The beginning of Fun February

Shaun had to work a Saturday for ABC 15 so he got to take a 1/2 day during the week so we thought that would be a perfect time to go to the Sea Life Aquarium in AZ Mills Mall. I had bought tickets through Groupon awhile back.....it was a cool place but I wouldn't pay full price which is like $19 per person.

 Ryker has always had a love for ocean animals. They do have lots of cool things to look.

They have these bubble looking things so you can pop your head up in to the huge tank and feel like you are underwater with the creatures. 

They had some pretty big sharks in their biggest tank. That was Ryker's favorite part.

The jellyfish

Rigatoni slept the whole time and woke up at the end.

I gave Ryker a few options on Valentines Day cards and he choose the "Love-bot". They turned out super cute but took alot of time and work. Ryker and I worked on them a little each day over a couple of days. Ryker is a busy boy so I'm constantly trying to come up with different things for him to do, so this was fun mother-son time.

In the middle, the robots body is a piece of chocolate. I didn't come up with this on my own....I saw it on another blog.

Ryker's basketball coach works at Desert Ridge Highschool, so he asked if we would bring our team so they can play a little game against each other for the half time show. The crowd just loved them. They were so cute and it was so much fun to see them try and make shots to the high hoop (they play on a lower hoop).  Ryker is #5...he picked that number of course because he is 5 years old.

I finished the quilt top to for Amelia's soon to be big girl bed. I love it!!  I can't wait to get it quilted and then add the ruffle edging. I will post the finished product when it gets done. I LOVE quilting....I wish it weren't so darn expensive. I want to one day, be add to work that huge quilting machine and do it myself =)

Happy pre-Valentines day Sunday. Amelia all pretty in pink.

The big day is here. The night before I had the table set for breakfast and their little goodies with cards out. I also heart-attacked their rooms and some of the house.

Ryker with his Valentines goodness.

Millie and her good morning cheesy smile. (Riggy was still sleeping so no pictures of him-sad)

Our pink heart-shaped pancakes.

For Ryker's class party we did centers again. That is what the teacher likes best to keep things running smoothly. So the first center was a math dice game. They had to roll their dice and add it up then color in the heart with the number from their addition problem. They really liked it.

second station was making a Love-bug. I had the wings and body already cut out and glued together so they got to add foam sticker hearts, googly eyes and an antenna. 

Third was a cookie decorating station. Always a favorite. Then for the next station they got to eat their cookie and read Valentines books.

Then their was a memory game. I found little objects that were red or pink. Then each child got a turn to take an object away and the others had to figure out what it was.

Ryker wanted me to take 2 pictures......this is his face because he had girly valentines

Then a happy face for the boy ones. He is such a goofball =)