Valentine Highlights

Happy Friday!  We've had a really fun week celebrating Valentine's Day and doing lots of things to love others.  Olive has a four day weekend so you better believe we are all pumped to do our favorite things around town with our favorite girl.  She's so funny and asked to go to her favorite spots - the library for new books, the museum, the bouncin place and see some friends.  Done!  Sounds great to me.

The best parts of our Valentine's Day week were:

Kevin requested chocolate dipped pretzel sticks for his students since he was teaching on Valentine's Day.  They're his favorite treat.  It's become a bit of a tradition for me to send them to work this him this time of year.  I made extras so I could share them with the teachers, police men and administrators at Olive's school.  They turned out really cute!

Handsome Valentines :)

I shared lots of delicious recipes this week!  I've been super motivated to make healthy meals and try new things lately.  You can find all the recipes here:
Healthy Nachos & Homemade Guac

Naan Flatbread Pizzas

 We have had a ton of fun playing with these emoji masks.

Olive loves holidays just as much as I do.  This heart dress was on repeat all week long.

Fletcher learned all about hearts (real and the heart shape) at his science class this week.  

 Olive had two fun events at her school this week.  It's always a treat to see her in her element.

 We made a lot of treats to share this week.  Cupcakes cheers to that!

We had some surprise snow on Sunday morning.  The kids were so excited to play after church!

I was tempted to buy some flowers for myself this week, but I resisted.  I tend to buy house plants more often than fresh flowers because they last longer.  I couldn't believe these tulip bouquets were only $4.89 at Aldi.

Olive worked on her valentines for her classmates.  She LOVED writing out their names.  I was nervous that it would take forever, but it was a lot of fun to assemble them.  Kevin was thinking we should have picked a candy treat to give out.  Olive was sure that a unicorn eraser and scratch art was the way to go.  Turns out she was right.  The kindergartners LOVED them.

We've been doing Hello Fresh regularly.  It's definitely a highlight.  This jalapeno popper burgers were AMAZING.  I love that you can customize the recipes to your spicy tolerances.  My husband really likes spicy things and I just can't handle much spice.  I make the same recipe for both of us and then he adds double the spice to his dish.  SO GOOD!

I was writing out valentines for our family.  Olive took note and headed to her room to make her own valentines for us.  Big kids are so fun!

Are your kids into Beanie Boos??  Mine LOVE them.

Valentine's Day party at school!  It involved a chocolate fountain, passing out valentines, valentine art and everyone had a blast.  I'm super thankful that I can go in for stuff like this.  I love being her room mom and making fun things happen for her friends.  She told me that she's really hoping to get held back at the end of the year because kindergarten is WONDERFUL :)

 Hope you have a great weekend!!

It's time to link up with my favorite blogging buddies for High Five for Friday.  Join us with up to 3 different blog posts and be sure to look around to find some new blog friends.

Becky @  By BMG Blog
Della @ Della Devoted
Tif @ Bright on a Budget
Whitney P @ Come Home for Comfort

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