The Celebrate Valentine's Day

We gave the girls roses for Valentine's Day and T got chocolates. We also took them to the zoo and out to lunch.

We love to have fun on holidays! Now President's Day will probably go by without a fuss, but Valentines Day we do enjoy. My husband and I don't really give gifts to each other for holidays other than birthdays and Christmas. We do little things for each other at random times through out the year and believe that the randomness of it, makes it more special than some arbitrary date on the calendar each year, though occasional we do go out for our anniversary, but since it is so close to Christmas that is usually rare also.  Valentine's Day is more for the kids. They make each other and us wonderful little cards and sometimes include a little something from the dollar store. They get really excited about being able to do something nice for their family. I do not give them any money. They have to spend their allowance if they want to purchase something. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. It's up to them. We take the day off and either play games and have a party if it's cold or in this case since it was nice outside, we went to the little zoo in Gainesville, which is about 30 minutes away. We had so much fun and it was about 75 and after such a long stretch of super cold weather, all the animals were out and actively enjoying the warmth. We couldn't have picked a better day to go, especially since highs are back into the 40's again.

L surprised us with decorations and biscotti she had made. Yummy!

She also made Valentine themed games for us to play. She worked hard!

Heart shaped pancakes are harder to make than you think.

The Frank Buck Zoo

It was such a nice day.

I think the statue is the nose of a wolf, not sure.

So Big!

The prairie dogs were like big hamsters.

Looking at the alligator.

We fed the goats for awhile....while I repeatedly said we were NOT getting any!

The lemurs

A playing giraffe.

A is way taller than the sign.

What do we do while waiting at the eye doctor?

Apparently play toddler games and read the Bible.

10 minutes later.

15 minutes later, we move to having the youngest read books to the oldest.

Finally back home and enjoying L's hard work.

We still have not been able to take the new trailer out. It has still been below freezing at night so we can't de-winterize it yet. Hopefully in the next two weeks, it will be warm enough to take it out. However, volleyball starts soon so we might not have time. Oh, such is the busy life with kids. We still plan on a two week trip sometime in May, so hopefully everything works well. We also have a scouting trip in April for a weekend so that will also help us assess any issues before we are gone too long.