Valentine's Day(s) 2010

We celebrated a lot of love this year!

First up? Build-A-Bear with Mimi and Grandpa (and Aunt Terri, she was in town from Idaho!). We stayed at Tate's house the night before, which the girls LOVE! He read them a bedtime story.

Three little peas in a pod. They were watching "Happy Feet". You know your kids have watched the movie too many times when they can sing the songs, complete with head motions and "Ugh, ugh, ugh" in the right spot!!

Can I just say that Build-A-Bear is INSANE????!!!!! It's a little sesory overload when you walk in. But, the kids had a blast and ate up all the cheesiness of it. Here they are with Mimi and Grandpa with their "bears". Tate was the only one who left with an actual bear...well, I don't know if you would call it a bear when it has royal blue fur and peace signs all over it:) Mallory picked out a Dalmatian and name her "Alisha". I have no idea where she heard that name! Alisha has become a part of our family. Mallory feeds her, takes her in the car, sleeps with her and tells me when she needs something. Hilarious to see her little imagination. Morgan picked out a cat and we named her "Maddie" (after our favorite 19 month old).

It dawned on my mom that there are three generations of sisters in our family! How fun is that? So, we took the photo op in Grapevine Mills. I don't look like I belong in this family with blondes. Dad, Brad and Wade...no comment!

The night before Valentine's Day, we had a very romantic dinner in Waco. It was the FCA Coache's Appreciation dinner. Actually, it was a nice night with a free dinner and free childcare...can't beat that!

Mallory got a haircut since the last time I blogged. We chopped her hair off due to the tangles and tears she had every. single. day. morning. and. night. She LOVES her hair! The day she had it cut (and shampooed and styled!), she asked for me to lower the rear view mirror so she could look at it. As soon as we got home, she ran to her bathroom and stood on the stool stroking her hair. I walked by and she said, "Mommy, I do look good!" She also looks about 10 years old!

Morgan is sporting a new hairstyle these days, too! Here are her first (pathetic) pigtails!! Can you see them? Look really close by her ears and you'll see the tiny little poof of hair. Yes, those are her pigtails:) She thinks she's big stuff with pigtails. She shows them off to anyone who looks her way!

I was so excited Valentine's Day fell on a Sunday this year! We went to the late service at church and enjoyed a real breakfast (we don't normally have time for anything more than waffles!). No, that is not a heart shaped pat of butter...that was the first pancake from the batch. Why does it take a couple of pancakes before they come out golden brown? Or, is it just me?

I bought the girls just a couple of little things, but decided Saturday night, to take it all back. I knew they would love the mylar balloons just as much as a new Ariel umbrella...well, maybe not, but I can save that for their Easter basket! Sure enough, as soon as they saw those heart shaped balloons, that was it. They have played with their $2 balloons for two straight days! Cards are equally as exciting in their world. Morgan spent about 15 minutes reading and re-reading her card from BMom and Pop.

In honor of the day of love, the girls sported their pink! Here are my little Valentines with my favorite Valentine of all!!!!

Sunday night, we had plans for dinner with three other couples. We almost missed out due to a little 3 1/2 year old that woke up with a low grade fever and cough. Doesn't that always happen? Luckily, we were able to drop off the younger one at the reserved childcare and take Mallory with us to our friend's house. We stuck her in the bedroom with all the DVDs she could want and enjoyed a yummy dinner with our friends. We missed our friends that were sick and couldn't come:(

It was a great Valentine's weekend to celebrate the people I love!