Love is in the Air

Our Valentine's celebrating actually about a week early with helping Sycely work her way through writing out Valentine's cards for everyone in her class. It felt like such a big-kid project and I'm soooo thrilled to look forward to doing that again every year for the next 7 years or so! On Thursday, Sycely's class celebrating Valentine's Day by having special cookie treats to decorate and distributing Valentine's to the mailboxes they'd decorated earlier in the week. Sycely also got special hershey kiss treats from Miss Theresa at ballet school on Saturday.

Valentine's Day started off with pink, heart-shaped pancakes for breakfast. The girls got dressed in their matching Valentine's Day outfits and we headed off to church where Sycely enjoyed yet more special treates-pink frosting filled cookies. After church we had lunch and got Ella (and Mommy) down for a nap and finished our last minute packing for the big V-day Sleepovers. Nanny and Papa came to pick up the girls for their Valentine's Sleepover Party with Nanny. It was Ella's first sleepover, and though I was really excited to get to have a night away during which we could actually finish more than one sentence uninterrupted, the Mommy part of my heart was just a little sad to be leaving my tiny Roo Bug overnight for the first time. But her big sister was with her and she's a pro at this sleepover business!

Lem and I checked into our hotel, the Captain Cook and got settled in our corner room on the 15th floor. We had city/mountain and ocean views-yay! We headed off to Simon's for dinner and drinks then went back to our room for a little downtime, exchanging presents and some olympics viewing until it was time for our dessert resevation. It was super cool to have time enjoy each other's company without being rushed to get back to the girls and we got to watch a lovely sunset over the city and inlet.

We had dessert at the Glacier Brewhouse, where I savored every morsel of my peanut butter pie and Lem sipped a scrumptious something or other margarita. It was super convenient that we were staying at the hotel and didn't have to worry about downtown parking and it was fun to be able to enjoy a leisurely walk to the restuarants. The weather cooperated and even warmed up into the 30s so we weren't totally freezing and miserable!

The next morning we enjoyed breakfast in bed courtesy of room service and lounged around in our plush, snuggly hotel robes til it was time to check out. We grabbed some Starbucks a few blocks down after another downtown stroll and then had to head back home (and back to reality) to get our girls. We had such a great time and the girls had so much fun with Nanny (despite Ella not sleeping well) and brought home lots of Valentine treasures from their sleepover.