Valentine Countdown Day 3 and 4

For Day three of showing my love I made him some valentine chex mix that I found via pintrest.  I was so excited to put it in his work truck I forgot to take a pic before I gave it to him , but the recipe filled up a gallon size ziiplock bag.  The recipe found at Betty Crocker website is yum, yum ,tasty.  I did modify adding the new cherry flavored m&m that they have...mmmm

Valentine chex mix...almost all gone

Day 4...since it's Saturday I put this on his work bench in the garage...I figure he'll be out there at some point  working on his boat.

Gummy Bears!

Valentine Count Down Day Two--Spice It Up

Oh come on this isn't THAT kinda site

My hubs-and is the apple of MY eye

inspiration found here
Thank you to:

this idea borrowed and stolen but changed from:

http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2012/01/14-days-of-valentines-with-free.html

February 1st--All You Need Is Love Day 1

left this in his truck so he can find in the morning ;)

this idea borrowed and stolen from:

http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2012/01/14-days-of-valentines-with-free.html

&

http://kimskandykreations.blogspot.com/2012/01/10-valentine-party-food-ideas.html

Valentine's Day Love Station

After seeing several blogs that I came across doing the whole "oh lets have a FUN and crafty Valentines Day!" thing.  I decided that my eternal quest to not be the suckiest mom on the planet must have some part of this.

One of those blogs I found via pintrest.  oh how I love pintrest.  BTW (by the way) I just have to get this out of the way..My name is Melisa and I am a pinholic.

any who back to the whole fun and crafty Valentine's Day thing.  This blog:

http://andersonfamilycrew.blogspot.com/2011/02/emily-did-something-crafty-holla.html

had some really cute mailboxes, and I have been searching for cutie pie mailboxes for a month.  The only thing I could find were some flimsy foam ones at the Walmart.  for $5.  uh I don't think so. I am way to practical to spend $30 on foam.  especially for 15 days a year.  So we and by we I mean I decided to have the kids make their own heart shaped "pockets".  easy peasy!

Step 1:  get 2 sheets pink or red construction paper, fold in half width-wise, and draw half a heart using the fold as the middle of the heart. then cut out the hearts.  easiest if you do both pages at the same time (fold together)

Step 2:  glue the bottom edges of the two hearts together to make a pocket or envelope. We folded down the top layer on ours.

Step 3:  the kids all taped theirs on their bedrooms doors after decorating of course.

happened to have some Valentine's themed containers too

We have gone to a Valentine party with friends every year and give each other gifts at this party so we have a ton of little valentiney things.  Some of it is even child appropriate so I got together what we had in a basket and added some paper, stamps, ink, stickers, etc.  The kids can now make each other daily messages of love and kindness to put in the pockets.  We also had a little lesson on kindness and are "playing" a secret cupid game where they have to do an act of service secretly for someone in the family every day.  There are special hearts for people to fill out for their secret cupid fun.

I used all the leftover Valentine's that the kids have had years past.  Quite the variety: Harry Potter, Narnia, bugs, MonsterTrucks, and more.  Quite funny when I pulled them out my oldest daughter who is at the prime of her tweens practically jumped on the Harry Potter ones.  She has a few friends that are Obsessed with HP, and she is starting in on her teenage crushes too.  Altho she did really like watching Prince Caspian when it came out, and not just for Aslan. ;)

Put a sign above the station to remind us all....

We got this sign as a gift from some friends some years ago

That's what it is all about.