Valentines Day 2012

Valentines Day was a big hit this year. Annie was so excited for this holiday that I had to get into it for her. See below for our adventures and Happy Valentines Day to all of you and your loved ones!

Making homemade Valentines for her class. 

We attached bubbles as her treats.

Adam sent me 3 dozen beautiful roses.  Such a lovely husband I have!

Annie started the day with a chocolate covered strawberry.  Delish.

At school.  All the kids had bags for their treats.  Annie gave all of her teachers beautiful flower plants.

Annie is a Koala bear at school.  They all made Koala valentines for us Moms and Dads.

Doing her class song.  Definitely hysterical.

Making her Valentines crafts.

Desare' and Ella.  Love these girls.

For Dinner we had heart shaped raviolis, broccoli, strawberries and a little cake for Annie.  Was a really nice dinner made nicer by the fact that Adam was home at 4 today to join us.  Annie was so very excited by it all. 

Her Daddy brought her a dozen pink roses which she was so excited to get.  She said it made her a big girl.  Nothing like Daddy and Daughters. 

Annie opening her Valentines treats!

Annie wanted her flowers in her room like Mommy.

Annie showing us all of her goodies from school.

Lastly we started a rewards system for Annie at home.  Working great so far. At the end of the week if she has all of her stars she gets a treat.  A new book, or a yogurt for treat, you get the idea. 

3-D tastic

In other news Mommy is FINALLY getting the built in done in her family room for the TV.  We have a big cut out but just slid a piece of furniture in it which looks kind of incomplete.

I am getting my last bid in this week and could not be more excited.  Talk of bead board and moulding really does it for me!  

Why should I get to have all of the fun?  I shouldn't right?  Adam got in on the action with a new TV. Our TV was on its way out and we wanted to sell it before the bulb was dim to the point of needing to be replaced.

Adam chose this HOT Samsung 55, 3D TV that is in their 8000 series.  The frame on this baby is razor thin, it looks like the picture is floating.  We will have a foe wall put in the built in for it to hang on.  If it was possible for a TV to be sexy, this baby is hot.  Avatar here we come!  We got the TV all set up last night and the picture is like nothing I have ever seen.

Mommy is thinking the built in will look similar to this but with 2 shelves instead of one, only 2 cabinet doors, and in the area for the TV will have a false wall that comes much further forward for the TV to be mounted on. We will also have the bead board on the cabinet doors not just behind the shelves, and of course, pewter hardware.



Adam is getting new speakers and a sound bar and all of that so we have to work that into the design but needless to say I am very excited.  Happy Valentines Day to us!!!

Crafty Kind of Weekend

Sorry for the lack of posting lately.  Annie girl had Pneumonia last week!  She was out of school Tuesday- Friday and Mommy and Daddy had to take turns staying home with her.

To add icing to the cake the day that Annie got better Mommy got her TERRIBLE cold, though luckily it did not turn into Pneumonia.  Today is the first day everyone is feeling decent in our house.

This weekend we made Annie's "All About Me" poster for her week at school.  I have never seen this girl so excited about anything in her life.



She helped me choose all of the pictures, told me it was mandatory that it be all pink and purple with flowers, and had to have all of the things she loved.

Adam got in on the fun and did all of the ribbon weaving and gluing on the top, I think he is quite the crafter indeed.  Annie decorated all the letters with glitter glue, glued on all of the flowers and chose all the pictures.  Mommy had to do all of the cutting and hot gluing.

We have a video of her telling all about the things she loves and why as she explains her poster.  Adam will post it shortly.

This afternoon its on to coloring Valentines, or as Annie says "Balentines" for her class party.

I think the second half of Feb is shaping up to be much better than the first!

Annie got bored waiting for Mommy to finish cutting the mats so she made and owl craft with Daddy.  They had a hoot of a good time. 

Mommy's Girls Night Out

I finally feel like I hit an excellent groove here with some great girl friends.  I have a few great groups of friends on this side of the bay now.  Feeling really lucky to have met such great friends and fellow ACLC Moms.  All of our girls have been bears at school, Little Bears, Koala Bears, Honey Bears you get the idea.  We named ourselves the Mama Bears and we have a standing date once a month.  Felt great to get out with the ladies!


Annie and Daddy stayed home.  She has been pretty sick this week.  She has been out of school all week.  She is on the mend now and Daddy came home early so Mommy could go out. 

Looking forward to a weekend with a healthy Annie!

This weekend my parents came for a visit and spent some quality time with Annie.  They got to go see her at dance for the first time and they said that they had a blast watching her and all of the other little girls together.

 

  

 

Sunday we had David's birthday party on the train.  They had 200 people!  And rented out the whole train.  It was quite the adventure for little miss Annie and she had a great time.

 

Little David.

Annie brought her Bun Bun along for the trip as she was a bit scared of how BIG the train was when they got there.  I love the picture of her and David from the outside of the train with Bun Bun.  It looks like they are off to see Santa without any grown ups.