Valentine's Weekend

We don't typically plan much for Valentine's day but it happened to be a busy weekend this year. Bonnie's 100th day of school celebration was on Friday the 13th. Her assignment was to pick something she could glue 100 of onto a t-shirt to wear to school. She chose hearts with gems inside in honor of Valentine's Day.

That night her school had a glow dance fundraiser so I took Bonnie to the dance and we had such a good time!

Valentine's morning the kids woke up to a few goodies from us. 

We had pink heart pancakes for breakfast.

Then we decided it would be a great day for Busch Gardens - and it was!

I happened to snap this photo of Bonnie doing the height check when we got in because I wanted to remember which rides she was now tall enough to do. She clearly is well over the 48" according to their height check. However, her and Benny stood in line for DarKoaster for an hour only to be turned away and told she was still an inch shy. So I'm not sure what happened - but we didn't try any new ones after that and still had a great time. 

Riser and I waiting for them while attempting DarKoaster. My littlest Valentine.

On Sunday after church my small group girls got together for a girls brunch which was also very sweet and fun. 

Hope everyone had a great day and a happy birthday for Opa!

Love Bugs performance

Bonnie and the rest of the kindergarteners put on a really sweet Valentine's Day 'Love Bug' performance. All the songs were about bugs. Bonnie had a very short speaking role, and she practiced very hard for it! 

They all did a great job and it was such a sweet performance!

Children's Museum and Surge

With the weather being so cold this last month, we have been trying to take advantage of as many of the indoor activities that we can. I took the kids to the Richmond Children's museum one day that Bonnie had off school. 

I also took them to Surge Adventure Park another day. They could have stayed there all day long - and it definitely wore them out!

Massanutten

A couple weeks ago we took a quick trip to Massanutten to go to their indoor water park. January was a frigid month where we were stuck inside a lot, so this was a nice break in the routine.

We spent a good bit of the day at the water park and the kids loved it. 

After we got dried off and checked into the hotel everyone was hungry and ready to eat. Just about everywhere we called was about an hour wait - except for the trusty Olive Garden. Those endless breadsticks did not disappoint our kids.

We stayed at this hotel two years ago when Eric took Bonnie snow tubing. And the thing Bonnie was most excited about this trip was the hotel pool. So we did some night swimming when we got back. 

We finally all got dried off, cozied up in the king bed. The kids were very excited to stay up late, play video games and eat snacks - so that's what we did! It was a fun trip and nice to get away during this season!