Valentine Fun!

Since Robert wouldn't be in town for Valentines day we decided to take the kids out for a little treat. Dominic picked a giant owl sugar cookie and Elena picked a corset! ;) Ha ha ha! Every time I look at this picture that makes me laugh!

 I also got the chance to meet up with my girl Lindsay while I was out of town for work. Of course we had to have a date night including, Mexican food, mojitos and a delicious donut dessert!

Later that week Elena was all set for her Valentine Party at school - she had the outfit - (note: she will only wear sneakers 90% of the time to school - Mom, I need my tennis shoes on to run fast!)

Her party favors...

and Mommy was in charge of snacks! Check!

I got to attend her school party and it is so fun to see her interact with all her little friends and figure out who the ones I hear about often are! (Especially a boy's name that has been thrown around a-lot! Yikes!)

Her wonderful teacher! She insisted we buy her this fun balloon.

They had to unwrap Hershey kisses with socks on their hands - pretty funny! And the girls team won!

At home Elena showed off all her goodies to Dom and Grandma! Seriously when did Valentine's become Halloween part II?? Holy moly. Lucky for Dom she got a bunch of monster truck cards from the boys in her class and gave them to him - he was pumped!!

Then we got packed up for a road trip to see my bestie in Arkansas! Only 4 hours to go...wish us luck!!  

Elena's 1st school program!

Elena was so excited about her first Kindergarten school music program! They had a love theme for Valentines Day and it was so stinking adorable!! Elena also just happened to be front and center! Funny how that keeps working out at her concerts!

 

Dominic and grandma came along too! Dominic was so ridiculously loud though! You would think 15 lollipops would keep him quiet but no such luck! Geez!

 Seriously - how fast can he eat a lollipop!?

The kiddos did great and you can tell how much Elena loves it? She is so animated! :)

She did so great we went for an ice cream treat after to celebrate!!

 A closer shot of my little performer! Maybe she will have a career in show business some day! ;)

Valentine's Day {2014}

For Valentines Day this year we started off with some yummy pink heart shaped pancakes! The kids loved them!  

I was the room mom this year for Elena's class Valentines Party and she was pumped to have me and my mom there to celebrate! 

The bags for the valentines - so adorable!  

They really get into putting their valentines in the bags -

Then we did yummy snacks and a craft. I opted for this cute heart yarn craft this year --



They all seemed to really enjoy it - even the boys! It really seemed to calm them down from all the sugar they just consumed! Elena will kill me for this next picture some day but check out her "focused" face. Cracks me up!

 

 After school we had lunch and Dominic took a nap, so Elena and I got to work on some valentine cookies to decorate!

 

Then we baked them and waited for Dom to wake up to decorate them. He likes a little TV when he first wakes up and we caught him watching like this!! So silly!!

They both did a really great job decorating and loved it!

Lots of quality control too!

At first he was very careful with the sprinkles -- 

Then it went to this! Ha ha!

Tried to get a picture with them... They didn't want to stop and smile for anything!

Then Dom started dumping the bowls of sprinkles too! Sheesh - boys!

I should've know this would happen --

This is major picture overload but they were just having so much fun I couldn't stop snapping away!

Elena is getting quite good at frosting them herself!

There is that ''focused'' face again! ;)

Dominic was so focused too! Love it!

One more try at a picture -- yup that about sums it up! Elena is focused and Dominic is tasting!

I must say they turned out pretty darn good! (a little excessive on the sprinkles but hey, who doesn't love sprinkles?)

When Daddy got home from work he had flowers and a balloon for Elena - she was beyond excited!

 

and we had a little gift for each of them too!

Frozen dolls!

 

and more car cars!

Then we braved the crowds for a dinner out a Olive Garden! (I think we were a little crazy for that one but it was yummy!)

The next day Daddy and I had a date while my parents watched the kids and we went to...

The shooting range! It was a first time for both of us and really fun to get to experience that together!

We were both very nervous at first but then slowly got the hang of it. We even hit the bulls-eye a few times!

Our date concluded with sushi at one of our favorite places - Hana Café! Yummy!

That was a busy two days for sure!! Here is one more picture of my two Valentine cuties!! Love them!