Valentine's Day

Here are a few pictures from some of our Valentine festivities.

We decorated some cookies at home.  Scott was gone in northern California for work all week.  I had thought I would make cookies but ended up buying some undecorated cookies and frosting.  I had a couple doctor appointments that week, among other responsibilities and felt kind of busy.  We have a little mom and pop grocery store in our town that has great bakery items.  Their cookies were fresh and delicious.  Probably better than I would have made at home.  And they sell their frosting too.  Nice.

We had fun decorating.

Lots of sprinkles

The boys also decorated cookies at their church activity this week.  Grant says the leaders also bought the cookies from the same store.  Smart moms.  ;)

Trying to repurpose leftover Christmas M&Ms into Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day M&Ms.  It took me about 20 minutes to separate these.

Grant had a school performance.  He is the back row, just right of center.

They sang a bunch of songs about being their best selves and such.  It was cute.

Grant finally succumbed to the flu this week and had to miss Valentine's Day at school.  I delivered his Valentine's for his classmates and Anna retrieved his Valentine goodies from his classmates at the end of the day, so Valentine's Day was saved for this sick boy.

John and Emma making Valentine's receptacles

While getting some blankets out for the sick Grant, we got talking about baby blankets.  I pulled out Emma's yet unfinished baby blanket.  I did some more intricate piecing for the middle, but you can see it ended up being very small.  So I plan to make a thinner red border (partly finished here) and a fatter border of a lighter fabric to make the whole thing a little bigger.  It shouldn't be too much more work to complete the top in this way.  Then I can put it together.  So Emma is 5 years old and her baby blanket is not complete.  Maybe I can get it done before she starts kindergarten...which is not that far off.

We'll see

Maybe I can outsource it to Anna

She might do it for a price

And speaking of Anna, she made this Redbox Valentine box all by herself.  I'm glad she is to the age where she can craft without my help.  Because I don't enjoy crafting and am also not good at it.  It looked very cute.  Good job Anna!!

And Scott made these chocolate covered strawberries for a Valentine gift for me.  They are so tasty.  The kids enjoyed having some too.  Such a nice gift.  Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!