a lovely time with just the three of us spending Valentine's day together. I cooked a simple Valentine's dinner meal and we hang out together afterwards. Earlier that day, Aston had a Valentine's party at school and boy, did he take home lots of goodies from his friends. It was like christmas all over again! Too bad, I forgot to take pictures of it.

Here's the sweet bookmark gift he gave us for Valentine's day from school with his photos on it. So cute!

Bookmark Vday gift for mom & dad


I got an acrylic photo (photo by my niece Ailynne) block for the husband from me and the little guy ordered from Erin Condren and it was just a precious gift. He loved it! 

Picture block


This were the texts on the back that you can customize. It was just the perfect Valentine's gift! 

Picture block


For me, Ben got me a whole new workout wardrobe from Lululemon! Loved sweating out in style! LOL!  
I hope you all had a wonderful hearts week! 



2.13.2012

little valentine's

the weekend was a quiet one. it was a cold weekend and after church and brunch, the little guy and i spent some time preparing his school valentine's treats for his buddies. 

he is bigtime into lego star wars lately and it was one of those days that a store bought lego star wars treat was just the perfect valentine's for his little friends. i am glad that he is willing to share that obsession with them and is just ecstatic to hand them out. we received strict intructions from his teachers that they themselves need to write their names and their classmates' names on the cards so he spent a great deal of time perfecting the scribbles. 

of course, i was not about to give up my semi-crafty skills and  helped out on the simple packaging for it.  check out the little guy's handwriting below. i think more practice is in order for him during the summer in preparation for kindergarten! 

Little Valentine's

for the easy bags to hold the stickers and cards, here are the supplies :

smallest sized ziploc
craft scissors
card stock paper
glue

all i did was cutout the patterned paper (i used a polkadot red & white one - not too girly but still perfect for valentine's) just enough to fit as a favor topper to dress up the package. i trimmed the edges using a pretty craft scissor for an added design touch. finally, i glued them using my trusty tombow glue.

Packaging supplies

you can kick it up a notch and stamp a valentine-themed design (with the help of the little one) on the favor paper topper if you are using a plain colored cardstock. but since we are using a patterned one here, i left that out and just trimmed the edges with a fancy craft scissor. 

Ready to go!

......and here are the valentine's treats all ready to be handed out this tuesday! 



{photo apps used were pixlromatic and phonto via iPhone} 


2.21.2011

Post-Valentine Report

Last Monday, I was one of the moms helping out for Aston's Valentine's lunch party and we all had a lovely time. Here are a few pictures. 

Before lunch, in their prayer position

Valentine's school party

Chatting and eating

School valentines party

A fun home project we get to enjoy working on. Aston did the honors of putting on the stickers of stuff he loves and I arranged the family photos. This was then posted on their classroom wall

Aston loves...

Their treat bags lined up on the wall so they could each fall in line and drop their goodies in their friends' bags

School goodies bag

I totally forgot to snap a photo of his decorated mini-gable boxes filled with truffles for his classmates. So, this will do


At the end of the day, we had a great time going over his numerous cards and goodies and it's like halloween in February with the amount of treats he took home! 


1.17.2011

Valentine's Day Plans



Ever since we've had the baby, we spent valentine's day at home. I predictably would grill some steak and asparagus for dinner and serve a store-bought dessert. Recently, we'd try to go out as a family of three the weekend before or after valentine's day. It's less hectic that way. 

Since my parents are here, I think this year we'll do something different. Have a hearty dinner with the family on Feb. 14th and do something special for the two of us at a later date. Maybe catch a romantic comedy movie, stay out late for a long uninterrupted dinner and sip coffee at a local cafe and share a dessert.  

What are your plans this Feb 14th?