Happy {HEART} Day!

Ahhh....Valentines Day.....with boys.  Gotta love it.  They are soooo not into the love stuff.  But it's fun to tease them about girls and valentines.

So here's what the boys decided to give out at school for their valentines this year.  Thanks in part to Pinterest for the worms and minecraft.  I totally made up W's valentines this year.  He wanted to give out Nerds and frankly....there's not a lot out there for that candy.  

 This was the first year one of my kids needed a valentine box.  W came home and said he needed to make a cool valentine box - one kid had a minion.  Mind you this was Tues before the party Friday.  So....W looked on Pinterest and found a cool tank he liked.  Next day, I went to Michaels and got some cool camo duct tape and wha-la.....here's our creation.  Turned out really cool!

 Here's what S & I got the boys this year.  These Kendama things are all the rage amongst 4th grade boys here.  It's actually pretty cool and fun and beats video game stuff.  It's all about hand/eye coordination.  We got these for W and T.  Little bit, C, got a cool Mario mystery block pillow that makes the sound.  Gotta love a kid who is Mario obsessed!

 My Valentine was the most expensive valentine gift to date.  I was allowed to take advantage of the President's Day Sale weekend and order new appliances for our kitchen.

Ahhhhh....how romantic.  BUT....much needed so S is off the "romance, sweep me off my feet" hook.  My oven door keeps falling off and it just so happens that yesterday my fridge decided to go kaput.  Thank goodness new one comes tomorrow!

For our romantic dinner out, we loaded up and went to Qdoba.  Where else do you go with these 3 on Valentines Day night?!?!  It was yummy all the same.  

Afterward we tried to go to my favorite gelato place but it was closed for the night (what?!?!) so we ended up with frozen yogurt.

I love my boys and I love my hubby!  Who needs one day a year to celebrate that?!?!

Ice Fishing

On our quest to embrace Minnesota, we decided to try our hand at ice fishing.  The parks and recreation department in Lakeville has really great classes offered to kids.  I signed W up for a class on ice fishing.  It was a Sat morning full of information and how to and some good information on ice and lakes here.  S took W and stayed so he could hear all the information.  (haha).  The class was sponsored by Cabela's and the kids received all kinds of stuff - a rod and reel, a tackle box with tackle, $10 to Cabela's and a resource book for ice fishing.  W ended up knowing quite a few kids in the class from school.  Always a plus.  And before you ask....T couldn't go because it was for 3rd graders and up.

Well, this weekend, the city had their annual Youth Ice Fishing Contest.  We decided that would be the best way to try out our ice fishing skills.  There's no way we could just go out on our own and do this new sport.  So, we bought a couple of rod and reels and we were on our way.  

There were a lot of families out on the lake and all the holes were predrilled (thank goodness....that is probably the biggest obstacle of trying this on your own).    Take a look into that hole and you can tell the ice is about 7-8 inches thick.

 We knew what to do thanks to the class S and W went to the prior weekend. 

This one is our fisherman.  He was bound and determined he was gonna catch one.

 He can even multi-task....fishing while drinking hot cocoa.  LOL!

This one cracked us up....he was soooo not into fishing.  But acting silly the whole time.  

In the end.....we didn't catch anything.  I don't think much was caught during the entire contest.  

Oh well, maybe next time.....