Our Valentine's weekend was jam packed and I'm so exhausted today! I wanted to play hooky from work and veg out on the couch all day, but I have a big meeting this afternoon that I can't miss. Plus, who can really veg out on a couch all day with an almost 2 year old?!?
This picture is horrible. It's blurry and you can barely tell what's going on, but I love it. I love that Kimber wants to give all the kids at daycare a hug & a kiss when she leaves every day. The older boys usually turn their head and let her kiss them on the cheeks. The older girls give her a big hug & kiss. She gives Baby Brayden a kiss on the head. Her & Paul {he's 2 months older} lean in and give smooches - it's cute now but maybe not in a couple of years!
And then there is Roma, her best friend. They could hug & kiss on each other all day long. And sometimes they do! The first thing Kimber does when we get to daycare is find Roma and give her a hug & kiss and it's the last thing she does when we leave. I love the bond that these two have. It make my mama heart so happy to see.
After we got home from work/daycare on Friday night, Papa came to pick up Kimber so she could stay the night at their house. While Nick took a shower & got ready, I made up a few of Kimber's valentine's to hand out to her cousins the next day.
We had a wild & crazy Friday night. We ran to Walmart to grab birthday gifts and went out to eat at Babe's. We left Babe's around 8:45pm,decided to grab beer and surprise Reece & Kelli at their house. We hadn't hung out for awhile, so it was fun to catch up with them! We left around midnight and I was so tired - I could barely keep my eyes open on the way home!
When we walked into Walmart, I saw this display of Kinky and had to take a picture to send to my college girlfriends. We have an inside joke about this stuff. Three years ago when we had a girls weekend and had been drinking wine all night, Sarah said her mom bought her wine spritzer for her birthday so we started drinking it at midnight...and we were all getting wasted. Turns out, Kinky is not a wine spritzer but VODKA! We were all feeling it the next day!!
Nick & I aren't huge Valentine's people. There's been a few years that one of us has gotten a gift for the other, but that's usually when we said we weren't doing Christmas gifts for each other and one gets a nice gift for the other. So we feel obligated to get a nice gift for Valentine's Day to make up for it! This year, I told him the trip to Jamaica is our gift to each other and we didn't even bother with cards for each other.
Even though we're not big valentine's people, I wanted to get something little for Kimber. I picked up some coloring books, crayons, stickers, candy, a dress and an apron for her gift.
On Saturday morning, we went to Gramma & Papa's to pick up Kimber, give her the gift and give Abey & Chloe their valentines.
The coloring books & crayons were a big hit.
We all sat on the floor and colored together for a few hours.
After we left Gramma & Papa's house we ran into town to get groceries {while Kimber took a nap in the car} and went out to eat for lunch. By the time we got home, we only had 45 minutes to wrap birthday gifts, shower & get all three of us ready before we had to head out the door for a birthday party.
I decided it was easier to throw on a hat than to try to fix my hair!
Kimber wore her new Valentine's dress and picked out her mudders to wear with her dress! While Daddy was getting ready, I took a couple pictures of Kimber with my fancy camera.
After running around the house trying to getting ready so fast, I was pretty excited that we were only 10 minutes late for the birthday party!
Kimber had the first celebrity siting of her life when she saw Elsa at the party. It was fun to watch all the little girls - they were so excited to see Elsa! Kimber didn't care about her, she sat down while she was reading a story for about one minute and then was back to running around the room playing with balloons. In Kimber's world, balloons are way more exciting than Elsa!
After the party, Kimber took a nap and I tried to get some cleaning done around the house. Saturday night, we meet a group of family & friends to make pizza and hang out with the kids. It's always fun to get the kiddos together and see them play together.
With such a crazy schedule on Saturday and all the sugar she consumed, Kimber didn't sleep well on Saturday night and ended up in our bed. We never put her in bed with us, but after being awake with her for over an hour Nick decided he would do anything to get her to sleep. She woke up about 5:30am, so we got her some milk and she fell back to sleep until 8:45 when we woke her up to get ready for church.
Sunday marked three years since my mom passed away. Some days, I can't believe it's already been three years and other days, it feels like it just happened yesterday. The death of my mom impacted me when she passed away, but now that I am a mom myself, I think it impacts me even more. I want to ask her questions about how I was as a baby/toddler. Ask her advice on mom type things. And I'd love to see her hold my sweet baby girl. It makes me sad that Kimber will never know her Gramma Connie. She would have loved her. Gotten on the floor and played with her and acted goofy with all the other kids.
This is the only 1 of 2 pictures I have of me when I was younger. And the only one I have of me & my mom. This may be the reason I over compensate with 100 pictures a day of Kimber now! I posted this picture to Facebook and some people comments that Kimber looks like me when I was little. That makes me so happy! I hear "she looks just like her Daddy" all the time, so it's nice to hear that she looks like me too!
After church and dinner with the family, we went home to put Kimber down for a nap. She was more interested in putting her new apron on and playing with her kitchen set though!
As much as I wanted to take a nap, I had signed up for a Pampered Chef Frozen meal making party for Sunday afternoon. It was a great time hanging out with the girls, drinking wine and making 12+ freezer meals!
The party took four hours and I didn't get home until 7:30. I was SO ready for bed at this point, but still had to finish up Kimber's valentine's for her daycare party on Monday. I worked on her valentine's while watching The Bachelor, coloring with Kimber and helping Nick with tax questions.
I decided to go with applesauce for her valentine's this year since the kids at her daycare range in age from 7ish months to 7+ years. Oh, and it was super easy. Thanks, Pinterest!
We finally fell into bed around 11:00pm and were out in no time. And luckily Kimber slept through the night!!! Let's hope that continues this week while Nick is on his snowmobile trip!
