For the LOVE!

The month of February is one of our favorites! I enjoy celebrating our love for each other! This is our second year using our cute little personalized mailboxes for "love notes" for each other. We also love Valentine's Day! Getting creative making v-day boxes is oh, so fun! Here are some highlights from our Love month so far!

We started out with a Family Home Evening on Love reading scriptures and talking about how we can show love to others. We played a game with my lip pillows. We said, "I love Mama because she is a good cook" and then we would throw the pillow to that person and they would take a turn and say something they loved about another family member and so on for as long as they wanted or until it became too silly! Briel said she loved Papa because he slept in his own bed!

In another FHE lesson, we made each person a love wreath with cut out construction paper hearts. On the hearts we wrote why we loved that person. Each person collected their hearts and glued them onto their cut-out paper plate wreath form, added some ribbon, and hung them in their rooms!

Briel assembling her wreath...somehow she managed to strip off all her clothes before we were finished with our project!

Her finished product.

Zaquel hamming it up with his wreath.

Isabel with her wreath.




Isabel with her i-pod valentine box. Get the info to make your own at Family Fun.

She made a mini version for her classmates with conversation heart in a box and Reeses peanut butter cups for the ear buds. Apparently, they were a hit!

Zaquel and I made his own version of the "super hero" valentines floating around blogland. I liked his because we actually used the real logos of the super heroes. Here is a free printable version.
Briel wanted a picture too...when she starts school she will have her own valentines...or so that is what she tell us! ;)

We also love giving valentines to our friends. Here is one Zaquel gave to his friend Collin. It says, "You are the best friend to Collin from Zaquel. He went and did this on his own with no help from me! I just think it is so adorable! You have to know that Collin is 15 and has babysat for us many, many times! He is so great to include Zaquel in whatever he is doing! He goes out of his way to say "Hi" to him and make him feel important! We love you Collin!

Hope you are having a great love month!