{"id":1158,"date":"2009-02-14T23:10:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T04:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2009-02-14T23:11:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T04:11:53","slug":"our-lovely-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1158","title":{"rendered":"Our Lovely Valentine’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a sweet day in our house today.\u00a0 Lots more loving-one-another, and that just warmed this mama’s heart.\u00a0 We had lots of fun little treats and fun times together.\u00a0 Let me give you some glimpses of our Valentine’s celebrating…<\/p>\n

\"My

My sweet Valentine dressed for school<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The

The pink-and-sprinkle-dipped marshmallow lollipops Analise and I made for her class.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Pink-tinted

Pink-tinted buttermilk chocolate-chip pancakes for breakfast this morning. I had strawberries and whipped cream on mine \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Twirly

Twirly cookies in the making<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Our

Our cookies turned out great!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Don't

Don't waste good chocolate on a 2 year old boy, even if is only $1 and has a racecar on it.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Dinner

Dinner this evening<\/p><\/div>\n

\"My

My favorite part of each day... snuggling and books before bed.<\/p><\/div>\n

Brian was off on a race ride this morning, so the kiddos and I played, watched a movie, got Happy Meals for lunch (because nothing says ‘Happy Valentine’s Day, Mom!’ like not having to cook \ud83d\ude42 ), made the pretty little playdough cookies<\/a>, and had a super-short naptime. \u00a0 Brian came home with the exciting news that he’d won the 3-month winter race-ride series, including a nice jacket, backpack, $50 Tria Market card and $20 Starbucks card.\u00a0 Sweet!\u00a0 And then he surprised me by shaving his rough overgrown beard back to a short clean-cut goatee.\u00a0 He looks so young and handsome!<\/p>\n

We watched the Tour of California kick off in Sacramento online this afternoon, had our heart-shaped pizza dinner, and then capped off the relaxing family day with a trip to the ice cream shop.\u00a0 YUM!\u00a0 Analise was excited – and tired – for bedtime, because I’d given her a new satiny nightgown and fuzzy warm bathrobe.\u00a0 I should have gotten a picture of her all decked out for bed tonight!\u00a0 Oh well… I’m sure she’ll wear them both again tomorrow \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Happy Valentine’s Day!\u00a0 Hope your day was filled with love from your sweethearts and a sense of the Greatest Love of All.<\/p>\n

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son <\/sup>into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.\u00a0 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.\u00a0 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.\u00a0 –1 John 4:9-12<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a sweet day in our house today.\u00a0 Lots more loving-one-another, and that just warmed this mama’s heart.\u00a0 We had lots of fun little treats and fun times together.\u00a0 Let me give you some glimpses of our Valentine’s celebrating… Brian was off on a race ride this morning, so the kiddos and I played, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-grind","tag-valentines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-iG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}