Valentine Day - Some ups and downs

Kevin's Joy school had a little Valentines day party.  He took some valentines that Kherington helped make.  We re-used the 'you light up my life' idea from last year and attached a finger light an I wrapped up a box to hold his Valentines.  Pretty cute and easy.

I was really tired the night before and didn't ever finish decorating for Valentines day (I had put out the table cloth a week or so ago).  Kherington was a little disappointed when she woke up that there wasn't any heart attacked room.

We rolled out and cut sugar cookies while Jonathan screamed in the background.  Then I waited until Jonathan was asleep to have them frost.  Just as we sat down to frost, he woke up and started to scream.  So we had more background noise.  Kherington and Kevin both still had a blast.  Kherington is quite the artist.

Kevin really like making piles of sprinkles on top of each of his cookies.

We also made heart-shaped pizza with the same background noise.  I couldn't find my normal dough recipe so I used a different one that I wasn't a huge fan of.  After the pizza was cooked, I cut the hearts up into slices.  The kids liked taking the heart pizza puzzle apart and putting it back together.

Ryan left super early for work and stayed at the office until he left to pick-up his parents at the airport at 10pm (hoping that would make it so he could actually enjoy a work-free while family was in town).  I did my best to make it a fun Valentines day, but it was definitely the lamest one we've had since having kids. By the end of the day, our house was a disaster.  I asked the kids to pick-up their toys while I fed Jonathan (the picture below is just the toy room, but every room in the house was at least that bad plus the kitchen was a disaster from our food fun during the day).  Well, I came our from feeding Jonathan to the house still a disaster, about an inch of water in the bathroom and down the hallway plus a soaked playroom floor.  They found some plastic containers in the playroom closet and had been filling them up and dumping them out in the playroom. I can't think of the last time I was so angry.  I put every single item left out into a couple boxes and put them up in the closet, moved some toys to find some dry carpet to roll their sleeping bags out on in the playroom and left them there.  So much for a fun end to a fun day.  At least reinforcement were on their way into town.