For as long as I can remember, crafting, decorating and making little events into big things to celebrate has brought me so much joy. However, recentley Ive felt just so overrun by life that the things that make me feel that little spark of myself, I've let get away. I want it back. So, this Valentines, although still so wildly busy (6 different basketball games total that day) I made an effort to celebrate the silly little holiday of Valentines Day. I set up a dinner a few days before when we had a night off, decorated my little heart off and put together little gifts for everyone. It filled my whole heart and I immediately found that spark of joy!
Class Valentines were prepped and ready to go! Penny picked out this little card style. We printed them, cut them out and taped on cute lip suckers! Bentley just handed out the lip suckers without the valentine card and Carter.. well, he's in High School so his valentine hand out phase is sadly long gone.
Penny and I did valentines hair and nails and while they were at school, I decorated. Our space was FILLED with pink and red bows and hearts and it was so happy looking!
I put little Valentines treats together for each kid. I specifically asked Carter and Bentley if they'd be my Valentine - to which they quickly replied "yes". Penny though... she declined being my valentine this year.. haha..
The track your animal QR code is SO fun! Im glad I ordered them. Of course, Brian and I exchanged cards and sweet Penny, although initially rejecting my invitation to be my valentine, made Brian and I the sweetest card.
We had a candle lit lasagna and salad dinner complete with heart shaped macaroons and vanilla ice cream with homemade caramel sauce. It was sooo yummy and so nice to just eat dinner together sharing simple conversations, that was the best part.
Penny wanted her own valentines photos.. and Kobe too ;) We did them a couple of weeks earlier when I had it set up for clients. This is the prettiest girl in the world! You are beautiful Penny girl. I love that you wanted these photos, I will cherish them too.
As for Brian. He is the absolute love of my life. I am so obsessed with everything about him. This season of life is plastered with kids. Everything we do, is for them. But every night, when the house is quiet and the day is done and its so late, we're cuddled up and just being us. Its the glue that holds us together. Brian, I cherish you.
We spent valentines day in 3 separate gyms. Both driving separate vehicles and dividing and conquering the entire day. I started at the grocery store at 8:45am while he got the kids up and going. We didn't go to bed until 12:30am after picking up Carter from a friends house. The day was long but fun. Carter, Bentley and Penny all played in a tournament and crushed it.
To be honest, Bentley has the least amount of photos.. because his games were so intense I clearly couldn't even focus on photos. I pulled out my phone to video because kids were going to fight, two hand shoving Bentley and his team, everyone screaming, other teams yelling vulgar things from the sidelines .. every game was so crazy and uneasy. Bentley played GREAT this weekend. This was the last tournament and game with his current team. He's moving to another team next season and we're not sure how our hearts are feeling about it. Emotions are high. We are going to miss our people, our teammates and our bench buddies but for development, this is the right move. We will come back stronger and ready to fight. I love you Bentley, you handled this final weekend with grace and class and Im so proud you belong to us. You're amazing.
Im grateful for this Valentines day. No injuries, so many wins and laughs and I got to do it hand-in-hand and side-by-side my guy.
One day, we will have a quiet home and be celebrating Valentines Day alone again but until that time Im so glad we're all in it for our kids, for this beautiful phase of life we are blessed with. I love soaking in every single phase with you!
Love you babe! Happy Valentines Day!!
