Our Posh Valentines Day Party

Since Valentines Day is so close to mine and Garrett's Wedding Anniversary (Feb. 7th), in my mind, I tend to think that we celebrate our anniversary and Valentines Day at the same time, and then I usually try to focus more on my kids for Valentines Day. Sometimes in the past we've gone camping over Valentines day which is fun. This year, I wanted to have a little party for Valentines Day with dinner and a few games.


One of our favorite books is Fancy Nancy. We just love her and read her books over and over. We love the first one where she teaches her family to be fancy and they go out to eat at King's Crown (a pizza place) all gussied up. For a couple of years now, I've wanted to do that with my family, although I knew that they wouldn't be too keen on going anywhere in public dressed up. So, I changed it up a little bit and just had us stay home instead. I gave everyone these invitations in the morning, so that they could think about what they wanted to wear that evening.
I have to say right here that I have the best husband in the world who really supports me and my crazy ideas. He came home early, picked up food for me and best of all, dressed up and had fun with the girls. AND, he brought me red roses and a rose for each of the girls. He's so sweet! Paige and Bella really had a fun time getting dressed up--especially Paige. This was right up her alley. Maggie and Lydia were kind of embarrassed and didn't want to do too much with their outfits. Oh well, they still participated and had fun. We took a few pictures before we ate.

We had a fun time dressing up, but I was wishing that I had more hats, feather boas, play jewelery, etc. We could have gotten really crazy!! Noah is not dressed up just because we put him to bed right after we took the picture.

Here is Bella at our fancy table.

We found a place that sold heart shaped pizzas for our dinner. We also had pink cherry seven-up with a some-what fancy dollar store straw.

I found these yummy cupcakes on a blog called "Ready, set, craft". They are chocolate cupcakes filled with raspberry jam and have a raspberry flavored buttercream frosting (my frosting didn't turn out so well...I'll have to find a better recipe). My favorite part were the chocolate hearts on top. So fun to make. The kids didn't care too much for them...STRANGE...I KNOW, but I sure loved them. I think I ate most of them! :)

After our fancy dinner, we played Valentines Bingo, which I just printed off of another blog that I read. The funnest part was watching Bella play. She was SO excited everytime she found the picture that I called out on her card and so excited to get to put a heart candy on it. She would jump up and down and clap and cry out "I did it!" Watching her so excited made everything worth it! I love being able to share these fun times with my family!

Whenever someone got Bingo, they got a little goody basket with some candy, playdoh, a notepad, a balloon, etc. plus a little coupon book that I made for them. They really enjoyed that. Some of the coupons were, breakfast in bed on a saturday morning, 1 hour of computer time, ice cream at McDonalds, a hug, play a game together, etc.

So this past Saturday, they all wanted breakfast in bed. I was all prepared to get up and make them breakfast, but Garrett got up with Noah, he let me sleep in and then made breakfast for everyone. Isn't he amazing? I sure picked a keeper! Anyways, these are pictures of them eating their breakfast in bed...

We only have one "breakfast in bed tray," so Paige got lucky and got to use it.