Our Valentine's Day.

We had a nice Valentine's Day. We started with breakfast with pink pancakes. I was going for red but couldn't get enough food coloring in to make them that bright. I put the batter in a cleaned out mustard bottle and poured the batter out in the shape of hearts. The kids got a kick out of that.

I cut their pb&j's for their lunches with a cookie cutter in the shape of a heart and put a little Valentine card in there for them.

After school they came home to an I Love You balloon ($1 from the dollar store), a box of chocolates ($1), a super cute snowman doll (.30) and a bookmark ( $3) .

Mom came over and gave them a cute Valentine's she made with more candy. She took two white paper heart doilies and put a ribbon through them. Then she put a cute face on the front with some decorations. She filled them with candy and I Love You note.

For the family she got us a box of gummy bears. We all LOVE gummies around here! She got them after Christmas but to hide the Christmas label she cut out a heart and decorated it. Then she glued on top of the Christmas label. I thought that was pretty clever!

Mike bought me 18 multi colored roses at Aldis for $8. They are gorgeous! I had to put them in a vase myself but for the $40 + savings that was fine with me. I don't need any more vases anyway. With the savings Mike and I went out to lunch for a nice lunch for two. ($20) That way we didn't have to get a sitter (David was at Mom's Day Out) and lunch is about 1/2 what the dinner prices are.

I had a really nice dinner planned with sloppy joes cut in heart shapes, red Kool Aid, red applesauce, jello, a yummy heart shaped chocolate dessert and veggies but the kids had their ice cream social at school plus Valentine's party so they were sick of eating and so were Mike and I from our lunch. We ended up not eating any dinner but that was fine with me, we can eat it tonight.

I just thought I would share our Valentine's Day.

Tawra
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