Happy Valentines Day!!

This year Valentines Day was fun for our family. At least for The Bug and I. He was very much more into it this year. We decorated the windows with some heart window clings, and hung up some Valentines Decorations, which he thought was awesome!

Then on Valentines we made daddy a Valentine to take him to work. He loved putting the stickers on and coloring with markers. Didn't want to stop. :) Shayne had started a new job at the hospital which now puts him there M-F 8-5ish (depending on his basketball schedule). The info about the new job will be on another post. Anyway...it was his first day at the new job. So, I thought we would just stop and leave the valentines we created on his locker at work so we wouldn't be bothering him. But...I mistakenly told The Bug we were taking these "walentine" hearts to dad, so he thought he was really going to see dad. Whoops. Needless to say he wasn't giving up the heart to anyone but dad...so we waited until he got out of a meeting to give dad his heart. Good thing there are some cool fish tanks and other toys to entertain munchkins at the hospital! Dad was ok with the break and thought it was pretty cool his Bug wanted to give it to him.

After delivering our valentine to dad we went home, and mom made sugar cookies while The Bug was sleeping. It's been a tradition for as long as I can remember to have Valentine sugar cookies...and my mom has the BEST recipe ever. They are never hard and crunchy, if you make them right. Always soft...yummy!

I let The Bug decorate one after he got up and then eat it. I've been learning how to use my camera in manual mode, but was having some technical difficulties changing my shutter speed to match my aperture fast enough to get some good pics, so some of the pics are fuzzy...but it was funny showing the progression of the sugar cookie disappearing. :)

Then we got a UPS package that was wrapped in all sorts of bubble wrap...and who doesn't love that stuff? The Bug ended up wrapping himself up in the stuff and walking around with it popping bubbles. Too funny!!

The last pic is of the fun little kazoo Nana Price got him for Valentines day...he calls it his "horn" and walks around making little songs.

After work and basketball practice Shayne came home and insisted we go out to dinner for Valentines day...even with The Bug. He's a pretty good kid in public places...he mostly just entertained the other customers. So, that was fun for us...and for me to not have to cook dinner. :)

So, even though it wasn't the most romantic Valentines Day (which is not a big deal to me, b/c it was more like Single Awareness Day for me for way too long so not my favorite holiday), it was so much more fun with a little dude who was having fun and more "into" it than he has been in the past. Can't wait for the other holidays...St. Patrick's Day, here we come!!!