Molly made this for me at school during her Valentine's Day party! I love it! It's a canvas that she glued tissue paper hearts onto and put mod podge all over it. I think it turned out great! (Molly's not a fan of having her picture taken sometimes!)
We went to the mall on Molly's birthday and we ended up going into the "Loli and Pop" candy store there. We looked around a bit and then I decided to let the girls get some candy. This was a lot of fun to me because it brought back good memories from when I was a kid and would go to the mall with my friends and buy candy from the candy store. Mr. Bulky's was the candy store in our mall when I was growing up and I remember them having soooooooo many varieties of candy! I also remember being careful to not fill my candy bags up too much because that candy was expensive!
I don't know how, but my mom and I discovered these chewy grapefruit wedge candies that we both really liked! She would get them for me for special occasions and sometimes just because. She would also get me red coin candies that were just chewy/jube jell candies that I loved. In fact, those candies were kind of my "food" for my first night away at college in my dorm room! I didn't know anyone at all the first night I stayed there and was too scared to go outside of my room to get some food! I was so hungry and thankfully mom had hidden some of the red coins in my bag so I had "food" to eat! Fun memory!
Anyway, it was a lot of fun going in that candy store! I wish it would have been bigger like Mr. Bulky's was because Mr. Bulky's had a huge variety of candy. Loli and Pop just seems to have a large variety of gummy bears, but not many other types of candy. The girls got gummy bears and I got some grapefruit wedges, too!
We have some fun neighbors! I've written about them here, telling about some of the pranks they (mainly Mike) have played on it. It snowed about 8" a few weeks ago and due to the way our house sits in relation to the sun in the winter, any snow on our front yard takes much longer to melt compared to all of the other houses in our neighborhood. The picture below is from one week and one day after we received 8" of snow. It might be hard to tell, but there's still a decent amount of snow on the ground.
One morning when I came home from the gym I noticed a big sign on our front bushes. It was a little hard to see what what the sign said from the road, but I immediately knew it was something from Mike! I pulled in the garage, got out, and walked over to the sign to read, "Yard equipped with underground refrigeration."
It made me laugh out loud because it was just funny and quite clever! I could see how someone might wonder if we did have something like that based on how long the snow stays in our yard! But I know Mike knew better, he was just being a prankster!
We had a fun time celebrating Molly's 7th birthday! We had a friend party the weekend before, a family party the day before, and on her birthday we had a fun time celebrating her some more!
Both parties were a "donuts and pajamas" theme and everyone wore pajamas, even grandparents! We had donut bingo and pin the sprinkle on the donut for games and of course, lots of donuts to eat!
Her birthday was on a Sunday and our church had sent her a birthday card the week before along with a sticker that said "it's my birthday." She was very excited to wear it to church and everyone sang happy birthday to her! She wanted to go to the mall in the afternoon on her birthday, so we went to the mall! She was also promised a McDonald's happy meal for dinner and loved everything about it!
Molly is such a fun girl and loved everything about all of her celebrating! I love her enthusiasm and excitement for life!
We had a nice Valentine's Day this year. The girls had a great time at their class parties and enjoyed getting a gift from Ross and I. We gave Lucy a set of make-up brushes that she LOVED and Molly got a Doorables toy that she had been wanting. It's fun when they get so excited for their gifts!
Ross brought me flowers and bought me a new throw blanket for the couch. We had a yummy steak dinner that night that was even cut into the shape of a heart! I tried to get some good pictures of all of us, but for whatever reason, the girls just can't hold still and smile for like 5 seconds! Oh well.........
