Happy Valentine’s Day! I know I’ve got 3 little loves that are excited for the day…and were excited for yesterday because they all had their school Valentine parties on Monday. We made our Valentines again this year just like in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 and I thought they came out so cute…

Spencer’s was tricky – he really wanted a printed out dinosaur to color so I finally got him one that he colored and we cut out and glued it onto another card and then he added all the hearts! Maxwell did his all on his own, of course. I made Samantha’s. 🙂 Because Valentine’s Day is basically equal to Halloween in terms of candy consumption, we added treats to them. Spencer picked Skittles, I added gummies for Samantha’s, and Maxwell’s had Star Wars jelly beans (which I was very proud to find and had to go to 4 stores to get!)

Also, just so I remember, I did a Target gift card for the teachers.

I was the treat mom for Maxwell’s class so sent these chocolate dipped marshmallows. There is a girl in his class that can’t have gluten so this was the best gluten-free treat I could come up with. It doesn’t hurt that all my kids loooove marshmallows!

Samantha taste tested and approved!

The kids all came home with some fun loot…

I sure do love these 3 little Valentines!!!

And this big Valentine too!

Have a LOVEly day!

Happy Monday! We had a snow day here on Friday and through the weekend. Well, we actually had just a cold day on Friday with some freezing rain and sleet that started that night and turned this place into an ice wonderland for the weekend. Not much fun to play in (though the boys might disagree) but exciting nonetheless. Pics to come!

Today, the rest of Christmas day! After we had gone through the Santa surprises and opened a few gifts, we got ready for Robert’s parents and his sister’s family to come over. It turned out to be a beautiful 70 degree day so the boys were in short sleeves – their new Star Wars short sleeves that Santa brought to be exact!

And baby got one last wear out of her adorable Santa dress!

Everyone was enjoying the new toys…

Samantha sure was happy when “Baby Mah-get” finally arrived!

We had a great meal planned and the table was looking pretty if I do say so myself! I finally have some of SuSu’s china here and got to use it for the first time.

Robert cooked an excellent beef tenderloin that everyone really, really enjoyed…

We also had twice baked potatoes, broccoli salad, squash casserole from Mary Lou, green beans from Mary Beth, and rolls (that were supposed to be homemade but my dough didn’t rise. Oh well). We also had Ina Garten’s cranberry and apple cake for dessert (it’s sooo good). The boys didn’t really care for any of that but they were happy to have a big bowl of ice cream with chocolate syrup!

That’s a happy little boy!

There were more presents to open…

and plenty of fun to be had!

I’ll also add that, very sadly, this blurry selfie is literally the only photo I was in all day long. Oh well.

It was a wonderful Christmas with my three little angels!

Merry Christmas!

ps – Roll Tide!!!!