Love at home

Just thought I would share a little bit of the love we've had around our house this month! At the beginning of the month we made a paper heart chain to count down the days to Valentines' day and hung it on the little shelf I have in our entry. Here it is on day 8:

I also added some paper hearts we made to this bowl I have on the trunk in the front room

And a little love garland to greet those coming in

We did marble painting one Sunday evening early in the month. Put paper in a plastic tub/bin with some different colors of paint and let the kids roll it around. I used rubber bouncy balls and tried to make it a game by putting two in the same tub and having AJ and D hold different ends of the bin and have them try and avoiding their balls touching but it didn't really work. . .

After the papers dried we cut them up to make cards for writing notes to each other. We had made felt envelopes the first FHE of the month using this tutorial from the Crafty Chicks. They turned out super cute but we did iron on their names, so for privacy purposes I'm not showing them.

On Valentine's day my sweetheart brought home flowers. He actually brought me home an arrangement he put together himself on Friday while the florist was taking his order. Then he brought me another on V-day. He wanted to incorporate blue into both since it is my main decor color and probably favorite color over all (although I have so many). Can you guess which one he did and which one he had the florist do? I like the one he came up with better even if it's more patriotic than 'tinesy.

I planned a candlelight dinner for our family to have together. Here D is contemplating the set-up, while I am putting together the food.

Here it is right before everyone got home

I made crepes with my pizelle iron. The iron made them super quick and easy and so pretty!

I made chicken salad and a ham spread for the filling and did a veggie tray to go along. I am all about simple! I have learned that the kids usually enjoy simple better anyway and I am a lot less stressed which make everyone happier!

Of course D was totally fascinated by the candles and had to go around the table and blow them all out

At first AP was mad that D was blowing out all of the candles, but after being told to let it go (a couple of times) he decided to join him

I got red and white sparlking grape juice to go with our meal and the kids loved it!

Well D didn't enjoy the kick so much. . .

but he loved the bubbles!

I found these cute baskets and filled them with a few goodies for each of the kids

Including a webkinz for each of them

Then for dessert we had crepes filled with lemon curd and topped with berries and whipped cream. So yummy! We finished off the night with lesson from the FHE manual on love. I will try and include more on that in a follow up post!