Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines from two Cutie-patotie's!


We went to a playdate/Valentine's party this morning. It was so fun to celebrate with sweet friends, yummy food, and of course some crafts too.


Making a craft for Daddy! (Cutie Pie, you slept almost the whole time!)

These girls may not be thrilled with this picture one day but...I tried really hard to get you to both look at me and smile and this is what I got. We're thankful for our sweet friends! They hugged and said Happy Valentines to each other no less than 20 times!


We hope you are having a love-filled day too!!

Stop and smell the roses

It's the little things in life.

Valentine's Day this year was just 1 day after Chris got home from a stressful week in C.A. for business. I told him not to make a big deal out of the 14th. He did offer to get up with our Cupcake so I could sleep in. I don't have to tell any of the new mothers out there that this in itself was a gift. About two hours after she woke up Chris and Cupcake come into our room with breakfast on a tray...breakfast in bed! Chris made yummy pancakes with strawberries that he cut into hearts (someone sweet and tiny ate the extras while Dada was busy!). I also got sunny side up eggs and Cranberry juice. YUM!

Later after we all cuddled in bed for while I came downstairs to a beautiful bouquet of a dozen roses. Our cupcake was just as excited about the flowers as me. She smelled each individual one and made different faces in response. We were rolling with laughter as she stopped to smell each one.

As the rose smelling was ending my cell phone started ringing to the tune of one of the songs Chris and I consider "our song." I used to have this on my old phone so that I would know when it was Chris calling. One day it stopped working. We kept trying to fix it with no luck. We just got new phones and Chris had been trying to get it on the new phone too....no luck. But, he apparently figured it out and surprised me. It was the most thoughtful and perfect gift....

it's the little things in life.

Sweets, Sweeties, and so on...

Remember these drooling monsters:




That was so 10 months ago. Now they are on the go...



Today the Cupcake and I headed to our sweet friend's, Liza and Lily's, house. Actually because of nap schedules and the reality of how long a project can take with the little angels....we went around lunch, came home for a nap, and then went back again. Either way we had a fun afternoon letting the girls play, drive, jump, play music, cry together, and have a little tea party. In between the action we even made some sweets for our other sweets (and us...we won't try to act like we aren't eating a few too). We are so thankful to have such dear friends so close. Chloe loves Lily and I love Liza. I hope the girls continue to grow their friendship for a LONG LONG time.

Here's the outcome of Liza and I's work: