A Very Special Valentine!

For the past year I have been homeschooling four of my children. With that being said, between teaching and working with my different children the kids each have some down time during the day. The other day Denver had finally gotten some decent snow. A couple of my children wanted to go outside and play in the snow. How could I refuse them the perfect recess! After being outside for a while one of my children came in to get me. Brennan was sent by Christopher to come get me because he had something to show me. First of all Christopher loves to build in the snow. Whenever we get snow he will spend hours if he can out in the snow building forts and igloos. He has become very good at it I must say. This day was no different. Christopher built his snow cave and it was amazing but he also made something else. I must say that I think it is his best work so far. When I followed Brennan outside I was so suprised at what I saw. Christopher had made several hearts out of snow and carved "MOM" into the snow. It was beautiful! Everyday when I get up I open my back door to see if my statue is still there! It will be very sad for me when the sun melts it away. I am grateful to have a camera that I can keep these memories alive for myself and for my children.

Table Centerpieces

One of my biggest stresses about the reception has been centerpieces for the tables. Especially since I have 40 tables to decorate. I really don't have a budget but I still want to keep this as simple and cheap as I can. I also don't want to end up with a bunch of decorations after the reception. Last night while I was heading off to lala land I remembered watching an episode of "DC Cupcakes". In that episode they made flower pot bouquets. So this morning when I woke up I had to "google" flower pot bouquets! What a simple way to decorate the tables. Plus I was already planning to make cupcakes for the reception but I was having a hard time figuring out how I was going to display 600 cupcakes! I also like the idea that flower pots are cheap! Since I am using daisies as my flower I plan to cut a daisy out of fondant and place it on each cupcake. I can't wait to get started!

Pictures

My husband and I have decided that one thing we want to do for the reception is to have a slide show of our family over the past 15 years. I also want to frame some pictures on a table as decorations. In my family room on my fire place mantel I have done this very same thing. It is really neat to look at all the pictures in the frames of different times in our family's life together. I even have an 8x10 picture of my husband and I at his senior prom. It is very special to me. While I was looking through my many files of photos I came across a picture of the Denver Temple that I don't even remember taking. It was such a neat thing to come across. It gave me such a warm feeling as I thought about the fact that I will be going there someday soon with my family. I had to post this special picture.