Little Kite Girl

So a few days ago I saw this at Enviromom and thought it was really cute.  Then, with the onslaught of packaging that came our way because on my new iPhone , etc. I decided to try them out myself.  They definitely came out a little bit differently than Enviromom’s…I’ll call mine “impressionist.”  Yeah.

Next year maybe I’ll get a move on and actually send some of Camper’s handiwork out to friends and family- this year I think we’ll just give them to the people we see the most, except we will probably send some to Grandma & Grandpa Hattaway.  Better late than never, eh?

In addition to the stamps, which I made hastily hoping that they’d look like hearts (kind of, right?) we also used my favorite Crayola crayons- the kind in the hard plastic shells that you have to twist up (no sweaty finger wrapper issues)(Camper has the sweaty craft fingers, not me) and some STICKERS.  Yes, you heard me right.  And now my child now knows the joy of struggling with a tiny sticker for 2 minutes, seeing it finally adhere to the paper and experiencing a brief but intense moment of celebration before turning to me and asking for, “Mo! Mo!”

So Happy Valentine’s Day everyone, hope you have a good one :)

Before I started dating John I had NEVER had a real Valentine.  I think there was a kid in, like…2nd grade?  I don’t remember the details, just running around the playground to get away from him again and again only to realize that I played it completely the wrong way.  I WANTED to be caught.  Girls are confusing, huh?

Our first Valentine’s Day together I’m pretty sure we went to our favorite restaurant in SLC, Squatters, which always seemed like our “fancy” place to go.  Funny our “fancy” place is a micro brewery.  The next year we were married, I was pregnant, and in that “I’ve been pregnant for about 5 weeks don’t look at me wrong or I’ll throw up on you” phase.  I’m pretty sure we stuck around home, and John got me that MOST amazing card with two kissing fishes.  I think it’s in my box of stuff I left behind when I left work suddenly to be sick/have a baby.  That’s SAD.

Today was much of the same as last year.  Without the pregnancy, I mean.  Camper got a cold the other day, his worst day was yetserday, I think.  I caught it from him (as did John) and my worst day was today.  I’m thinking John’s worst day is on its way for tomorrow.  John still got me a cute card that doubles as flowers (the kissing fishes also had a pop-up boquet, as does this one, sans fishes) and John got a surprise in the mail: iWork.  Now he doesn’t have to suffer through Microsoft Office anymore.  So I’ll only have to hear about it when he’s on my computer.  A present for BOTH of us.  I think there are some festive cookies heading my way as well.  So it’s a sweet, quiet, stay at home and sniffle on the couch kind of day.