Valentine's Day 2015

We had so much fun celebrating Valentine's Day with the girls this year! The only bummer was that Shelby had a little cold/virus that she came down with in the middle of the week. Thankfully, Shelby's school doesn't do parties, so she didn't miss out on anything by not being able to attend school. The school hangs a Valentine bag for each child/teacher on the fence posts outside the garden for parents to help their child distribute Valentines at drop-off in the morning, then the kids can take their bags home after school. It was such a blessing that the bags were left outside, so even though Shelby didn't go to school on the day of the Valentine exchange, I was able to take her up there to pass out her Valentines & pick up her goodies without sharing any germs. ;)

Passing out Valentines

Shelby had the BEST time reading the Valenties from each of her classmates!

Ring Pop :)

On Friday morning, Shelby insisted we needed to make Valentine posters to adorn the front door for Daddy. Apparently, hand-making Valentines for 16 classmates & 6 teachers wasn't enough for her, ha!! ;)

I wish I had taken a picture of all of her "posters" on the front door before we took them down,
she did such a good job on them!!

Derek posing with his cookie cake that we got him :)

Since Valentine's Day was Saturday morning, I had ordered some balloons earlier in the week for Derek to pick up on his way home from Friday night. The plan was for him to leave the balloons in his truck until the girls went to bed that night, and then we'd bring them inside for them to wake up to in the morning for Valentine's Day. Their other surprise for Valentine's Day was going to be a trip to Build-A-Bear, so we decided not to get them any other little goodies or gifts. After we got the girls in bed, I told Derek to bring the balloons in while I jumped in the shower. When I got out of the shower, this is what I saw set up in the kitchen:

Apparently this is what "no other gifts" looks like to Derek. ;)  He definitely spoiled all three of us! Flowers & chocolate covered strawberries for Mommy along with Frozen jelly beans & princess chocolates for both girls! He is teaching them how they should be treated one day! :)

After breakfast on Saturday morning, we headed to Build-A-Bear! We were so excited! We'd taken Shelby into the store a couple of times, so she knew what the concept was but this was going to be her first time making a bear. We decided to just let Shelby make a bear b/c Hadley is still a little young to totally appreciate the process. ;)

There was no indecision on her part, she knew she wanted this bear as soon as she saw it.
We tried to show her other options to make sure she was satisified with her choice, but she
was having none of it. Hopefully this means she hasn't inherited the indecisive gene from
her Mommy & Grammy. ;)

This is the only other picture I have from the process b/c I took Hadley out to the playground while Shelby
built her bear. Shelby had so much fun building her bear with Daddy..she told us all about giving her a heartbeat,
brushing her, bathing her, the whole nine yards! My favorite part is she named the bear Rapunzel Lisa Smith. Love
that the bear had to have a middle & last name, too! ;)

Literally running with excitement out of the store to show Mommy & Sissy her new bear :)

After Build-A-Bear and some more time on the playground, we walked over to Grimaldi's for lunch. We figured that would be a nice but quick place for lunch since it's just pizza. Of course, it was anything but quick b/c we had a terrible server. I'm pretty sure we provided some very effective birth control for the young couple eating lunch at the table next to us. ;)

After our eventful lunch, we all came home for naps before an evening run & playtime! Here are Derek & his two little Valentines walking home from the plaground. This picture melts my heart, love these three to pieces!

Hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day, too!!