Happy Valentines Day

She is learning to write her letters and her own name now. I'm so proud.

This week Allison and I did some great crafts. I love when I can find stuff around the house to use. Its not only fun to find craft stuff around the house but it saves us money too. Now that Allison is in pre-school we had to get valentine cards for her friends and teacher's. I had left over cards from last year so we used them. We then decided to make the teachers little gifts of thanks. I used a baby food jar and had Allison paint the tops. I found some little wooden craft heart and I had her paint them. I also had her stamp some paper that I glued around the jar. The only thing I had to buy for valentines day was the candy. She also had fun making her grandparents cards and her daddy one too. Oh how I love to save money. Everyone loved there cards and candies.

For Valentines this year Kyle took Friday off so we could go on a date. Grandma Nancy took the kids for a few hours while Kyle and I went out to the Barking Frog for lunch. The food was amazing. I had gluten free chicken pasta which was mouth watering. Kyle had the crab sandwich, it was good but he enjoyed mine more. We shared a wonderful chocolate dessert too. After lunch we went the movies. I had tickets that I won at Elke's 40Th birthday party. We saw the movie "Dear John" written by Nicholas Sparks, one of my favorite Authors. We had such a great time. It was a much needed date together without the kids. Afterwards we picked up Caleb. Allison stayed the night at Grandmas and we headed home. As we were driving home we both did not want to cook so we decided to head over to Dicks Drive In, yummy. Oh how I love Seattle. Yep, once again I cheated and had wheat. I am having a hard time giving it up when we go out to eat. The next morning we woke up with just Caleb. It was a nice and quiet morning. We went for a run, then we ran to Starbucks and home again. Kyle also let me take a long nap. I have such a wonderful husband. Happy Valentines Allison, Caleb and Kyle. I love you all and I am so blessed to call you my family.