Valentine's Day

I had big plans for Valentine's Day, as I always do. But it didn't exactly work out as I planned. I was planning to make waffles or crepes with strawberries and whipped cream, but since word got out that Scott was hurt, the ladies at our church insisted on bringing dinner for a few days. I was embarrassed about that at first 'cause I usually just like to do things myself, but they really did insist and I was secretly really happy and grateful that they would do that for us. I've been feeling very stressed and exhausted ever since Scott got hurt. So it was very nice of them and very welcome. I already had a roast I had bought to make stew, but by the time I realized that I needed to use it, it was too late for the slow cooker and too late to make stew. So I ended up making pot roast in the oven and I didn't really know what I was doing. It turned out just ok. :( Also I had plans to have chocolate fondue after dinner, but the pot roast took so long that Scott thought it was too late for my dessert 'cause the kids had to go to bed (curse you pot roast!!). I was kind of sad about my dinner plans being derailed, but I think it was my own fault. Oh well.
I was very happy though because I had intended to make Valentine sugar cookies with the kids and I did accomplish that. Hooray! The cookies even turned out good. Possibly my best sugar cookie venture of all time. I didn't make the frosting from scratch, but all things considered I thought it was a success. Here are some of our cookies, pre-baking (above). They look like hearts!! That's a huge rolled cookie breakthrough for me!

Anna and Matthew were pretty interested in eating all the flour that I had used to roll out the dough. I think they thought it was sugar, but they didn't seem disappointed after tasting it. Hmmm

Decorating the cookies!

Grandma Guptill, who just got into town to help us while Scott is hurt (BIG THANK YOU!!) also helped us with our decorating and the kids liked that. I think hers were probably the classiest looking cookies! She also helped the kids getting the appropriate amount of frosting and sprinkles on their cookies. A very important job!

Matthew definitely had a method. It involved as many conversation hearts as would fit on a single cookie.

It was easy to pick out all the Matthew creations. It was lots of fun decorating and we watched Cinderella for a little Valentine Day movie night. Very fun. Also I was happy because I got Sees Candies for Valentine's Day. A new Sees shop just opened in Colorado Springs a few days ago, so it was very exciting for me. I hope everyone had a good Valentine's Day!!
See Valentine's adventures from years gone by HERE and HERE.