Valentine's Day Box

This was the first year Lucy got to make a Valentine's box to use with trading Valentine's at school. Last year she had a Valentine's Day party with Valentine cards, but they just make a sack or something to use for the box at school. I was very excited to learn that we got to make our own box for this year!

Lucy and I looked on Pinterest for ideas and inspirations and we settled on making a bird house box. I think it turned out so cute and it was really easy to make, too. I used two boxes and after a little cutting and taping, had the house ready to decorate. We used some very pretty pink heart wrapping paper we found at Target and some brown scrapbook paper I had on hand to cover the box and make it look pretty. I also hot-glued on some fringe-like ribbon to go around the border. I wanted to cut out some cute little birds to stick on the house and put her name on it in a really cute font, too. We didn't share the same ideas in decorating her house, so I let her have fun with decorating it. She used some heart stickers to decorate the box, along with a little piece of ribbon and a bell so the bird would have something to play with. :)

It was kind of hard for me to let her decorate it as she wanted because I had a grander vision for it. But I am very glad that I let her take over because after all, it was her box to decorate and she did a good job with it!

Valentines Day #10

Valentine's Day 2018 was the tenth Valentine's Day that Ross and I have shared together! It's funny how time sneaks by so slowly, yet so quickly. We celebrated Tuesday with a Valentine's Day party for Lucy and her dance friends, and then went out to eat for our traditional dinner at Popeye's. We've been eating there for Valentine's Day since 2013. It's one of Ross' favorite places to eat. Wednesday I got to help out with Lucy's preschool party and then that evening we gave the girls their presents and Ross took Lucy to life group while I took Molly to dance class. Last year Ross was at class on Valentine's Day.....maybe next year we can have an evening at home to celebrate the day!

Ross did surprise me with a very sweet gift. I had mentioned to him about a month ago that I wanted a gold bar necklace. I told him I'd send him a link to what I wanted, but never did mainly because I couldn't decide which necklace I wanted. He never asked me about it again and I forgot about it, so wasn't expecting anything at all. Our tradition is to put our gifts to each other on our bed with Steve, the teddy bear he gave me for our first Valentine's Day in 2009. (I don't know why we put the gifts on our bed, we just do.) I started to open the card but then noticed something shiny on Steve's neck. I looked closer and found it was a bar necklace! It wasn't what I wanted, but I didn't care at all! That was the sweetest gift because he remembered what I wanted and said he looked at lots of places to find it, too. Happy Valentine's Day!

New Year's Presents

Every year for as long as I can remember, I've gotten to open New Year presents from my Mom on New Year's Day. They have never been anything big, but just a little something. She always gets me a calendar, and maybe some note cards, some miscellaneous items, and most always a bottle of sparkling grape juice. Like I said, nothing really big, but something fun and appreciated!