A Month of Love

I love holidays, and I love family traditions. I have always loved Valentines day gimmicks and all. 

 Meg has a valentines dance at her school with all the 6th graders. She had another one of these dances back in November and she came home with stars in her eyes and declared it the best day of her life. She was floating all afternoon. She worked up the courage to ask Brock to dance on a girls choice and they played Taylor Swifts Love Story and she proclaimed it "their song". Other boys asked her to dance to and she danced every dance. She was soo excited for this Valentines dances. She had her outfit planned well in advance. She looves her converse and wanted to wear them because she's already taller than Brock. This dance didn't go quite as well. When they played Love Story, another boy asked her to dance before Brock could. Then on one of the girls choice songs she asked Brock but then he got called down to the office so she only got to dance with him once rather than twice. She came home sullen. I guess you win some and you lose some.

 I know, I know. I'm crazy. We spend so many hours on valentines boxes nowadays. It's not to be showey. Its because I love doing it with the kids and being creative, and I love fulfilling their hope for what their box could be. That's my motivation. This year, Adin requested a Tower of Terror box. We looked at images online and did our best to recreate it. I really wanted to make it so that you put the valentine in the elevator and dropped it into the box by some sort of pulley system, but try as we might we couldn't get that to work out. Bummer. It still turned out pretty cool and he was happy.

 On a side note, Gracie makes a dang cute vater.

I think I've mentioned how much this girl loves to help me in the kitchen. She helped me make our traditional valentines pizza from start to finish. We just need to learn a little more finesse when spreading or stirring. Right now it makes for quite the messy experience.

How cute is that?

It's not a super fancy tradition but a tradition the same and the kids love it. Heart shaped pizza candlelight dinner. Last year we added chocolate covered strawberries to the mix and I think that's hear to stay.

I'm so flaming mad that we don't have a single picture, but Brian and I got to go back the Manti House Inn for a valentines dinner. We had our wedding luncheon there. I've wanted to go back so bad. It was a fun experience to get to be back in there and remember that day. The only downer to the night was that the food was truly terrible. Apparently there is a different owner from when we got married. We paid a pretty penny for it. It was buffet style and there really wasn't a good thing on the buffet. I didn't care though. I have been itching to go back there so bad for so long that it didn't dim the experience too much for me. Meg and I got diagnosed with strep throat the day before this dinner and Brian got hit with it just an hour or so before we left. He knew I wanted to go so bad that he was a trooper and medicated himself up and went anyway. He was a little bit kooky but I like him that way. :) That's a wrap.