My Funny Valentines

Malakai was supposed to wear red to preschool yesterday so I dressed Isaac in red too. Adorable little valentines! We spent time making homemade valentine cards out of construction paper on Friday night for Malakai to hand out to all of his friends at preschool. Stickers and little drawings. I didn't remember this holiday being such a big deal, but apparently it always has been. He came home with a huge bag of goodies from his classmates and was excited to show everything to me. So after a special lunch of heart-shaped pb&j (his favorite), I handed out a few gifts to the boys as well. A few weeks ago, my neighbor graciously gave me a box of toys and clothes that her kids were done with. It was an amazing blessing and I decided to spread out the gifts over time instead of all at once. So yesterday a few of these items appeared. I still have some that will make an appearance around Easter. They loved the new fire truck, blocks, and ball popper but about ten minutes later, I found them wrestling. This is becoming a regular activity. Gotta love being a boy mom ;) Usually Isaac just laughs his big belly laugh and Malakai smiles and smiles. I love to watch and yesterday I had my camera nearby to capture a few moments.

I don't know about the rest of you, but winter is really starting to drag. I mean, it's one thing to have a winter where it snows 18 inches several times throughout the season and you can go and play in the white stuff, but this year has just been so dreary. A few snow flurries here and there but too wet to even bother to go out and play. Tonight, Malakai starts his 6 week long swim lessons. We did it last May/June with him but it was way too much with our busy wedding season, so I decided to try it over the winter here. Gives us all a reason to get out of the house and Grandma offered to come along and help out. I think Isaac may want to go swimming too :)

And yes, we had a wonderful, quiet Valentine's evening in. The boys had a pizza party at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Eric brought home Rachel's Crepes and we had a few hours of a quiet house to ourselves. Music and candlelight, all in our own home. Now that is relaxing at it's finest. We realized this was our 10th valentine's day together. Our first big date was on Feb.14th ten years ago when I was a senior at Messiah College and Eric was fresh out of YWAM. He took me to The Timbers in Mount Gretna and we've been back several times since. It's also where he took me the night we got engaged so we have plenty of special memories from there. Oh how time changes everything. We are so blessed!

Happy Wednesday!