Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Valentines Day 2011

A Happy Valentines Day at Woodberry Forest...Since our playgroup meets every week and we had such a festive fun group of kids we decided to have our first valentines exchange of cards and goodies. Harper and I decided it would be fun to make a valentines box to collect and share our goodies in. We used all our old catalogs, stencils, stickers and tissue paper and this was our final outcome. Not too bad for our first time. We loved painting with glue, she wants to decoupage everything!We signed all our "Olivia" valentines and filled little goodie bags for everyone to enjoy and piled them all in our box all ready for our playdate.For our Valentines trade we decided to make rice krispie sweethearts...we had to taste them while working so hard to make them. The booty of cookies and treats that we recieved at the party. They were all soooo delicious, mom and dad enjoyed them more than Harper :(
Harper still is using her box and pulling out all her Valentines that everyone made, they were all so cute. The party was a great hit with the kids and the parents. We all love a reason to celebrate. I put together some Valentines treats for all my sweeties to wake-up to. This was one of the fondest memories of my childhood, my mom would always surprise us with the best little treats for all little holidays. Harper sporting her new hat and mittens...hopefully we will be able to use them next year too!

A Valentines Day romp at the playground.
On this warmer but still brisk day Reiss worked hard keeping her toys warm.
Somebody likes to swing!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Saturday = Family Fun Day

Since we have moved back to Virginia we like to make frequent trips to Richmond, one because we love it but also because we are close enough in proximity that we kept all of our old haunts...dentist, dog groomer and hairdresser. One Saturday Watson had a haircut so we ventured to Richmond for the day and decided to fill our time with the Richmond Children's Museum. The girls and I have been there before but this time Hunt came along...yeah!

Harper LOVED the water exhibit.
I think she would have played for hours...and hours.
We are having so much fun!
Happy girls!
Arts and crafts with dad...both working so contently.
Look what we made...! A WATSON DOG!

Look like anyone? We love our Watson puppet.