About a week ago Gabe came to me in tears and told me that it was Valentine's Day and no one had given him a Valentine. It broke my heart to see him so sad, but funny too because it was an entire week before Valentine's Day, he'd just gotten the day wrong. Seeing him so excited and then just devastated made me really want to make Valentine's Day special for him this year.
So for breakfast we made heart shaped pancakes with homemade strawberry syrup and bacon. We also made Valentine sugar cookies, but when you live in a house full of boys the cookies don't turn out very "Valentine-ee". The boys didn't want to use the heart shaped cookie cutters and they didn't want to use pink frosting. So we ended up with gingerbread men, dog bones, and blue frosting.
I did insist on making a few heart shaped cookies. (Hello boys, it is Valentine's Day!)
Our little Quentin monster was so sick, he spent all day laying on the couch. Even being sick he enjoyed the treats his grandparents sent!
You're never too sick to enjoy a cookie on Valentine's Day!
Our poor mailbox didn't survive this snowstorm. Sometime later in the day it was taken out by a snowplow and is now laying pathetically on top of the snowbank : (
Who wouldn't want to play in all that beautiful snow?
We even shoveled off the deck and made a sledding hill in the backyard!
I think it turned out to be a pretty special Valentine's Day after all! I sure hope my boys know how much I love them! XOXO
