It's a Sunshine Day!

Do you feel the fresh warm(er) air....we do, Spring is just around the corner!!! But that means that we have to take advantage of playing out in this nice white fluffy snow while we can! The temps have warmed quite a bit compared to what they have been the past few weeks and this has been perfect weather to play outside! Dylan has had some super fun times playing out in the snow, building forts and snowmen and even doing some sledding! Ahh, the joys of being a kid.


We also decided to give a little one on one time with the kids this weekend. While Mommy and Dylan went sledding, Daddy and Danielle had some snuggle time indoors! These times are very important we have learned, this way each child feels that much more important with individual attention from Mom and Dad! We enjoy these times almost as much as we enjoy family time all together

Sunday we decided to give Dylan a little extra special fun play time with Mom and Dad. We did not tell him before hand what we were doing, only that it was a surprise afternoon for him. We hopped in the car and headed into town, all the way he asked where we were going and we said only, 'to the surprise place.' We arrived and told him to look up at the sign...Chuck E Cheese! He was walking in with us and almost like he didn't believe us, he kept asking if he really was getting to go there, priceless! We spent just over 2 hours playing all about, games, taking pictures, shooting hoops and playing football. We had a blast! It was sure a blast from the past for Mom and Dad but seeing the huge smile on Dylan's face and hearing his giggles, those moments sure were priceless! We truly had a wonderful afternoon with our little man!

We then packed up the whole family and headed to the Olive Garden for a Valentine Family Dinner! It was delicious as usual and we were all stuffed! We headed home and finished the last touches on Dylan's Valentines for his school classmates and friends!

Dylan love standing there watching or trying as hard as he could to 'win' a game, but I think his most favorite part was collecting all of the tickets after each game! He had that figured out really quick and was very excited to cash them all in for prizes!!We started making Valentines last Thursday and got them pretty well packaged up. I cut out the names, Dylan stuck the names on them with glue and then we put stickers on the bags and hand wrote out his valentines with his name and their names too. We had a great time and this was a first for Mommy and Dylan making Valentines for his school. He had little Dinosaur valentines and little sticky dinosaur figurines to put in the goodie bags, along with some stickers and individual bags of Gold Fish crackers, yum! We then make goodie bags for his Childcare Teachers as well and Miss Michelle too!

We all awoke this morning and gave big hugs and kisses to each other. It was a Valentines morning filled with love in the air, it was great! Dylan could hardly wait to get his things packed up for school, he was very excited for his big day ahead. I dropped him off and the little stinker didn't even say goodbye to me, thankfully I had already kissed his little head when he took his coat off because I turned around after putting his things down and he was off. It makes my heart so happy to see him so excited for school every day, what a great feeling as a parent!
Valentines for the Childcare Teachers

Valentines for his classmates and friends!!

Valentines from Mommy and Daddy for our two little sweeties!!

Tonight we picked him up and his backpack was stuffed, and I mean stuffed with Valentines. He had these two BIG bags full of cards and candy and goodies from all of his friends. He definitely was feeling the extra love today. It was like Halloween with all of the goodies that he brought home! HA!
'Look Mom, two huge bags FULL of Valentines!!'

This evening we made a really nice dinner at home and relaxed, put the kids in their snugly pj's after nice warm baths and we are cuddled up on the couch. Sadly my little peanut Danielle has to have her 2nd set of ear tubes put in tomorrow in IC. This was very sudden, we are praying for a quick surgery without any hassles, and no more ear pain for our little sweetie. More on that later....We hope this Valentines has found you with the ones you love the most. We hope that you had a smile on your face today feeling the love that surrounds you. We sure felt it, while we feel it every day, today is a special day where there is definitely no un-noticed love in the air! The weather outside has been just beautiful and we are searching our yard to see those little brown spots of grass here and there. Not too much yet, but the warm sunshine feels....ooooh so good!~