The night before the big day the girls helped me make these awesome treats for their class parties: Cookie Dough & Candy. They turned out so yummy! While we were making them the Young Women from the Church came and "Heart Attacked" us! For those who don't know what this is, the girls made a whole bunch of hearts out of paper and and wrote sweet notes on them for us and then taped them all over our front door! Technically, they like to do this 
on the sly so that we wouldn't know about it but Geoff was in the garage looking for something and he shouted at me that he thought someone had pulled into our driveway so I went to check it out and ran into a horde of teenage girls! It was really sweet. I even took a picture of our front door when they were done but it got accidently deleted from my camera!! ugh!! So, instead I found this random picture online of a 'heart-attacked' door for posterity's sake!
For dinner I made my traditional pink dinner! Pink pancakes, and pink milk! Usually, I make pink eggs but they're so stinkin' expensive right now that I couldn't bring my self to buy any! Here is a photo o
f the awesome pancakes that I made:
Aspen also had a sweet friend over for the afternoon and she ate dinner with us. Grandpa Gibson sent beautiful ca
rds with a little money for each of the kiddos. The cards were really sweet. He reminded the kids how much their Grandma loved them. Aunt Karin, Sam and Hannah sent special valentines and games... so fun! Thank you! And Papa sent each of the girls a rose to the school. They loved getting something at school! I bought each of the kiddos (except Andyn) a balloon and tied it to a little bucket with a little bit of candy. I think they had a great day and it was fun to see all the LOVE floating around!
As for me and Geoff, we gave up trying to go to dinner on Valentine's Day long ago! It's really hard to find a babysitter and the restaurants are totally crowded unless you make reservations at a really expensive place! For those who really know us, the expensive restaurants are not that appealing to us anyway! So... we stayed home and after the kids went to bed we had a really yummy dessert and watched a movie! I got Geoff a card and he bought me a card and some inexpensive flowers that were beautiful. Geoff bought the dessert and he hit a home run with this one! It was so delish!! This was the only picture I could find of it:
It was actually Edward's Peanut Butter Creme Pie w/ Reese's (individual serving) but the picture I think is Butterfinger. To wrap it up, this year was a really fun loving Valentine's Day!!
2 comments:
OOOOH, you didn't tell me about that dessert. It sounds so good! Maybe you didn't tell me 'cause I had the stomach flu?
Valentine's Day was really special and fun for us all. What a fun day! And it doesn't have to be expensive, either...it took some getting used to, but Steph doesn't enjoy extravagance and gives me heck if I try it...so I am finally learning. At the Wal-Mart checkout, I put flowers and the dessert through the checkout and it added up to less than $6.00 including tax. I looked at the young woman behind the register, and said, "Wow. Not bad. Less than six bucks for my wife's entire Valentine's Day." The checkout lady pouted at me like I was a bad husband, and I told her, "You don't know my wife. If I spent more, I would be in trouble!"
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