Happy Valentine's Day & Valentine Olympics

Happy Valentine's Day

We started the day out with pink, heart shaped pancakes.

James surprised me on Valentine's Eve

with these beautiful yellow & red roses.

He knows how much I love flowers.

The girls were excited for their school

Valentine's parties.

Kate & James made this amazing giant tootsie roll

for her Valentine's box....

Abby choose this giant Hershey syrup bottle

from It's Sugar for her Valentine's Box.

They had fun making Valentine's. 

 Abby folded paper airplanes with a pencil inside for her friends.

Abby dipped chocolates for her Valentine's party.

Ella, Lucy & I helped with Kate's Valentine's party.

We brought the game Valentine Twister.

We surprised Lucy with this chocolate makeup kit.

For Dinner we had heart shaped pizza,
and a heart shaped pizzokie.

Then the games began.....
we decided to created a Valentine Olympics...
in honor of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Game #1

The first game, was who could build the tallest

tower out of Reese's and toothpicks.

Kate & I won this with a 10 1/2 inch chocolate tower.

Game #2

For this game, we raced gumballs blowing through

straws.  The best part was Lulu's spit.  

She is still figuring out blowing.  Ha ha!

Game #3
We bought a bunch of candy bars, and everyone
had their name in a hat. We drew names and
then wrote candy bar signs for the person
whose name we drew.

It was really cute to see them read their signs to
eachother.  Lots of laughs.

Game # 4
We played 7-11 or doubles and raced to see who
could eat the most candy bar. This game always brings out
laughter but usually a few tears.  It was a lot of fun though.

We had gold, silver & bronze medals for
all of our awesome Candy Olympians.
It was a fun and memorable Valentine's Day!
I love our family!