A Perfect Day.

February 14th:

We weren’t able to go to church today because of the little flu bug that’s been in my house this past week. As Mary says, “we’re not nursery worthy.”  We’re not even Sunday School or church worthy yet. But we were all able to hang out together & do some fun things today. Did I mention I LOVE Valentine’s Day?  I like pink and hearts and the word “love” and all the things that go along with it. James & I even have a song- it’s called Cupid by Sam Cooke. I’m a sap.  James made muffins with the kids this morning while Chloe & I snuggled in bed a little longer than usual. Then they brought me presents:)  James gave me the most wonderful book about the history of the camera. I fell in love with it immediately & didn’t want to put it down. They also gave me a really cool brown hat (because brown is my favorite color). James made a dvd that made me cry. He used “The Luckiest” by Ben Folds and an obscure Toad song that I love. We had a picnic at our park and played baseball and football, we had naps, we made pizzas shaped like hearts. I made clues for our little Amazing Race Challenge since tonight was the season premiere. Each team (Kennedy and James were team#1 and Cade  & Canyon were team#2) had to list 10 pronouns, then they had to travel to the playroom and find a basket full of socks. Inside 4 of the socks were letters. They had to find all 4 letters & unscramble them to make a word. Then they had to run outside find a bucket full of water with measuring cups and fill another cup with water from the bucket using only the measuring cup.  The boys won but it was really close.
I made a pink cake with pink frosting and a red sugared heart design on top.  We ate cake & watched the Amazing Race. Overall it was a perfect day. Before the boys went to bed Cade said, “we should call this happy happy happy valentine’s day.”  That made my heart smile♥

I’m about 2 weeks behind in everything. I wrote this post after Valentine’s day, but I’m just now getting to the photos. Yikes! Hopefully things will slow down next week? When you have 5 kids do things ever slow down? Stef? Jenny? Carolyn?  Anyone else with 5 kids want to share a little encouragement?