February = Party Month!

February is always an eventful month at the Walker home! Malea turned 4 on February 12th, Malea’s Valentine’s Day party for pre-school was on the 13th, Keith turned 29 on February 14th, and we celebrated Valentine’s Day! It was a stressful weekend, but so fun too. (On a side note, in addition to February being a big birthday month in our immediate family, we have Keith’s sister, Keith’s brother, Keith’s niece, and my brother’s birthdays in February too!)

We had a friend birthday party for Malea on the 11th (since her actual birthday was on a Sunday this year). We invited a few of her friends to go to Provo Beach Resort for some fun activities, and then had everyone over at the house afterwards for a ‘My Little Pony’ themed party with pizza and cake & ice cream. It was so much fun! Malea got lots of fun presents, including her first bike from mommy and daddy! She got to ride around on it a little bit that day (seeing as how it was like 50-ish degrees that day!) but then the next day it snowed :( Oh well, she will get to ride it soon enough!

On the 12th (her actual birthday), we had a family birthday party for her and Keith. We had the family over for tacos and cake & ice cream. It was so fun hanging out with family!

On the 13th, Malea had her Valentine’s Day party at pre-school! The night before we put together little treat bags for each of the kids in her class with some candy and a “Tangled” valentine. She decorated a bag the week before to hold all her fun treats. They got to eat yummy sugar cookies and watch a Charlie Brown Valentine’s movie. She was a little grumpy about going to school that morning (her new phase lately….not sure what the deal is!) but she still had fun.

(Side note #2: See if you notice anything funny on the picture of the V-day decorations I hung up….)

That morning I made the kids heart-shaped pancakes with pink food coloring (and didn’t realize until I went to take pictures that BOTH my kids were wearing Christmas jammies…lol). To make up for that, I made sure to get a picture of them together in their Valentine’s jammies. :) That night Malea and I made some homemade Valentine’s and hung up hearts on our front door. She also decorated a birthday card for daddy.

Unfortunately on Keith’s birthday/Valentine’s Day we both had to work so we didn’t get to see each other much :( We did make Keith’s favorite cookies (No Bakes) and took them to his work though. Hopefully we will get a date night soon (hint, hint to anyone who wants to babysit for us….;))

I think I am all partied out! Now Spring can hurry up and get here! (Please?)….