Valentines

We had a nice and busy Valentine's Day. Peter and I made Daddy a candy bouquet with m&m's, reeces, baby ruths, butterfingers, twizzlers, etc. Of course I didn't take a picture and neither did Ryan but you get the gist. We surprised him at work and I think he liked it. The vase came home empty so I guess we did well! Then Pete and I went and collected a friend of his and took her to storytime at the library with us. We love going to storytime. Then we hurried his friend home and had a little time before heading to the school for the second grade program that Alana was in. Yesterday was Arizona's 100th birthday as a state (number 48, baby!). It was an adorable program and she did a great job. Her class played, "Are you smarter than a 2nd grader?", it was darling. That's our girl at the desk on the right side.




They are birthday candles in this picture, isn't that so cute?



Then we jammed home and Pete played with his buddies Axle and Maddox, the kids came home from school, Jeff went to mow lawns at Grampa L's house, Leah and Alana went to gymnastics, while Tessa and I made dinner for our guests and fancy dinner party we had last night. We had both sets of our parents, Ryan's aunt and uncle down from Canada (who cleaned the kitchen after and washed all the dishes and were a fabulous crew, I will have to have them over more often), Jess and Mitch, and Linz and her babies came too. It was a fun night. None of the food was heart shaped like I wanted to make but it tasted really good so it was okay. We had meatloaf, mashed potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower, rolls, fruit kabobs, and red velvet cupcakes. I tried to put the marbles in the baking tins with them to make the cupcakes heart shaped and it worked sort of on a few of them, most of them just looked like someone had bitten them, as Peter sweetly pointed out. Our guests were wonderful and we had a great time.

It was a busy day and I keep wondering what I would have cut out to make myself a bit less harried but I can't imagine what I would have left out so I guess I'm just going to have to go with it and be happy with non-heart shaped meatloaf patties and malformed cupcakes.