Happy Love Day 2017!

Love my cute Valentines :).

Valentines Day this year was wonderful and full of so much love! Austin is at such an adorable age where he finds every holiday so fascinating and exciting! He asks a million questions about what we do for each holiday, when we do it, and why we do it :). For days he has been writing us love notes in his own unique scribble-language. And Evie of course just follows along like his ever faithful follower, always ready for something new!

We started off the holiday a couple days earlier with a trip to the dollar store where they each picked out valentines cards and then took them home to color them for all their friends :). Their excitement over something so simple was so stinking cute! Austin chose Minions valentines and Evie of course chose Minney Mouse. That girl has a serious obsession with Minney! She literally starts screaming and jumping up and down if she sees Minney on TV and she insists on wearing her Minney Mouse pajamas every. single. day. Of course that is disgusting and I don't allow it but she puts up quite a fight when I try to explain this to her!

It's Valentine decorating time!

Austin took the job very seriously.

Oh how I love my little man and his excitement for life! He makes the holidays come alive for us!

Mid-morning on Valentines Day, we had a Baby-Valentines Day party with all our little friends in the ward and neighborhood! We met up at the park and decorated cupcakes and sugar cookies and ran around wild on the playground. Besides the wind, it was so picturesque. The sun was shining and the temperature was perfect. The kids had a blast playing together and us Mom's had a great time catching up on each others lives. Austin sweetly handed out all his valentines cards to his friends and their Mama's (which was too cute for words) and we ended up taking Evie's valentines back home because she was more interested in going down the super high slide all by herself over and over and over. She is such a dare devil! And heaven help the person who tries to tell her she's too little to do something!

Decorating cupcakes! I love Evie's little chocolate mustache on her "I mean business" face!

MMMmmmmm!!!

The whole gang!

The kids took the  job of decorating and eating so seriously and meanwhile us Moms were having a blast while we watched! haha!

Evie likes a little booger to go with her chocolate ;).

The little girl next to Austin is Blakely, Evie's best friend. They are so cute together and love to give each other hugs and kisses. I can't wait to see where their friendship goes as they get older!

Evie getting down to go run off all that sugar before she came back for seconds :).

While the kids were napping I stayed true to tradition and made everyone their homemade giant pink sugar cookie! Made with love by Mom :). It is a tradition my Mom started with us when I was a little girl and I absolutely loved it! Now I carry on this tradition with my own family and it gives me so much joy to see how it lights up all their sweet faces! When Josh got home from work he came bearing gifts (Roses for me and candies for the kiddos)! Then we sat down and finally got to dig into the cookies! Austin had been begging to eat his cookie for hours so he was frustrated that we had to stop and take a picture first haha :). But these pictures are something I treasure because it shows our little family as it grows each year. The kids also got to give Daddy their Valentine cards! Austin kept reading his out loud and changing the words to make it more silly each time since we laughed so hard at how cute his original card was hehe :).

The moment he had been waiting for.....

That cookie was bigger than her head! LUCKY GIRL!

Later that night, Josh watched the kids while I got to skip making dinner and go to a Pure Barre class! He spoiled me rotten that night with jewelry, chocolate, and flowers, but the gift of an hour to myself was by far the greatest gift of all! After putting the kids to bed, Josh and I had a romantic Valentines evening together with Sushi, chocolate, and lots of kisses ;).

I came home from Barre class so refreshed and in love with my sweet hubby. It was the perfect Valentines Day!

Austin snapped this pic and I am so sad that it's blurry because it's so sweet! I love my life so much and all the sweet people in it!