Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!!

I'm sure most of you read on Erica's blog that she and Ray had the crazy idea to take the kid's to Dallas. Well, what she didn't include was that Ellie happened to be at their house at the time. Stu and I had taken Logan to see Avatar at the IMAX. (Awesome, by the way...) So I get a call at about 7:40 on the way home (actually she had called me about 3 or 4 times, but I hadn't heard since my phone was still on vibrate in my purse from the movie) and she says to me, OK I have a crazy idea. When she first said it, I didn't know how to respond. Then quickly we decided that the kids would both have to go with them so they wouldn't miss this once in a lifetime thing. So we had Logan packed and met them at McDonald's by 8:30. Crazy, huh?

I'm really glad they did it though. I do wish I would have been able to go with them, but that would have been much more complicated. Stuart had a haircut appt. the next day and we had promised to bring snacks to Logan's basketball game (that he missed!). So, we got an evening and day to ourselves out of the deal. After Stu got back from getting his hair cut, he got a call from the salon. He had entered a drawing to win a gift basket and won! Woo hoo! So we decided to go to lunch at Pappasitos then go pick it up. Pretty cool, huh? The flowers were the only thing not included. The black thing is a folding carrier for curling irons, etc. There was also shampoo and conditioner, hairspray, a big mug with chocolates, a heart with chocolates, lollipops, a bear, a curling iron and a mini flat iron. Not bad!

This morning we had a Valentine's day breakfast. We also did our annual scavenger hunt for the presents. Basically I leave out a small gift for each along with a note telling them where to go hunt for the next clue. A few clues later, they find more gifts. This year I didn't do the best job with the gifts. It seems like Valentine's has been going on for a week now! My class had their party last Wed. Then both kids had theirs at school on Thursday since they were off on Friday. So I'm pretty valentines'd out! But I did manage to whip up some pink heart shaped pancakes, heart-shaped bacon (sort of) and pink strawberry smoothies all served on valentine's dishes! Not bad since I hadn't really planned any of it ahead of time!

Ellie had just woken up in case you couldn't tell!!

Hope you all had or are still having a good Valentine's day!