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love is sweet (valentine’s day video)

It’s almost Valentine’s Day! I think it’s safe to say that for the most part, people usually love or hate Valentine’s Day. I say that, but I don’t fit into either category. We don’t go out on Valentine’s Day–who wants to deal with the crowds anyway! And we don’t do gifts. (Although, if he wants to buy me chocolate or ice cream, I won’t object 😉 hint, hint) But I do love spending the days leading up to Valentine’s Day by making it special for the kids–cutting their peanut butter and jelly sandwiches into hearts (which has turned into a year round event), using pink food coloring in all kinds of stuff, and just throwing in as much of the pink/red/heart stuff as possible.

This past week, I learned about Personal Capital. They’re a company all about helping people better manage their money with free financial tools and wanted to raise awareness about how to make someone feel special without breaking the bank. This is not a sponsored post but I did think it would be fun to join in because that’s exactly what we already aim to do–show our love without spending a ton of money to do it.

I asked the kids what they thought about making cookies and Valentine’s cards for their BFFs and making a little video about it. They were super excited. What they loved best of all is that the video was going to show them doing everything “all by themselves.” And minus needing my help to measure a few things, they really did do it by themselves.

So hopefully this video shows you that you don’t need to spend a lot of money to make someone feel loved. Sometimes all it takes is a little thought and sugar 😉

(The music in the video is by my super talented husband, Don Roberts)

February 12, 2016

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February iPhone photos (part 1)

Have I mentioned my desire to be somewhere warm and beachy? If so, I think it’s worth mentioning again. I love the look of snow…but that’s pretty much where any degree of my love for winter ends.

Don went out this afternoon…one of those last minute crazy people fighting the crowds at Walmart. But the snow has been coming down steadily and the item he needed to buy was kind of important. Anyway, by the time he gets home, there are multiple cars stuck in the snow along our street. Things didn’t get any better when his car also got stuck in the middle of the street…right in front of our house. Ironically, the item he went out to buy was a shovel. Thankfully we have the best neighbors in the world. They were able to push him along to get out of the middle of the street. Now I’m just praying the roads are a little better as he drives to work tonight and home in the morning. (**before I finished writing this, he was able to make it safely to work…though the roads were pretty horrible)

I may not have pulled my dslr out very much lately but I did pull out my iPhone on plenty of occasions. So many occasions, in fact, that I’m going to break up this month’s pictures over two posts. I know–what a thrilling thought!

You may have thought (hoped) I was done with pictures from my photoshoot with Rachel a few weeks back. I’m not. But maybe after this post?

those smiles make me smile

I know I’ve posted this one already. But it needs an encore. Someone in this picture needed a nap and didn’t like that I wouldn’t let her hold my phone.

the week before Valentine’s Day gets overloaded with everything heart-shaped and pink

**before

**and after

homemade nutella/hershey’s poptarts for Valentine’s breakfast

this face is almost too much to handle

We were able to go out the night before Valentine’s Day because of some very “Loving” girls who watched a whole army of kids at church that night. My idea of a fun night out is to go thrifting. Thankfully my husband agreed. But I had to laugh as I found myself in the fitting room a few times that evening as he waited on me.

and ice cream at Ginny’s is a must

The rest of that weekend we were able to relax at home while the kids were away. But I did force Don to go outside to take a few pictures together in the snow.

This snow storm is a little less relaxing with the kids at home. But if all goes as planned, tomorrow should be a fun day of playing in the snow and eating homemade ice cream and snow cones! And I really wouldn’t have it any other way.

February 28, 2015