Valentine's Parties

We started our holiday with a party at Connor's pre school on Thursday. I am the room mom and had a fun little party planned for our sweet kids. First, I needed to take a picture of each child's face up close for our craft. These are what I got from my "sweet" child! "cheesy" and "grumpy"

I actually chose the grumpy because that is the face I see all the time.

We had yummy valentine donut holes, strawberries and blueberries, sunny D's and a red rice krispy treat. Our craft was this fun picture frame that all the moms helped the kids glue red and pink buttons on. I took the pictures, had them developed and ran back up to put them into the frames. They turned out so cute!

Here is Connor's fun class. Really sweet kids and we are so blessed to have our Connor surrounded by wonderful kids and families.

Friday I got up and took Connor to Mimi's for a fun day and I headed to pick up lunch for both the older kids teachers. I just hung out in Jack's class until party time. I love, love, love Jack's teacher, she is a wonderful young lady. And, she loves Jack, which helps when he is in trouble!!!

For Jack's party the other two room moms and I got together and planned all the parties this year. It helps to have others to bounce ideas off of. We planned an ice cream sundae bar for this party. We lined tables in the hall and had tons of toppings for our ice cream. The kids loved it! All third graders want to do it eat and talk! So, we gave them what they wanted, it is their party after all. I only got to be at Bailey's party for 10 minutes at the end, but she seemed to have a wonderful party too. After school we ran to Jack' old school to visit with his first grade teacher. We still take her treats and visit her often. She was a great influence in Jack's life and the only good thing we remember from our days at the old school! We are thrilled for Ms. Cannon she is getting married over Spring Break! Then we grabbed Connor from Mimi and ran to Chick fil a. They were having free snacks all last week and we wanted a brownie! After a yummy snack, we ran into Target and did our annual Valentine shopping for daddy. Our fun tradition we started 3 years ago. Each kid picks something out for daddy for V-Day and we make him a fun dinner too. This year Connor picked out some boxers with puppies on them, Bailey got him a new book to read, and Jack found a vintage Rolling Stones t-shirt for him. We decided to have our dinner Friday because daddy wasn't going to be home Saturday so I cooked sausage, homemade macaroni (kids fav), baked beans, strawberries and more brownies for dessert! It is one of daddy's favorite meals and he really loved everything the kids got for him...

Our after dinner entertainment in next blog!