February 1st part

February here and almost gone already!
This is the first time that Julia has become aware of Valentine’s. Every day after school she’d asked me when we were going to put our decorations up. She asked her grandma Smith the same thing.
So finally for Family night we made some hearts that contained the things we love about each other and decorated our kitchen with it. We also made some pink frosted cookies. I have to admit that I am not a big Valentine’s fan. It comes and goes so fast any ways there’s not much time to enjoy it.

Julia had her first Parent teacher conference. I made Spencer come with me. There is just something special about the “firsts”, even if it was something as simple as a preschool conference.
Teacher Britney loves Julia. She told us what we already knew about her personality. That she is very kind and always fair with everybody and that she is a big helper and quite the artist.
Julia has a very broad imagination, which she is passing onto Josh. I hear them play with her little house and the things they tell each other are just so funny. Josh is always the dad and Julia plays different roles.
Anyways the teacher tells me she was asking them questions to make up a story, so the kids filled in the empty spaces.
One night I was: In my bed
When: a Dragon came to wake me up
I said: Dragon I am trying to fall sleep, but kept bothering me
Then: the Dragon took off for a ride
The Dragon name was: mommy
So cute story until the name part right? Spencer made fun of me, but it was a really good story and it all made sense. Reminded me of the sleeping problem she had until about a year ago. Wonder if this is how she dealt with it, by imagining something funny like a dragon visiting her.
After our interview we just felt so proud of our Juls. She has grown so much and is becoming a very smart young girl.
Oh and by the way President Obama I'll have to disagree with your State of the Union Address referring to the next person on Mars. He said it was a 5th grader, I say she is still in Preschool

Valentine’s Day came in a breeze. We were so blessed to have Spencer all for us that day. We went to lunch together to Crown Burgers and after that we visited MY toy store a.k.a.: Lowe’s.
We came home after a delicious lunch and started working on dinner. The kids and I made a heart shaped pepperoni pizza and had pink 7up. The kids were so sweet they set up the table for me.
We had red wine vines for dessert and called it a day.
I was not planning on getting the kids anything for Valentine’s. We had more than enough with the candy that Julia brought from her preschool. But I went to the Dollar store and got them coloring books. My gosh, their smiles were priceless. Spencer got me roses and my favorite treats which included chocolate milk, cream cheese pastries and a bag of Costco’s trail mix. He got Season 6 of the Office. I was tired of watching seasons 1-5 over and over again.
I love my family and they are the ones that make days like February 14th so special.
I have been going crazy this last couple of weeks trying to get Julia’s birthday all planned and ready to go. I always invent my own stuff which is great but it takes me forever to get finished, we’ll see how this turns out