livin like a bea...: Love day

I love Valentine's Day, used to hate it (that was before Ry of course). Now that I have an amazing Valentine (even if I have to share him with my 2 girlies, hehe) I couldn't be happier to celebrate this Hallmark holiday. Whatever, we don't go crazy but I just LOVE hearts and spoiling my girls and hubs whenever possible. This valentine's day was no different.
This was the first year that Mya was in school on Valentine's Day so you know I was super excited to have Mya pick our her Valentine's to fill out for all her friends at school. She picked out these Brave Valentine's for her class about a month ago. You would have thought I would have gotten started early on them since we had them, nope.
No worries, we finished them up Valentine's Day eve.

We also made these to enjoy on love day too! Peanut butter cookies with Reese's hearts on top. They were slammin!

I also found this adorable pic on pinterest for Mya to send to some family and friends. So since I don't know photoshop for the life of me, I asked our amazing family up in Mass to help us out. Since Steven was at the toy show in NY, Ry said to ask Krysia. This chick is AMAZING! THANKS SO MUCH KRYSIA!!! We owe you and love you tons!

I asked her to take this pic of Mya, blowing a kiss and add 3 hearts going up. SCORE!

She then sent me this one of Ash! Ry and I were cracking up. My little heart angel! LOL

I put the pics onto these. Mya signed her name to all of them!!!!

Here are the outtakes of the pics. I had Mya blowing a kiss...

Smiling, such a ham!

Ash wasn't too keen on looking at me. And I noticed after I got the shirt on her that the heart was a complete mess!

So I had to change Ashley's shirt. That was a battle! In the meantime, Mya didn't hesitate to smile.

I had to bribe Ash with gum (go ahead judge all you want!).

She wanted to jump on Mya's bed while holding onto her crib. This gives me a damn heart attack. I always think she's going to just drop to the ground. NO FEAR!

CHEESE, still wouldn't look.

That was all I tortured them with that night. Onto Valentine's Day. The morning went great! I woke up early. Got to have a quiet breakfast with my valentine (LOVE). The girls, of course, slept a little later (missing daddy, who left for work already). Of course, the day, he wanted them to see the roses and cards and cute little gifts he got them for love day. He surprised me with this!

I was so super excited! I know, lame to get excited over a protein shaker, but it's pink and I'm totally into this workout new lifestyle kick that I was uber excited! He also got me a beautiful red rose arrangement and he made me a card, yep, didn't buy that ish, made it! SO SO SO CUTE!

He also had the girls make me cards...just love him!

This one's from Mya. He said she wrote out so good mommy on the top, and Mya. But then she colored it all in. She then told me that she drew pics of us with mustaches. ummmmm, is there something she's trying to tell me???

Well, this Valentine's Day didn't go quite as planned. Not that we had anything planned but just wasn't our 'typical' day, here at the Bea crib. The girls got up, got dressed nice and fast. Of course I had to snap some pics of them in their Valentine's day attire.
Yup, every morning this kid runs to the pantry and grabs the huge box of fruit snacks. She then comes to me with the bag and says, OPEN PEEEEE.

Cheesin as usual!

This was the best I got.

Then this little photo shoot happened, lol!

Love this little angel.

I was running a little ahead (like 2 minutes) of schedule. I always, pack the car up, turn it on, to warm it up, ahead of time so that I don't have to carry 15,000 bags, 2 girls and get into a cold car. I got all the bags ready and went to get my keys, they're not there. HMMMMM. This doesn't typically happen. I hang them up the second I get into the house every night. If I don't they can be found either in my jacket pocket or the kitchen counter. I checked both places, not there. I thought back to the night before and, since Ry was at his moms when I got home from working a little late, I knew I needed my keys to get into the house. HMMMM, I started looking in other places, upstairs, on my dresser, Ryan's dresser, girls room (just cause I was up there), NO NO and NO. Now I'm getting annoyed cause I'm not a running on time anymore and I HATE misplacing my keys. I ran out to my car to look on the ground, just maybe they fell somehow, someway, nope. My car was unlocked though, another thing I never do. Since my car got broken into last year, I have NEVER left my car unlocked since then. So now I'm thinking, did Ry take my car last night for anything? I did remember him saying he wanted to put some stuff from his trunk to mine. So he must have had my keys. I call him to see if he has them. Once, no answer, twice, no answer. I think and realize he doesn't usually bring his phone with him onto the site. I keep calling and calling and calling. He finally picks up and I'm in a tizzy. I ask him if he knows where my keys are? He says, no, I have no idea. I'm literally crying at this point. The time of the month doesn't help with all my emotions! He's trying to calm me down and in walks my neighbors (I'm a hot mess!). Such great neighbors we have, they asked if they could bring me to work. I say no and they tell me it's ok to calm down. lol! Ry tells me he'll come home to take me to work. Meanwhile, I texted Mary who was on her way to get the girls. This has NEVER happened and I was so annoyed, and just emotional. I literally feel like I turned my house upside down to find these damn keys. Checked the garbage, every jacket pocket, girls handbags, girls toy closet, bedroom, bathrooms, EVERYWHERE! Mary takes the girls and Ry gets home to take me to work. We get into the car and he says, "I'll drop you off then go to Dodge to get a new key made." Perfect! Then he goes, "Shit, I forgot my wallet at work!" He leaves his wallet, keys and phone (usually) in his lunchbox before going onto his job site. So in the rush he was in to get out, he left his wallet. I tell him I'll just go with him, since it's close to my work anyway, thinking it'll take 10 minutes tops to get a new key. We get to Dodge, the guy says, oh man, no you gotta get your car towed here since I have an anti theft system and chip in my car, they need to program the key. GREAT! At this point, Ry was apologetic, he remembered taking my keys off the key rack to open the car. Don't worry I kept saying, it was really just driving us crazy that we couldn't find them. We drove home to call AAA to get the car towed. They said it'll be there in about an hour. After an hour, we called, they still weren't there. Ryan explained to the person what happened, "Oh we can send out a locksmith that we have to program your new key and take car of it all." That's great! They're in North Brunswick, so sent them right over, in an hour! UGH! Ok, whatever. The guy gets there, at this point, it's like noon. Ry goes out there to talk to him and he comes back in. The guy starts working. Not even 5 minutes goes by and the guy comes to the door. Ry goes outside to talk to him and a few minutes later he comes in to tell me that the VIN number and my ignition column don't match. When my car got broken into last year, they tried to rip out my ignition, so I needed to get a new one. This all made sense but we didn't even think about this when it happened. SO, now the guy needs to give us a new steering column as well. UGHHHH!!!!! Just keeps getting better, right! OH JUST WAIT! So, the guy starts working. I'm trying to get some stuff done around the house since I'm home anyway. So, at this point it's like 12:45 ish. Ry decides he's not going into work cause it's pointless for him to go. By the time this gets finished, and he gets there, he'll be there for an hour. Since he left his wallet in his lunchbox, he called his foreman to take it home with him, so it's not on the job overnight. The foreman agrees, and I hear Ry say, "you've got to be kidding me," as he walks outside. I run downstairs and follow him outside, I KNEW that he must have found it in his lunchbox! Ry hung up and ran to the guy to see if he had already started, this way we can stop him, no such luck. During this whole part of him putting the new ignition in and programming a new key, the guy came back to us and told Ry that he needed the old key for something out of it. So, Ry had to go to his work to get the key. $250 and 8 hours later (I know, it made me sick too), we have 2 keys now, a new ignition and this will NEVER happen again!

So, once all of this was said and done, it was 3pm, time to get the girls. We decided that since we were all together so early in the day, we'd go to Thomas Sweets to treat the girls for Valentines Day.