Valentine's Day

I may have gone a bit overboard on Valentine's Day for Emmett. Especially considering the fact that my husband and I always agree not to celebrate it. I blame it on working Mommy guilt. I may have overdone it, but the look on Emmett's face every time he checked his valentine box was totally worth it. I spent less than $10 on the whole holiday!

Truck Valentine Box

Emmett would check every few hours for new surprises.

One of my favorites was making a monster. The supplies were in his box and he said "We're gonna PAINT!"

He loved gluing all the eyes on the monster.

Worth it!

See the rest of the valentine surprises in part 2!

Valentine's Day Cards

One of my goals for this year is to use the craft supplies that I have. I've had a box of blank cards in the closet for about 6 years now, and I've never had motivation to use them. Then I saw a cute idea for valentines on pinterest, and I remembered these cute pink striped cards with the white strip, ready to go and perfect for this project because it would hide the picture underneath the white strip. I used all supplies that I already had except the photos! Woohoo! I made 15 cards in all for daddy, cousins, grandparents, and great-grandparents. So cute.

The hardest part of this project was getting E to give me his hand to trace. For some reason he decided it was fun to run away every time I tried. The cutting wasn't a problem - I'm a teacher. I'm used to cutting things out in bulk!

Can't wait to get these in the mail!