Happy Valentine’s Day! | Mechanicsville Portrait Photographer

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Wow! This day came a lot quicker than I was expecting! I had lots of fun crafts planned for the kids, but time just seems to fly by during the week because we are so busy and sadly, we really didnt do anything Valentine related this year. Well, I cant say that….we did play Valentine BINGO and we made and decorated Valentine cookies, but I always enjoy doing crafty things with them and they just arent into it! 🙁

This day is special to our family for a few reasons. First, today, Jay and I are celebrating our NINE years of marriage!! That doesnt even seem real haha! Where did the past 9 years go?!?! I cannot believe that in 1 year we will have been married for a decade! It just seems so unreal. Jay and I were supposed to have a weekend getaway for our anniversary but unfortunately our plans have changed due to lack of a babysitter. :/ I guess thats just how it goes when you have kids! Oh well, maybe we can start planning something REALLY exciting for our anniversary next year…although Im thinking of an addition to my wedding band lol! A girl can dream right?!!

Second, I LOVE Valentine’s Day! And more importantly, I love celebrating this holiday with Kaleigh and Carter. Today will be filled with lots of fun things like m&m pancakes with pink milk, balloons, flowers, cookies, special notes and treats, Valentine’s Day games(bingo and tic tac toe) and lots of other love related activities. I have always made a trail of hearts leading up to their breakfast in the morning and I know they look forward to that each year. And last, this evening we will go to Nana and Papa’s house to celebrate their anniversary as well. It is their 60th!!! Whoah! So this is a pretty important day for us! I normally try to make a nice meal for our family for dinner(all red and pink related…salmon, pink mashed potatoes..you get the idea) but we are having oven issues so that plan is out of the picture. Instead, we are going to do pizza! This is normally our Pizza Friday meal, but we are switching it up because tomorrow evening we are going out with Nana and Papa for an anniversary dinner. 🙂 I love that we get to share our anniversary together!

Below are some photos that I took a couple of weeks ago! I made the kids the CUTEST valentines this year. Kaleigh wanted to give out bookmarks along with her treats and I made Carter some wallet sized cards. They are at the bottom of the post! I hope everyone has a LOVEly Valentine’s Day! 🙂 XOXO

PIN IMAGE PIN IMAGE PIN IMAGE PIN IMAGE PIN IMAGE PIN IMAGE PIN IMAGE PIN IMAGEI just love these two! PIN IMAGE PIN IMAGEMy little model…. PIN IMAGE PIN IMAGE PIN IMAGE PIN IMAGEAnd my lil’ man… PIN IMAGE PIN IMAGE PIN IMAGE PIN IMAGEAnd below are the valentines the kids handed out to their friends! Kaleigh’s is a bookmark and Carter’s is a wallet sized photo. I LOVE them! 🙂