Trev's Grandma Lighten (grandma England) passed away. So he and his brothers, Rich and Dan, flew over there to be at the funeral services. It just so happened to be the same week as Valentine's, our 13th anniversary, and Morgan's 11th birthday.
That week is busy in our house! :)
But don't worry, he made sure to surprise me with gorgeous roses and my favorite Red Velvet Baby Bundt cake - thanks to his personal delivery boy, our nephew Lawson. :)
We stilled missed him a lot - plus I was also 36 weeks pregnant - but the week went just fine and thanks to Voxer we got to talk every day.
Even though my honey was gone, I was still surrounded by my little sweethearts and so we celebrated!
First came the school parties, personalized Valentine's, and treat boxes.
All the school hoopla took place on Friday the 13th (creepy?) since Heart Day fell on a Saturday this year.
I usually help with the school parties and this year I was in Jake's class. I was in charge of the games. The biggest hit was Marshmallow Toss. Marshmallows everywhere but super fun! :)
Here is the card one girl from his class gave him.
Wow. That's real love right there.
When I arrived at his classroom to help with the party, this little girl came up to me, asked if I was Jake's mom, and then informed me she would be marrying him someday!
Good thing she was darling. Just a little too aggressive. Jake was NOT amused. :)
Back to the celebrating...
In preparation for this day, Morgan had a cute friend come over and they did what Morgan loves to do best...BAKE!
She gave these delicious little ladies out to her teachers and closest friends. Oh how she loves this kind of thing!
Then on the ACTUAL Valentine's we had a little celebration of our own.
It started with my treat to them...a LOVE-ly Berries and Cream Waffle breakfast! While I got the food ready, the kids wrote down things they love about each person in our family - which they read aloud as we ate.
Then we did what EVERY kid wants to do on a holiday...SATURDAY JOBS!!!
Oh. Ummmm. Yeah. They had to get done and I was FOR SURE not doing them myself. :)
So I tried to make it fun.
I had a bunch of Valentine's games and the deal was that they had to do a job. When they were all done with one job we would play a Valentine's game.
Then they would do another job...play another game...and so on.
It worked like a CHARM! They were ASKING for more jobs to do!!
It is truly magical what the promise of a few candy hearts can do...
The absolute favorite game however, was the exploding Heart Peep!
It's pretty simple really. You just take a Peep. Put it on a plate. Put it in the microwave and set the timer for 30 seconds.
That thing will blow up a like a balloon!
The laughs and squeals of joy from your children will be deafening.
And they will keep asking for more Peeps to explode!
Note: They don't ACTUALLY explode. Just get really big...so no big gooey mess to clean-up in the microwave. I would not have been on board otherwise.
It was truly super fun to watch them get so excited.
I can't remember the rest of the day but I think we just hung out after that.
It was different than other years. I missed my Valentine. But I sure had fun with the other ones.
And we all felt loved by each other. So that is really what matters most.
It was truly a "Heart"-full Day.
