Valentine's Day

Well, as some of you may know, we are not huge fans of Valentine's day...we love each other every day so why make a day to pressure each other to get the perfect gifts? However, we think the idea of taking time out to show the love is a good idea. Our first year of marriage, we totally ignored the holiday. Last year, we had our fancy schmancy party and invited some other couples over. This year, we decided to invite the Smith family to our teeny tiny apartment and have dinner. We were very glad they came! The kids had been sick most of the week, but they were better to come for dinner! For desert, we made cake...white cake that I went a little food-coloring-happy making pink.


Steven does not like to use the PAM spray, and he thought I put too much on (he always thinks that) so he wiped it off...and the cake did not come out of the pan...So I had to decorate them in the pan and my 2 layer masterpiece turned into 2, 1 layer attempts.

For dinner, we had 2 kinds of pasta, pink punch, salad, and rolls. We decorated with Valentine place cards and rose petals.


For desert, we had the BRIGHT pink cakes. But, the kiddos found the tootsie rolls and had those also. The two oldest kids both stocked up on similar colored tootsie rolls. One took all the blue at first and then older brother decided he wanted all the green. Don't worry, we did not let them eat all of them.Seriously...have you ever seen cake that pink before that wasn't strawberry flavored?!

We played games for awhile and then they headed home! We are glad they came and happy that we have made good friends with them!