Sweet fun!

Valentine's Day has never been our family's favorite holiday, but we do take the opportunity to have a little fun. This year, the fun began with a bag of conversation hearts. I found they were the ultimate incentive for the girls to practice reading. We sat on the couch together and they had to read the word(s) on their heart before they could eat it. Simple game, but it really worked. The next part of the fun was when we read "Guess How Much I Love You" as our story for Preschool on Tuesday, then decorated and ate heart shaped sugar cookies.

The big kids joined in on the cookie part.

The kids were so excited to make their valentines, but didn't believe me when I said that we weren't going to do them until the school room was clean. It took a couple days, but they finally got it done and we enjoyed being crafty together.

Our valentine sayings: "sweeter than apple pie," "smart as a cookie," "you take the cake," "cool as a cucumber," and "orange you cute."

Friday morning, everyone was excited for the upcoming annual homeschool Valentine's party. I put hearts in the girl's hair. They loved it. Not my idea, but really cute!

With raspberry popcorn, 105 total valentines, and who stole my cheese (a game) - we headed to The Party. Here's Krystal and her friend Delaney eagerly waiting their turn for the balloon in the balloon game. There were 29 players, and they were numbers 24 and 25 so they had to be patient, but seem happy enough.

Here is Clarissa with her friends Cailin and Beryl. Cailin and Beryl are a few years older than Clarissa. They used to see her as one of the little kids, but she's just recently being accepted as one of the older kids.

While the other kids where playing games, Amber kept herself entertained up on the stage with Lili (Liam). They were singing and dancing, holding hands, etc. but I couldn't catch that on camera because they were too fast. Here's Amber helping Liam get up, (I'm not so sure that he wanted to get up however).

This was one of the games. Draw a face on a paper bag while wearing it. Even Jared's great artistic abilities couldn't help him with this one.

This one is of Krystal playing the Ha Ha game where you lay on your neighbors tummy and have to say "Ha Ha" without laughing. Hmmm, lets' see...a bunch of little girls all hyped up on sugar, laying on each other, yeah-they laughed.

Our final Valentine's event was when I got a babysitter for the kids, clubbed Chris over the head and dragged him to go see "Anne of Green Gables", the musical, put on by Pulaski County High School. Well, at least he enjoyed the mexican we had for dinner and I enjoyed my night out with my hubby.