I have never decorated for Valentine's day before, but my little boys had so much fun decorating the house for Christmas, and were so sad when the decorations came down, that I decided to do a couple of things for Valentine's day. They loved it! I made the ABC sign and I just gathered some stuff I had around the house for the rest of what is sitting on the shelf.
Tad gets pretty bored now that he is home all day without his brothers, so one day we made this cute wire heart banner.
I love how it turned out so much I just had to share another shot of it.
We spent another couple of days making this cute watercolor heart banner. One day we painted paper with watercolors in cute little patterns. Then the next day we cut the hearts out and taped them to some bakers twine. We then hung it on the fireplace mantle.
Speaking of the fireplace - I have spent most of the past year with the fireplace looking like this . . .
At last, Jeremy has had the time to finish it and I am happy to show you that it now looks like this . . .
Much better! I love it!!
A little bit more of a close up. Ignore the mess in the fireplace. We use this as a heat source too, so there is a fire in it every night.
And a close-up of the top section. I am working on getting this thing decorated. I will share it once I am happy with it.
Jack had his 2nd Pinewood Derby this year. He made a DeLorean hoping to win show. It was cool, but kind of chunky looking next to the sleeker looking cars built for speed. Amazingly that big chunky DeLorean was pretty fast and took 2nd place in speed. Last year he took third in speed, and this year second. Not bad!
Jeremy has now helped make eight pinewood derby cars for his boys. Only seven more to go. We have turned the corner! Hooray!!!
Two years ago, we took Dallin and Thomas to the Oregon Coast and we have been promising the little boys a big trip for them. We all decided to take another trip to Disneyland. Tad was just a little bit too little the last time we went, so it was fun to take him again when he could really enjoy it. Of course, Drake and Jack had a ball too.
As you can see, the first day there was pretty crowded, but between hitting Frontierland and Adventureland first (They were soooo empty first thing in the morning) and then using our fast passes, we were able to get a lot done on day one.
Another picture from our Disneyland day.
The second day we hit California Adventure. It was fun and not too busy. We were able to ride all our favorite rides twice and still have time to go back and hit a couple of our favorites at Disneyland, and a couple we had missed there because it was so busy the day before. That night we finished off the night seeing World of Color. It was pretty cool.
Here is a shot of the boys enjoying a Red's Apple Freeze at Car's Land.
This trip had to be pretty short because Jeremy needed to get back to work, so we only spent two days at Disney. Our last day we headed straight to the beach. They boys enjoyed about an hour there playing in the sand and water and collecting sea shells. It was pretty foggy at first, but it had mostly burned off by the time we left.
After the beach we loaded up in the car and drove home. Thanks to GG and Grandad for letting Dallin and Thomas stay with them while we took the little boys on this trip. It was a good time!!