♥♥ Valentine's Day ♥♥

Valentine's Day was a lot like any other day around here. Just with extra parties, and lot's of candy! I try and make holidays fun for the kids. I am sure Clint thinks I am over dramatic, but Oh, well!

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So first things first...I was so excited to do the girls hair this year! I saw this Hair-Do on a website a while ago. They turned out pretty festive!

The rest of Valentine's Day was fun. I finally got to go on a date with my husband!! (It's been a while.) We ended up at Mongolian BBQ, because the lines at all the restaurants were too busy! Well too busy for me--I am way impatient. It worked out perfectly though, because we got to go see the movie "Just Go With It". It was a cute romantic comedy. If you can stand Adam Sandler humor, I recommend it. Clint got me flowers, I bought him a box of swiss cake rolls. Then we got the kids a box of chocolates each! (Winco .88 cents) I also left them all a "love letter" telling them how much I love them! So what did the kids do yesterday?! Well they hung out with my friend, Nila. Who brought them movies, and candy! We bought them a heart shape pizza for dinner, along with heart shape paper plates.

We all had a very fun day! Happy Valentine's Everyone!! ♥

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Clint had to work this Valentine's Day. Exciting huh?! Oh well...We decided that we weren't going to do the "big to do"this year. (Mainly since we spent money buying Video games a few weeks ago! LOL!) We did sneak out last Wednesday for dinner, and some quality time. It was yummy!! ;) So far my Valentine's weekend has gone as follows: Friday-Class Parties, sugar highs, and lot's of fun! Later that evening A.J. took me to see the movie Valentine's Day. It was so funny, and full of surprises. Changed my thinking on a few of my favorite actors. *wink wink* We didn't get home until after midnight, and I was sick to my stomach from the day of junk food. Saturday-Very early in the morning I woke up still not feeling well from my food intake choices. Just as I had finally got to sleep...Tyson was at my side crying, and telling me his ear hurt. So after a night of not much sleep, I quickly got up, and got ready for my class I am taking. My poor mother had to take Tyson to the doctor, where we found out that it was indeed an ear infection. I got home around 3:00, and we spent the evening vegging. We even went for McDonald's drive thru. Shortly after all the children were asleep, and I was enjoying the Lifetime showing of Pretty Woman, Preston woke up crying. Complaining that his ear was hurting. So Sunday has gone as follows, up most of the night (being kicked in the back), babysitting, and taking care of sick boys. Thank goodness my mom is here this weekend, she has been a big help. She ended up taking Preston into the doctor for me. Which I am sure he has an ear infection. :) Fun weekend huh!?!

♥ Valentine Jars ♥

As you can tell...we haven't had anything exciting going on the past couple weeks. We've been busy, but it hasn't been that exciting. I have been taking some classes for training hours at Weber State, babysitting, looking after a lost dog (who was returned to his family--very sweet story actually)working, doing family activities, making 275 sugar cookies, and dealing with a very sick little girl! She has some sort of Viral thing. She has had a temperature around 103.9 for 5 days. There isn't anything they can do, but let it run it's course. We are just watching her fluids to be sure that she doesn't dehydrate. She hasn't been very happy though that is for sure! Along with the craziness, we have been putting together Valentine's for everyone's classes. (Approximately 100 between everyone.) Which brings me to the reason I started this post...

BABY FOOD JAR VALENTINE GIFTS!!

Another one of those recycled projects. :) I love to use baby food jars for little containers. I thought I would jazz these ones up, and fill them with heart shaped candy. They make fun little valentine's. Really easy to make too. I just traced the lid of the baby food jar on pattern paper. I used craft bond spray, to glue the paper to the lid. I filed the remanding paper off with a nail file. Then I glued the ribbon around the lid. I washed and cleaned the baby food jar, (I cleaned the lid too-- before I began) then filled them with candy. Sometimes when I wash the jar, the paper label would stick, or leave that sticky residue. I used my heating gun to melt the rest of the sticky off, it also took the printed date ink off. I think they turned out pretty fun. :)