Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Lover's Holiday

A major snowstorm blew threw our area on the day before Valentine's Day, cancelling school on both Thursday and Friday. Fortunately the roads were all cleared by Friday night so Jason and I could attend our ward's Valentine's activity. Jason was in charge of activities and music while I did the couple pictures so we were kept pretty busy that night, but it was still a fun way to bring in the holiday. 

We even got a fun little picture of us at the photo booth!

Since school was cancelled on Friday, the kids had their Valentine's parties on the following Monday. I was fortunate to be able to volunteer at both of them. Here is Abby with her two best friends (Amanda and Sydney). These girls are all in the same class, all live in our neighborhood,



and all have birthdays within a week of each other. I think their friendship was meant to be!!

Here is Landon doing what he does best, scarfing down some sugar!!

Valentine's Day in Elementary School is such a fun holiday. You get notes and candy from everyone in your class and your family treats you to some extra special love that day too!
 
We did do a fun tradition this year of writing love notes to each other starting on February 1. At our family dinner on the 14th, we each took turn reading our notes and the kids were grinning from ear to ear hearing all those nice things about each other. 
Our "Jars of Love!"

This tradition is definitely a keeper for our family!

1 comment:

Steph Thomas said...

That is super cute, and such a great idea. We did something sort of similar but I think this was better. You always have fun with your kids.