Feelin' the Love

For breakfast on this overly commercialized holiday (that I LOVE!) we had heart pancakes on heart plates with our favorite sides...bacon and pears!

It was best dressed day at school so I let Jane wear her real best dress, with the understanding that there was no outside recess on best dress day.  I was mis-informed.  Luckily, her dress and tights and shoes survived the monkey bars.  Here are the girls at my sisters house on her fabulous white rockers.  We ate lunch at her house on china!, sans the best dress.

My sister Chris came also and brought those pretty vegies.  For some reason I just loved the red pepper , and even ate the leftovers at dinner!  Anyway, thought I'd take a liberty and show you some of Stacy's cute decorations...she always has a pencil for ya and that heart basket is as cute as it looks!

The top picture is the kiddos waiting for their ride...I made them wait outside so that when the ride came she wouldn't honk and wake up Katie Anne who slept until after 9:30!  LOVE!  Anyway, they loved dumping, comparing, and trading, just like on Halloween.  Jack was the only one who had to take a box so here's our combined effort box made late Sunday afternoon.  

So, for dinner we always have home made pizza, with the pepperoni in the shape of a heart.  So, I started making the dough.  I let it sit while Jane and I ran a valentine to her friend across the street, and when I came back and got the dough out I noticed little blue chunks throughout the dough!  But what could it be??? And then it hit me.  The boys had been playing with a little window gel cling that Jeffrey got for a valentine.  They were throwing it and trying to get it to stick to the ceiling, and then they would see who could catch it when it fell.  Fun game.  Too bad it fell right into my dough, apparently just before I turned the mixer on!  Well, John and I had a good laugh and we picked the pieces out (almost all of them...) and I put the dough in the oven.  And then I burned them to a crisp.  Sigh.  So, I continued making my breadsticks, made a new batch of pizza dough, and we ate, just an hour later than I had planned!

(Side story here...when I was on my mission, my companion and I were invited to dinner along with another set of sister missionaries.  We had been to the home where we were going quite often and always enjoyed it.  This time the couple made us shakes and we could hear them laughing in the kitchen.  We dug into our shakes when they brought them out when all of a sudden one of the sisters found something in her shake.  It was a bit of spoon.  When the shakes were in the blender they had put a plastic spoon in to scrape the sides and the spoon had been chewed to pieces.  They tried to get them all out, but without success.  We laughed until we cried, then ate our shakes...very carefully!)

For family night we played a few minute-to-win-it games with candy hearts.  All of them were stacking games:

As for valentine's to the kids we went out to eat at Maddox on Saturday night (thanks to a gift certificate from Christmas, and the kids earning kid's meals at school).  So, here are their little something's...the little box holds their love note...

Hope your day was filled with love, and not those little blue chunks in your dough.