Valentines 2015

Valentines 2015
Showing posts with label Valentine's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentine's Day. Show all posts

Friday, February 13, 2015

Happy Valentine's Day 2015!


Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday.  Truly it is.  And it's not because it's a ridiculously commercialized holiday where flower shops can charge 4x the normal charge for flowers, mylar balloon sales are in the millions, or because couples go out to expensive restaurants to show their apparent love for one another.  No.  Although I DO love a good meal, that is the opposite of why I love Valentine's Day.

I love Valentine's Day because it is the one day each year that people are encouraged to focus on the love they have for one another and show each other how much they care.  Please note - this doesn't have to be anything romantic.  I mean sure, there are hearts and cupid and arrows and lips all over the place to designate the Valentine's holiday, but truly, I think Valentine's is more about showing others how much you care about them.  Every year I make little gifts for my unit staff for V-day.  This year I'm doing heart coffee cups filled with chocolates.  YUM.  And the point of me doing this is, my staff know that I truly care about each one of them and they ARE appreciated.  I know they really enjoy getting something at work on Valentine's Day (who doesn't?!).

So....Happy Valentine's Day to YOU!  I hope you know that I care about you, and thank you for reading my blog =).  Be sure to tell the people in your life how much you love them and care for them.  That's truly what V-day is all about! My kids share my love of Valentine's Day and even had pictures taken to commemorate!  They wish you a Happy Valentine's Day as well! Hope your day is awesome!

Until next time -

Megan

Monday, February 14, 2011

4 months old. . .remember when?

The girlies turned 4 months old yesterday. It's amazing to see how far they have come in just 4 short months. It seems like yesterday they were born and were such tiny little princesses. They are still princesses of course (they are my babies after all - lol), but they are much larger (well over double their birth weight) size 2 diaper and 3-6 month clothes wearing princesses =).

It seems like just yesterday this was me. . . .

And I have to admit, I really miss it. I don't miss not having the girls around, but I absolutely miss feeling them kick inside me, being so excited to meet them and hold them and tell them how much they were loved or how happy we were that they were finally here with us. I didn't have a difficult pregnancy (except in the beginning we had a scare or two, and at the very end with pre-term labor and pre-eclampsia). The time being pregnant was awesome, and I would go back there and do it all over again in a second =). My husband, yeah not so thrilled about that idea, but I think that's probably because after about month 7 I was pretty worthless and couldn't even pick up stuff off the floor. Needless to say he was happy ecstatic when the girls finally came and I could start to resume semi-regular activities. . .

The girls were so little back then. . .

Then it seems that I blinked, and now look at these adorable little peanuts!! No head support needed, wanting to sit up on their own, awake nearly as much as they are asleep, smiling like crazy, cooing, babbling, laughing, teething, sleeping through the night (95% of the time), drooling everywhere, grabbing and playing with things and with each other. . . ahhh, I wouldn't have it any other way. . . everyone should get the chance to experience this. . .
Girls hanging out in the boppy. . .they are starting to look more alike each day. . .dang it! They were so easy to tell apart previously!!

Bri in Jeannie's arms and Liv in the Bumbo chair on the counter (I know, I know, you aren't supposed to put the bumbo's on the counter, but seriously I was right there) =)

Here we are in our little casual dresses. . .yeah, that's the last time you will see Bri in those tights. . . she had a blowout and I couldn't get it out of the tights - LOL.

Here we are in our Valentine's outfits! We don't want to smile, but we are still kind of cute anyway!

And of course a picture of each of the girls alone. . .
This is Bri =)

And this is Liv =)

Happy Valentine's Day, and happy 4 month birthday girls. We love you so much more than words can say.

Hope you had a wonderful day!!
Megan

PS - we have our 4 month check up and shots on Wednesday so I will make sure to update our stats when we're done!