Happy Valentine's Day

Is there any day better than Valentine's Day? You get one day a year to celebrate love and happiness and get all decked out in pink and red and it usually involves balloons, flowers, chocolates, romance, and love. For Family Home Evening this past Monday we talked about Love and how Jesus first loved us and how we can show others that we love them, it was really sweet. For our activity we made hearts out of pink, red, and white paper and decorated them and then we stuck them on our neighbors' doors (and the Kyle's-- but they weren't very surprised that it was us), and left pink frosted heart cookies and rang the doorbell and ran. When we went to our next store neighbors the day after--the kids were thrilled to show us the hearts they got on their door and that they had left them up. It was really sweet and made my kids smile to know how much their friends loved them! We love celebrating Valentine's Day and I'm happy the kids are learning to love doing things for others and that they're finding that it really can make them happy. We hope that everyone enjoyed their holiday and that it was full of love and happiness! John was so sweet, he knows me so well. He brought me home a red carnation and had it wrapped in money in place of the money he would have spent on a big boquet of flowers, so smart! We are so grateful for our good friends and family that live far and wide and thank you for all the cards and packages, they made our days and holiday wonderful!