I love little holidays! I feel like it is so good to have a day where, for no practical reason, you just do things a little special! (Is special an adverb?) I also love any reason to dress up my cuties and decorate the table! So Valentine’s Day is just fun for me!
Also, I have been taking this photography class, and I thought festive photos were a great way to get in some extra practice. I had a little photoshoot with my kids in their Valentine’s outfits and invited my sister to bring her adorable baby, Daniel, to join. Not a ton of the pictures turned out great; but here are some decent ones.
This picture was just so cute of everybody else that I sort of let Portia be a casualty. But she was happy and adorable as usual; I just managed to miss it. And I couldn’t pass up Daniel’s smile.
Fay is getting to be such a beautiful grown-up girl! I’m so glad she’s mine!
I got lots of pictures of Carter smiling. But this was his very favorite pose to strike. Plus, it kind of shows his personality a little more. I love my Cute-o!
Portia made herself a casualty in another way because as soon as we were done with the group pictures; she high-tailed it out of there to go eat the pizza Grandmother had brought. I promise we love her just as much as the other two; she just loved pizza more than getting photographed.
Eek! He’s such a cutie!
We did the photoshoot last week; but on Valentine’s Day itself we did the real celebrating!
I decorated the table for breakfast, and we had festive foods! I think it is an extra bit of fun for the kids to wake up to special stuff. They all seemed quite excited about Valentine’s breakfast. 🙂
The table all ready the night before.
I don’t think there is anything cuter than donuts on a cake-stand. Plus, donuts are delicious! (I took them out for the picture but then kept them in their box over night.)
We had heart oatmeal. It was just normal oatmeal with pureed strawberries put in a heat cookie cutter. But I felt like they added to the love of the day.
We have had a tradition of giving the kids each a balloon on Valentine’s Day for the past 4ish years. Josh gets these cool style ones which the kids love!
See! What’s not to love about Valentine’s Day?! I am also pleased to report that I am more in love than ever with my Valentine! Josh really is so good and he is rather effortless to adore and cherish! I wish I had a good recent picture of him to show; but I have mostly focused on the kids. 🙁 I will have to repent and get more pictures of him and me on here.
Aaah! I LOVE the pictures of Baby Daniel!!! The one with all the kids is so cute! Thanks for setting up the festive background and inviting us over! It was so funny when you looked around for Portia to take her picture but she had already moved on to the pizza—she wasn’t messing around 🙂
I like the tradition of getting all the kids a balloon for Valentine’s Day. What a fun idea!