Valentine's Day 2016

Today is Valentine's Day and the festivities have been going on for several days now.  It all started last weekend with making our valentines for school.  This year, Merrick went for a Star Wars theme (shocker) and C.C. had an elephant valentine to go with the mini bubbles she passed out.  I think they both turned out cute if I do say so myself.

As for today, we started the day with our traditional "love hunt".  Those of you who read the blog regularly are probably familiar with what we do, but for those who aren't, each year we plan a scavenger hunt for the kids where at each stop they find candy and a note telling them something we love about them.  At the end of the hunt they find a small gift.  This year the clues where accompanied by caramel kisses and in the end Merrick got a set of 10 board games and C.C. got a Doc McStuffins puzzle and a Sophia the First Book.  This biggest change for this year's hunt is that this is the first year Merrick was able to more or less read the clues on his own (yay!!!).

Because the way to my family's heart is through food, I made homemade soft pretzels (they were really good for my first ever attempt) and cheese sauce for lunch today and this evening we are going to Ben and Becca's house for dinner, games, and strawberry cupid floats.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!