Richardson Family - Valentine's Day 2011

Valentine's Day for us started last week when we got a package in the mail...

Thanks Grandma Carol! 

Then last Thursday Pete and I had a date night out when we went to watch

 the El Toro High School Boys Basketball team dominate Tesoro High.

Final Score eventually was 65 - 45 El Toro

We had come to the game to watch a friend of ours' son who plays for Tesoro 

and is kind of a big shot in South Orange County high school basketball, but

I couldn't help but find myself cheering for home team El Toro. 

Got a late start on the actual Valentines themselves - Sunday afternoon found Jed and Henry

writing their classmates' names on the Valentines we got from the picked over section at CVS. 

VALENTINE'S DAY PARTIES! 

I pop into Henry's class party in the afternoon - here he tries to smile while trying not

to show that he is chewing a big piece of chocolate candy

Henry and classmate - at this age Fun Dip is a far better sweetheart than any girl 

I spend time volunteering with Jed's class as they are doing several Valentine's Day 

activities including Valentine's Mad Libs, cookie decorating and craft picture frames

at first Jed pretends to be mad and hides his decorated cookies from my camera 

but he is really being quite silly today (sugar high?) 

and can't pose for a decent picture here with his buddies 

Jed with his sweatheart 

Harriet and Jack had early out today at Middle school, 

so Harriet comes with me to help out with Jed's party

my two cute glasses wearers 

Harriet decorates her whiteboard for Valentine's Day.  

She is also on a countdown for our upcoming visit from  CD this weekend! 

The whiteboard in our kitchen is for Harriet and serves several purposes.

It is in part a fulfillment for a value project in Personal Progress in Young Womens

(an idea we got from our cousin Kenzie) as well as a creative outlet for Harriet.

She loves coming up with ideas, decorations, declarations and family information

for the board, and I love seeing what she is going to come up with next! 

Henry stands by our Valentine shrine holding the grid "mystery puzzle"

he completed showing a heart with an arrow through it.

And last night after everyone was tucked into bed I went in to brush my teeth and found

this last Valentine's day message waiting for me on my toothbrush: