Valentine's Day

Hope you all had a great V'day and experienced lots of love...we sure did over here!  It was a great day and Tucker's First Valentine's day :)

With it being Tucker's first Valentine's day, I had to make sure he gave his friends at school some special Valentines.  I will start off by saying I consider myself crafty...well I definitely try to be and want to be crafty!  This is the deal though...I am pretty good at making the crafts, just not so great at coming up with the cute ideas.  Dustin tries to say I'm not as "creative" as I can be.  No, I enjoy being creative...I just need a little help inspiration sometimes!  With that being said, Pinterest was pretty much made for people like me!  It's great, I love it, and I get lots of great ideas.  Pinterest helped me come up with some great Valentines for the kiddos in Tucker's class!

Dustin, the creative one, helped me make the stickers in Photoshop.

How cute are these?  "I Dig You-Love, Tucker V."

Get it?  "Dig", because it's a shovel!  

Every holiday I definitely take advantage of having an excuse to make things for Tucker's teachers.  If I could, I would make them something every week!  His sweet teachers are Amazing women, who I could never thank enough for taking such great care of our baby boy and loving him so much!  

Ms. Wanda, Ms. Mary Beth, and Ms. Nicole received Red Velvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing from Tucker Boy!

I left Dustin a card and some of his favorite candy on his desk as a little surprise when he started working that morning.  My card and candy I left for him were nothing compared to what he made for me!  We had already decided we weren't going to buy each other gifts this year.  I came home from work to find this from my Valentine...

He took the lyrics to "our" song, which we had our first dance to at our wedding, and made a beautiful piece of art for me!  

Our song is, "Be Mine" by David Gray. Very fitting for such an awesome Valentine's gift, huh?

I will cherish this gift forever!  It is so special, I love it!

Like I said before, he's the creative one :)

I am so very thankful for my two Valentines, Dustin and Tucker.  They are my world.  I hope that I can show them every day of the year how much I love them and how much their love means to me!

Christmas!

Yes, I know I am a tad bit late, but I'm new at this so cut me a little slack.  And remember, if nothing else this post will be for Tucker to see when he is a wee bit older to look back on his first Christmas.

Christmas this year Felt like it lasted an entire week for our family!  We have lots of places to be and people to see, which we are so thankful for.

To start off the festivities...we attended two candlelight services.  The first at our church on Friday night.  Let me just say, an auditorium lit by 2,400 people holding candles was pretty Amazing!  The second service took place at Dustin's grandmother's church.  I couldn't think of a better way to start off the Christmas holiday.  It was great!

After our second candlelight service on Christmas Eve, we came home spent some time with my family and then did our traditional opening of one gift and started our annual watching of the 24 hour marathon of "A Christmas Story".  Since this made mine and Dustin's 10th (yes ten!) Christmas eve together, this was year number 10 he received PJ's from me!  Growing up, my mom and Granny always gave my sister and me pajamas so I had to pass on this tradition which is so special to me.  I am also very glad to be able to share this tradition with Tucker as well...he has many more pairs of Christmas PJ's to look forward to!

Christmas morning Tucker woke us up so excited to see what Santa had left..actually he was probably just hungry, but then was excited to see what Santa brought!

We then made our way to Dustin's meme's for Christmas brunch and Tucker got to open a few more presents there too.  After brunch, presents, checking out the Christmas service online from Pastor Chris at Church of the Highlands, we ended the morning by watching the original "Miracle on 34th Street" while Tucker had a little nap.  For dinner, we traveled on to Dustin's mom for an untraditional, yet awesome, Christmas meal consisting of steak, potatoes, and salad.  Untraditional, but a nice break from all of the Holiday meals!  It was so delish!  We then exchanged gifts and Tucker opened a lot of great, fun toys from GiGi!  It was a great day filled with lots of family time and LOTS of toys for Tucker boy!  

Dustin and  I ended the night, after putting Tucker to sleep, with a very fun game called "The Logo Game"...one of Dustin's Christmas gifts from me.  He won, as usual, but it was still very fun.  We might even make it a new tradition...ending the night on Christmas night with a board game.  After all, isn't that one of the things that makes the Holidays so special?  Traditions!  

I hope everyone's Christmas was as wonderful as our first Christmas a family of three! :)