Happy Valentines Day

How does one family end up with 405 paper hearts in one week?  Sit back and I’ll tell you.


Marc does a lot of volunteer work for our church.  To thank him for all he does for them, the teen aged girls from our ward taped 120 paper hearts to 120 Popsicle sticks and “heart attacked” our lawn.  It was no easy feat either, with the ground frozen, the sticks were only held in place with the thin crust of ice on the thin layer of snow.

The next afternoon the wind knocked them all down.  The kids gathered them up before they blew into the neighbors yards and we taped them along our dining room windows with wide aqua colored painters tape.  It’s a very cute effect.

If that weren't enough hearts, I was in charge of decorations for a missionary zone conference lunch. So there were 80 cupcake toppers with hearts to cut . . .

. . . and 60 more hearts for the tables that looked like big conversation hearts only the sayings were mission oriented and there was a coordinating tongue-in-cheek scripture reference on the reverse side.  My favorites were:

LOCK YOUR HEART (COLOSSIANS 2:21) Touch not; taste not; handle not;

HAPPY SINGLES AWARENESS DAY (PROVERBS 23:17) Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.

RETURN WITH HONOR (PSALMS 101:2) I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

WAIT 4 ME (2 THESSALONIANS 3:5) And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

DEAR JOHN/JANE (PSALMS 112:7) He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.

We are starting to make the Valentines for the kid’s classes.  They are giving little plastic frogs on heart-shaped paper lily pads that say “wishing you a TOAD-ally HOPPY Valentine’s Day”.  So that will be 40 more hearts before we are through.

Monday was the 100th day of school and each 2nd grader brought 100 somethings in a baggie.  So S cut out 100 tiny pink paper hearts.  J brought home the last 5 paper hearts in a paper cup vase from preschool.   And I guess our 405 total doesn’t even include the valentines that the grandmas and Aunt J sent!  Whew!

I'm helping out with the 2nd grade Valentine's Day party and these were our top picks for the crafts/activity.

S liked the cupid arrows best so we are doing that as well as the photo booth (which works out nicely, then boys can shoot their bows towards the hearts instead of blowing kisses in the photo).  It should be fun and I'm glad someone else wanted to take care of the food!

OXOXOX from all of us to all of you!!!