Valentine's Day

We had a great Valentine's Day this year!

For Isabella's I begged my fantastically brilliant friend Carrie for the valentine's she used last year.

She created these beauties and was kind enough to email them to me.

I'm so in love with them.

Aren't they adorable!?!?

I told you she was brilliant.

She was so pleased to give something she thought was so cute!

For Max we created this sweet little robot.

And Anders got the rocket ship.

They had a great time filling the bags with candy (and stealing a few pieces at the same time.)

Here is he ready to go exchange with all of his friends.

He even included a tissue paper flower he made for his teacher. (His idea -- hee hee!)

Anders with his Valentine box (that we were given 2 days notice that he needed -- grr.)

He did a great job covering it himself and making the flower-flag.

For the teachers we did a repeat of last year.

Boxes of wrapped chocolates.

(Sorry no picture. Click on the link here or here to see all of the info from last year.)

Thanks to another brilliant friend Heidi, we had some custom-made labels this year.

{They were so cute -- I should have taken a picture!}

We had a great day around here as well.

The hubs bought me these BEAUTIFUL two-toned roses.

{This picture doesn't do them justice.}

Then he had the kids make me this other bouquet.

Be still my heart!

I am in love with these!

Thanks to some friends that watched our children, we were able to get away for a nice dinner a few nights before. It was so nice. It was a really great Valentine's Day.

Hope it was a good one for you too!

Happy Valentine's Day!

We hope you and yours had a Happy Valentine's Day!!!

The results...

Here are the photos of how the Valentine chocolates turned out.

They were really easy and fast. The labels printed out beautifully and the kids had a great time wrapping the chocolates and packing the boxes.

{I won't lie. I did steal a few. But, I will also tell you, the kids stole a few as well.
What good is a wrapped chocolate if you can't sneak a little taste?!}

I couldnt' find the DVD holders so I bought small boxes from XPDEX (I LOVE XPDEX.)

Then I wrapped them with cardstock. They turned out pretty cute I think.

The kids had a great time. It was a very satisifying project.
I love it when a plan comes together. {name that movie}

Great Valentine's idea!

I found this cute idea for a simple Valentine's gift.
So cute!!
I think I'll do this for teacher gifts.

So check out all of the instructions and free pdf downloads here!

This clever woman also gives you a link to download the
font for free.
(I love free fonts!)

She has several other ideas and tutorials, so take a look around.

I love creative people!