{Uncle Scott} Visit!

My Uncle Scott came to visit us for a long weekend and we even got an extra day with him thanks to the winter storm in the midwest!!!  Snowing like crazy in the midwest made us want to spend a little time at the beach on Sunday when it was 65 and sunny here!!!  We headed to lunch 1st on the Riverwalk, then off to tour the USS North Carolina Battleship!  If you are into history, definatly worth seeing!  Then we went out to the beach!  We had fun all weekend long with Uncle Scott, but the trip was defintaly my favorite memory!  We miss him already!

Camden with his battleship notebook (which used to be our chemical reaction notebook and before that was our Star Wars draawings and before that it was....)  He drew battleships all the way from Apex to Wilmington then all the way home!  It's his newest love!

The Riverwalk in Wilmington!

Sitting in the lunch room in the Lower Deck!

Camden talking Uncle Scott's ear off about different Battleshiips he's drawn and all of his new drawing ideas!

Bocci ball on the beach is so much fun!

 

Football, anyone!

{Valentine's Day Weekend} At The Beach!

Scott suprised me with a trip to the beach on Valentine's Day!!!  Which also means a new Kate Spade BAG!!!  It was a trip like no other trip we have ever taken to the beach ~ it SNOWED at night and we got to play in the snow...on the beach...all morning!!!  Here's the story...

We had just gotten to the beach and our friends back home sent us a picture of their child in the snow with the message, "Wish you were here!"  We thought they were in the mountains.  They sent the next picture of our house COVERED in snow!  We couldn't believe it!  It was sunny and 55 at the beach...for the 1st hour we were there.  Then the temps dropped 20 degrees and the clouds rolled in.  Later that night after the kids were in bed, Scott and I were talking, listening to the ocean...and it started snowing at the BEACH!  This was definatly a 1st for us!  It made our trip so special and different than any other time we have been there!

We had to cut our trip short because Bexley got sick (...in our new car) the 1st night we were there!  We were so bummed, but when we got home there was a cute snowman waiting for us!  (A sweet gift from our friends!)

Our view from our condo!

The snow coming down over the ocean and resort pool!

Playing for the snow on the beach for the 1st

{Happy Valentine's Day!}

Happy Valentine's Day!  It is one of my most favorite days to celebrate not only with Scott, but it is so much fun with kids!!!  Camden and Bexley have really gotten into it this year.  On Tuesday, Camden woke me up and said, "YAY!  Today is Valentine's Day!"...he knew it was Tuesday and NOT Vday, but believed if he said it then it would be true!  Tuesday was a great day because when I got home that evening from a PTA Meeting, Bexley blurted that while I was gone they made "a sweet card for me!"  (I love when they do that!  The making of the card, but also telling me what surprise Scott is planning!)

We started our morning with pink, heart pancakes and milk with red, heart ice cubes (of course) and Scott got his quiche (which he loves)for breakfast!  We were also able to celebrate with our good friend, Matt who was in town on business (extra bonus)!  Then we spent the day at Camden's school for a Valentine's Day Party Valentine's Day Learning Experience, we ate lunch with Camden and then Bexley and I did a little shopping!

Scott and I celebrated by going to one of our favorite restaurants AN.  What did Scott get me you ask?  You'll have to wait because it will be another post in itself...one hint, it includes the beach and a new Kate Spade bag!  (I'm feel like such a lucky girl!!!)

My present to Scott...6mths of Date Night Ideas with gift cards!  I'm sure I'll be posting pics of  these as we go on our dates!

A card from Camden to me.  You can't see it, but he wrote, "I love you Mom and you are so so fun and because you are so crafty!"  All written by himself until he asked Scott to spell "because!"



Heart pancakes for breakfast and milk with heart ice cubes!

A sweet card from our Bexley!

Something new I found on Pinterest!  Place compliment hearts on their doors for your children to see when they wake up!  Bexley and Camden loved it!

Bexley with her Valentine's from her class!

...and Camden with all of his Valentines!

Heart pizza for Cam and Bex and our awesome babysitter Kelsey!

The "HeartBreaker and Valentine Princess!"

Our Date Night!!!! I love this pic because I was laughing so hard because I almost dropped the camera (which is super precious to me).  I, however, was really calm...Scott, however, almost fainted!

{Valentine's Day} Gifts to Friends!

Just wanted to share our Valentine's to our friends and sweet teachers!!!

Teachers, babysitter, and coach gift!



Camden's class Valentine's ~ Paratroopers!

Bexley's class Valentine's!!!



Our music, art, technology, drama, gym, and librarian gifts!

{Valentine's Day Week} Activites

February 1st we start one of our Valentine's Traditions ~ special activities every day on our Valentine's Countdown Calendar!!!  We love it!  We do anything simple from baking cookies to dressing up for dinner or the best one yet...dessert BEFORE dinner!  It's something our kids really love and look forward too every morning!

Bexley showing her necklace for "Make A Valentine's Day Necklace" night!

Camden wanted to write special messages on all of his hearts!!!

{Valentine's Decor}

I love, love, love Valentine's Day!  And I love, love, love decorating for it!  Christmas is always so big, but then you have the whole month of January to relax and get your house back in order from the holidays!  I am always ready by Feb 1 to start decorating again!

Our Valentine's Envelopes ready for the morning...A Valentine's week tradition.  Every morning when the kids wake up they find a sweet treat, small present or a cute note in their envelope!  This is a Camden & Bexley favorite!!!

{A Valentine Heart for} Kitty!

Kitty had to get in his carrier this morning to go to his hair stylist for a haircut!  Camden saw us getting him in there and saw how much Kitty dislikes it.  As we were getting ready to leave I noticed a red heart on Kitty's carrier.  I asked Camden what it was...he said he made it out of a pipe cleaner and wanted it there to make Kitty feel better at his hair cut!  Too cute and perfect for a Valentine's Day Post!

{National Pancake}Day!

Today was National Pancake Day!  So of course we had to have pancakes this morning with sprinkles!!!  Actually, we act like it's National Pancake Day at our house everyday ~ it's the MOST requested breakfast item every morning!!!  Happy Pancake Day!

{Camden's 100th Day Of} School!

We have learned so many things since Camden started Kindergarten...room mom duties, LetterLand parades, and now we are celebrating 100 days in school!  I never celebrated 100 days at school back in 1984, nor when I got the letter from Camden's teacher did I even know what she meant by celebrating 100 days!  Luckily, we were able to do a little research and come up with some ideas!!!

Our monster t-shirt we made with 100 EYES to wear on our 100th day of school!

Our teacher asked us to make a project with 100 items on it...of course Camden choose a Star Wars theme!