Valentine Weekend

This weekend we had a 50's dance at church for Valentine's weekend. It was so fun to get out for the first time without the kids. I was a little nervous because we still don't know people very well, but Celeste has made friends with some girls in the neighborhood. One girl is a year older than her and one is a year younger. They are sweet girls though and so far, haven't had any problem playing with Eddie and Gordon on occasion. So, Kyle asked their grandma who they use for babysitters and she said they would be happy to babysit for us. It was so nice of her to watch the kids for the evening. We had planned to feed them since we didn't have to leave until 6:45, but they ordered pizza and since the kids had been outside playing, just had them come in and eat with them. We offered to go in half on the pizza, but they refused. I know this summer will be fun though with lots of lunches and dinners to share with them, so I'm not at all worried about paying them back, we'll definitely get a chance!

The decorations were great. They were simple, but so fun for the theme.

These were the center pieces on the tables. They were great! I loved the ice cream sodas and all of the records were different, so we had to go to all of the tables to read them!

We didn't take pictures in the car, but you could get behind the car to take pictures.

They even finished off with ice cream sodas. I had cherry and Kyle had to try a few different flavors, so he had cherry the first time and then had to mix cherry and line the second time, just to try it out! We met some new people and danced with friends we have already made. We didn't stay the whole evening because church is so early and the kids weren't home in bed, but we really had a fun time. We have made a note to ourselves though! Being on time is being a half hour early! For some reason, everything is late here. Church even starts 5-10 minutes late on a semi regular basis. That's just the way it is here. Kyle and I will never get used to it. We still leave the house on Sunday morning with plenty of time to get there at least 10 minutes before church starts and that will never change. I will probably learn to relax on making it to play group right at 10:30 though because we just sit in the parking lot until someone else shows up when we get there that early!