Valentines Preparations

Jane has been very excited about her Valentine's party at school for a couple of weeks and now that it was almost here I was REALLY hoping for her sake that there would be school on Thursday so she could go to it.

On Wednesday night she had a very special playdate with her cousin Kylie (though somehow I didn't take any pictures- what is wrong with me?) Anyway, we had a great visit with Aunt Kerri and Kylie. Then, after they left it was Valentine's preparations until 9:30 p.m.

First, Jane and I made sugar cookies and died them red and cut out hearts...

Then, once they were in the oven we started on Jane's Valentine's bags for her class. Jane helped me stuff them with candy. Then we took the cookies out of the oven to cool. I should have taken a picture of the cookie sheet after I got it out of the oven because up until that point I thought we might send them to school with Jane but after I got them out of the oven I quickly realized that was not going to happen. They had all baked together and looked pretty bad. I was able to salvage them by cutting them into hearts but not enough for her to take to class. Oh well, more for us at home ;)

Then we made all of Jane's valentines. I cut out some rectangles from Valentine's paper with scalloped scissors and then Jane helped me write who they were for. I had her write the first letter of each kids' name and the first letter of her name on each one and I wrote the rest. Then, she put on some heart stickers and each one of them.

Jill decided to write some valentine cards too except she forgot to take the cap off the sharpie- oh well.

After Jill went to bed Jane iced all of the cookies and decorated them with sprinkles.

All in all very fun and exhausting and I think maybe next year we will do cookies and bags and valentines all on different days!