hey girl.

just a little belated valentine from p-ray to you.

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family pictures & it's v-day!

i suppose an obligatory "happy valentine's day" is in order, yes?  i hope everyone out there is feeling the love on this absolutely silly holiday.  it's a silly holiday that i don't really mind though.  i mean, it's an excuse to eat some extra chocolate & do something sweet for that special someone, right?

sam & i have some valentine's day traditions.  they include eating pizza & drinking root beer outta champagne glasses & making handmade cards.  last year p-ray got in on the pizza & card-making action & i'm kinda excited about making this a family holiday rather than a couples holiday.  today parker & i are gonna hand-craft a card for sam & make chocolate dipped strawberries!  should be a good time.

anywho, i've mentioned having our family pictures taken like fifteen thousand times & now it's time to actually share 'em all here on the blog.  they were taking by the amazing stacy jacobsen & i am SO happy to finally have some legit family photos.  i've already ordered one in a 16x24" canvas for a photo wall & UPS says it should be here on friday.  i'm kinda freaking out.

also, these are watermarked with my blog name only because the images she gave us weren't watermarked but i don't want watermark-less pictures of my family out there on the interwebz, so thus i slabbed "a good life" on there.  i in no way took my own family's pictures.  again, they were done by stacy jacobsen.  check her out.

here we go.

this last one is the one i had blown up on canvas.  i love it!  also, can i just say that parker's hair cannot be tamed?  we wet it down right before pictures to try & reduce the flyaways but it still somehow managed to fro out a bit.  ah well, it makes me laugh.  i love that little monster.

and i have to give sam some credit... he hates having his picture taken but he went along with this fairly well.  probably mostly because i told him this gets him off the hook for a good year or so of family picture-taking.  that alone shoulda given him something to smile about!

weekday recap - {in iPhone pics} w.14

valentine's day started off as a pretty standard monday.  we went to stroller strides, hung out around the house, & p-ray played with toys.  then it got real awesome when sam came home with flowers in hand to begin the v-day festivities.  we ate pizza, we watched some shows, we had a little party, parker passed out on my legs.  and i liked it.

the highlight of our tuesday may have been the trip to target.  ok it was.  parker's ridiculously cute grin convinced me to buy him a mini-pillow pet & a new shirt for me.  yes, his grin totally had something to do with my new shirt.  what?

parker made me laugh all day wednesday.  he woke up super happy & stayed that way til bedtime.  win.  and he's becoming such a little explorer lately, he crawls through things, under things, he stands up, he gets back down, & he continues on his way.

oh yeah, & on wednesday night?  he flipped out when sam came home.  we're talking kicking legs, squealing, giggling, grabbing, thrashing arms excitement. you woulda thought i'd been torturing the kid all day.  fyi: i wasn't.

i worked in the office thursday.  this means i buy a breakfast sandwich & a hot chocolate from the cafe in my building & then get to eat it without a kid pulling my hair.  it's pretty sweet.  it's a win for parker too because he gets to play with his bff kaylee all day.  he clearly gave me a disapproving look after i picked him up to come home.

parker & i made a pretty awesome fort & climbed inside to read books.  this my friends, is why you have babies.  i can't think of one other reason.

friday night we went out for dinner in true friday night style & then came home & went to bed at 10:30... also in true friday night style.  be jealous.

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our v-day {in pictures}

our valentine's night went pretty much as planned.  it involved pizza, root beer, & chocolate chip cookies.  i made sam a card, he brought home flowers, we ate by candlelight, & we played with p-ray til he got tired.

and maybe i ate four pieces of veggie pizza & six cookies. 

it was a pretty perfect night.


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