Valentines Day!

This year Valentines Day was a lot more fun. Kaydence has been anticipating the event for several weeks now, since I bought her and Maddie cute little Valentines bags with all sorts of goodies in them. I decided since I had to work Valentines morning that I would get up about ten minutes earlier ( I have to work at 6 am so ten minutes is a lot! :)). I prepared the day before cutting out hearts and blowing up balloons. I was excited to decorated our living room because this was something I did for Josh when we were dating. I taped the hearts on ribbon and hung then from the ceiling. I also wrote reason why I loved Josh and Kaydence on every heart I hung up. I put their Valentines gifts on the couch and spread hearts and chocolate kisses up the stairs to their rooms. About 9 am I received a call at work saying how much Kaydence loved the hearts and had to have Josh read everyone. I also got a picture on my phone of her playing with her Valentines stickers, she loves stickers. They both loved their presents and were very happy with the decorations.

I also wanted to do something fun with the kids at work. Since it was Valentines Day and it was also my 5 year anniversary of working at the Christmas Box House, wow I feel old. Anyway I had so many ideas and since we have been so low on kids I figured we could have an action packed day. Well when I went into work on Thursday we ended up having 21 kids! Now 6 months ago this was nothing to us, it was normal everyday event to have at least this many children, but since November if we had 10 kids we were high. Now having 21 children is a good thing, not that I am pro abuse or anything, don't get me wrong. The fact is that people don't stop doing drugs or abusing their children over night, so I knew when we were not getting children in that it was not a good sign. So my plans had to be changed around a bit. I found a really cute bingo game online and made enough cards for all the kids. Kaydence and I went shopping the day before to get all the goods I needed for our day. We played Valentines bingo with conversation hearts as markers. I also brought strawberries and we dipped them in chocolate. It wasn't a lot but it brought the kids a little bit of fun on Valentines day and helped show them how much we cared.

While at work Josh had called and talked to one of my co workers to inform her that he had something coming for me and she could not let me leave at 2 when my shift ended. So I waited around till 3. I was a little impatient because I have been awake since 4:45 am and I was missing my Saturday nap with Kaydence. Finally at 3:30 pm Josh called and told me to come home that my gift was being delivered to our house instead. Well 5 pm rolled around and still no gift. Josh called again and they told him that they missed me at my work. Josh was upset and told them thats because I told you to bring it to my house. SO finally at 6:15 pm they arrived with my delicious chocolate covered fruit bouquet. It was so yummy! All three of us ate quite a few strawberries and grapes. My sweet husband also got me a new shirt and a really cute sweater. We decided earlier in the week since Josh actually had his first Valentines off in who knows how long, that we would just spend the night at home. I know we are so exciting. With Josh working in the food industry he knows how crazy Valentines is and it was not worth going out to fight the crowds. Plus we thought this would give our parents to opportunity to go out and not baby sit, but that didn't happen either. So we cuddled up with pizza, a fire and watched Horton Hears a Who with Kaydence, which she loved. All in all after a very long day with an early rise and no nap it was great to spend time with the two people I love the most in my life, we had a very wonderful Valentines Day.

p.s. I will try to add pictures soon

Our ice skating adventure!

Well about two weeks ago Josh and I decided to try and take Kaydence ice skating. She has been obsessed with Mickey's Twice upon a Christmas, Daisy and Minnie ice skate at the beginning of the show. We recorded this at Christmas time and it is still a big hit in February for Kaydence. I can now tell you a play by play of the show. Anyway, she has continually ice skated around the house for months now. We went up to the ice sheet on a Saturday night with everyone else in Weber county. Kaydence could not wait to get out on the ice, the funny thing was that she could not even stand up on the ice. Yet, she insisted that she could do it by herself. We started out with her bike helmet on, which did not stay on very well so we ended up taking it off. Josh had to hold her under her arms the entire time out on the ice, she would just giggle. Josh had to hold her because I was holding onto the side so I would not fall down, I am far from graceful. It was a fun experience and a great laugh to watch her, we left with great memories and a back ache!