Valentine's Day

In an effort to get caught up and hopefully stay caught up, I'm going to hop right into the present and go back and post-date Christmas and a few other posts.  Maybe that will help be get back to preserving our really big moments and memories.  Thankfully, Instagram records a lot of the rest.

Both kids were so sad when we took the Christmas decorations down.  In fact, they may still have trees in their rooms.  I thought doing Valentine's Day a little bigger might help with the post-Christmas blues.  So, I got a few decorations for our mantle and breakfast room and finally got some of the chair mailboxes.  Once February rolled around we had a few surprises in the mailboxes and did some Love 'Em Up activities.

 On Saturday morning, these clues were in their mailboxes.  These are essentially some of Avery's most-favorite things/places.  Avery has been so worried that the people at Chick-Fil-A had forgotten her {not that they actually know her anyway}.  She's coming up with some creative thoughts lately in hopes of getting her points and wishes across.

We scooted out of the house early and were thrilled to see the hot light on at Krispy Kreme.  Not only were they hot, but they were heart-shaped!

Our next stop was Target.  Even Sam loves "Targets."  Ned had the brilliant idea of letting them both choose one thing.  Sam choose a $9 train in about 15 seconds.  Avery took 15 minutes to finally choose a $35 singing Elsa.

We headed back towards home for Chick-Fil-A.  The kids were so excited to play first, since playing at any time is a rarity.  I just don't like those things.  We enjoyed our lunch and were home well before rest time, which always is a success in my book.