Valentines Day

Ben was scheduled to work on Valentines day and night so we decided to celebrate the weekend before. We really hate paying $9/hr to have a babysitter watch the kids so we did a family date :) which was lots of fun. We went to Portillos, a local hamburger chain, and instead of sticking to our normal frugal dollar menu & shared fries and water only menu we got TWO orders of fries, onion rings, and TWO chocolate milkshakes to share! YUM! and can you believe this....our kids had never had a milkshake before! So it really was a special trip!

All three boys worked hard on filling out their valentines. There were really excited to pick some out after getting a fun package from Grammy & Grandpa J., Megan & Sam that was full of fun v-day cards.


Here is what they each picked out: Brannon-wild animals Colin-paper airplanes & Evrett-sports balls. We did manage a handmade "BOMB" for each of the boys' teachers. Brannon did NOT like these. He was so nervous the school would think it was real he would get in trouble for bringing a bomb to school...luckily their teachers just thought they were cute :)

I saw these funny Harry Potter valentines on Pinterest so had to print them off for my Valentine to the kids & Ben. We got some good laughs! Then each kids got a box of sugary junk cereal with a star wars pen inside. I'd set this up after they went to bed the night before but Evrett came out to get a drink(his room is right off the dining room) I thought I had distrated him enough to not notice but about 10 minutes later I was in the basement and heard the chairs being moved around a bunch and went up to find him looking at everything. When I put him back to bed he told me he hoped he didn't get the "black star wars scary guy who cuts hands off b/c he (evrett) didn't want to get his hand cut off because it would hurt" WHAT! I didn't even know he had seen star wars but he knew that Darth Vador cut Luke's hand off and was worried he'd get that pen.



This is what I got. Some beautiful drawings from the boys. A service coupon from Colin. and a funny card from Ben.

Ben also surprised me with a new watch! My old one broke back in Nov. but when I went to get a new one I didn't have the $40 to buy the one I liked (I've had the same style for about 10 years so I can do all the functions with my eyes closed) so I bought the cheap target $10 look-a-like and I HATED THE CRAP OUT OF IT! The dumb thing was so complicated to set any time or alarms. I couldn't even see the date/day (i never realized how lost in the week I get without my watch telling me what day of the week it is!) and the crazy thing had a mind of its own. The alarm would go off all hours of the night but said it was OFF so I was getting horrible sleep. Needless to say it was such a thoughtful and LOVED gift and now every time I check to see the date or time I think how lucky I have to have Ben :) mushy mushy cheezy but true.



I got Ben a real masculine gift:

My sister got the CD for Christmas and I'd heard Ben say a few times that he wanted to copy it onto his laptop but kept forgetting. Not too exciting but I tried. The poor guy gets gift gypped a lot.

I was teaching EVret's preschool on V-day but we decided to have a playgoup party instead. We met at the church with some balls and valentines to swap. It was fun! Evrett gets so quite and reserved around other kids so its fun to watch him run and play with kids his own age.