BlurbBlog1: Happy Valentine's Day

I've never really had a bad Valentine's Day, they were neither here nor there, just another day, maybe an excuse to go out to dinner with some friends. But since being with Gabe, and now, having our family with Penny, Valentine's Days are so much more fun. This is how we celebrated 2014's.

It started a day early as it was also Penny's 19 month birthday so we thought we'd combine her celebration. Gabe bought her an adorable Hello Kitty card - meowm!

She got from me, her balloon…

…and books. Elmo and a Little People flap book:

Then she enjoyed her Valentine's Day cupcake (Gabe and I finished most of it the following evening, had she eaten the whole thing we would have never gotten her to bed :)).

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Mommy and Penny also EACH received a dozen roses from Gabe. Coral ones for me and pink for Penny.

When I had gone to buy Penny her balloon I also picked one up for Mimi:

I left it on Xenia's chair with the above note. (Penny and Macin call each other Mimi now).

Well the next day Penny got her Valentine from Mimi in the form of a cupcake:

(yes, Gabe and I helped her with this one too ;)

For Valentine's dinner on Friday Gabe and I exchanged our cards and then ordered in food from Parma. We ate after Penelope went to bed. It was a delicious dinner and the last one we would have at that table as our new one was arriving the next morning (post to come).

We had a lovely dinner which was the topper to a great Valentine's celebration in our little family.

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