Valentine's Day 2011

First off, I LOVE Valentine's day. I think it is such a sweet holiday to show the ones you love how much they mean to you. I wish I focused on how much my family means to me more often. We had such a good day.

It started of with this yummy breakfast treat I found on Sand & Sisal blog. It was really easy to make. It was Pepperidge Farm puff pastry sheets I cut out in heart shapes and then had raspberries and chocolate chips. I made them the night before and then just baked them in the morning and served them on red heart paper plates with some pink strawberry milk. Everyone really liked them.

For those who may not know, I work at Bonneville High School in the lunchroom. I really like my job and the women I work with. My husband is always teasing me and saying things like he wishes I was his lunch lady when he was in school and just silly things like that. He thinks all these high school boys have a crush on me which is just not true and totally awkward since I'm old enough to be their mother! The Seniors in High School this year, were born the same year I graduated! Anyway, Ron came to my work and left flowers and chocolates and this note in my car. It made me laugh so hard just because of the things he says to me.

When the kids got home from school, they all saw this note and flowers on the table. Courtney kept telling me that Dad would be really mad if he knew who my secret admirer was. She was very concerned. My boys knew immediately it was their dad but loved seeing Courtney's reaction. She wouldn't leave it alone the rest of the day, so I finally told Ron he better tell Courtney that they were from him!

For Valentine's Day this year, I got a little more creative (and daring) for my husband's gift.

I get home from work an hour and half before my kids get home. So, the night before I made sure Ron wasn't going to be busy the next day at work at that time and that he would be able to take his lunch break then so my plan would work. That morning I went out to his car and put a note on his steering wheel letting him know of our "appointment" at that time. I won't give all the details, but if you want some fun romance ideas or anything to spice up your marriage, you can go to this blog, (http://loveactually-blog.blogspot.com/2010/04/body-shop-date-night-roleplay.html) and see what I did for Valentine's Day for him. I went all out too with props and everything. It was so much fun, and he LOVED it! I made one mistake though. I put one of the signs on the front door to the house just before he arrived home and told him to ring the bell for service. Well, I forgot to take that one down before the kids got home from school. They were very curious what that sign was all about! oops!

We don't like to go out to dinner on Valentine's Day. The restaurants are too crowded and not fun. So, we have always had a special Valentines candlelight dinner with our kids. We had Rib eye steaks that were filleted. Did you know when you fillet a rib eye, it makes a perfect heart shape? We also had roasted red potatoes, onions and mushrooms. My sweetheart is a steak & potatoes man so that's what I made him. It turned out so good and felt like restaurant quality!

After dinner, we had FHE since it was Monday night. Ron found a funny valentine story in the Child Craft books we have and had Tyler read it to us. The kids loved it and were laughing so hard. We just had a good night together. Then Ron and I gave the kids a small box of chocolates and a little present. We had these cookies for the treat. It was another great Valentine's Day!!!