getting ready for valentine's day

I felt the desire to have a Valentine's Day party for the kids and our friends this year. Inspired in part I think, by many creative ideas I come across on other blogs. Like this one at "The Macs" blog. So as part of school the other day, I had the kids help create this garland as part of the party preparations (another school project was having them help create the evite invitation). It was a perfect activity since Brie and Reese can cut hearts and Luke likes to watch me sew, so I enlisted his help in feeding me the hearts. The kids were delighted with the results, especially knowing they directly contributed to the final product.