Valen-tiny

Every once in awhile a girl's just got to brag on herself.  I saw some cute bow tie / suspender sets online and thought, I can do that.  So I made the Mister some suspenders and tie for church and a matching skirt for Baby Sister.  Here are my Valentinies modeling their outfits.  The Mister calls this his "handsomest outfit".  Baby Sister was mostly impressed with the heart pockets for her treasures.

 

The day before Valentine's he had a party at school and I whipped up a cute little shirt for him to wear (I just sewed on the tie, of course) and a heart shirt for Baby Sister to match her skirt.  I'm really pleased how they turned out.

Brad was up to his own crafting too.  He had the kids make this handprrint card for me.  So cute!  I'm going to treasure it forever.  Mister recently asked what the biggest number was.  I told him when I was in second grade I learned about a "google" and thought that was the biggest number of all.  He has been using the term frequently now.  And Baby Sister copies everything he says :) 

His class made these moustache cards at school.  I put it on the garage door so that Brad would see it first thing when he came home from work that day.  It made him smile.  Who wouldn't want to be greeted by that face?

 

With all this cuteness, how could we not have a Happy Valentine's Day?!?!?

The Greatest Show on Earth

The circus came to town this year (maybe it comes to town every year, I haven't been paying attention until now) and we decided to take the kids.  We got a good deal on some cheap seats.  I wasn't expecting them to be that good, but actually since a lot of the action is up high, they were pretty good.  Brad and I saw Cirque Du Soleil in Redmond, WA but neither of us had been to a regular circus since we were kids so we weren't sure what to expect here.  We both thought it was really fun and so did the kids!

 

 

 

Poor Little Mister.  The show started at 7:30 so we knew it was going to be a late night.  I should have tried to get him to take a nap that afternoon, but instead I let him go to a playdate.  He fell asleep just before intermission and slept through the whole second half.  I don't think he realized he missed anything though!  I guess we will just have to make it a point to go again next time and definitely have a nap or go to an earlier show :)

 

Mister says his favorite part was the elephants.  Baby sister liked the "song".  I'm not sure what she meant but she will say she liked anything you mention.  My favorite part was definitely the trampoline guys but I also really liked the poodles. 

Graduation Day

In mid-December, Brad was finally able to officially graduate from his Master's program at Georgia Tech.  We went down to Atlanta for the occasion and stayed near Centennial Park.  It was a fun mini-vaca, although, I don't think I had thoroughly thought through the idea of having two young children all by myself in a fairly crowded auditorium for two hours past their bedtime. 

I'm pretty sure we spent more money on concessions than we did on the entire four years of tuition and books, but it was well worth it to keep them happy and content to stay in their seats.  I only had to chase (literally sprint) one child, one time through the concourse.

The next day we had a lot of fun exploring the park.

'Tis the Season

For visiting Santa 

For looking at Christmas lights

For baking cookies (thank you Melissa for the ninjabread idea!)

For spreading our Christmas cheer 

 

 

For nestling children all snug in their beds