Valentine Be Mine

Valentine evening was an exciting one in our house. (Thanks Jeff and Kristen...I stole the idea from you!) Our friends Jeff and Kristen have a candlelight dinner with their kids every year on Valentines Day so I decided this year that we should try that with our family. The girls were thrilled! Candles at the table! WOW! We didn't get all fancy we just ordered a pizza(a heart shaped one) and ate on paper plates. However, we did have wine and sparkling cider for the kids. We let the girls drink the cider out of some smaller wine glasses that I found in the cupboard. Dinner was great and the kids were just in heaven with all the lights out and only the candles giving us light. Jackson just kept looking up at the light and saying "night night". I'm sure he was thinking to himself "what the heck is going on....you people are crazy!" We were all enjoying the dinner and "polite conversation" until suddenly Hannah starts crying........she had tried to bite the wine glass! Yeah......note to self....don't let kids use real glass wine glasses! Next year we'll be using plastic. Luckily all she did was get a little scratch on her lip. I was more concerned that she had swallowed some glass...so after putting the glass back together I figured that it had just broke right into the glass. We finished off dessert with the kid's favorite sugar cookies. It was a really great dinner and we'll probably try it again next year! And actually we had to have dinner by candlelight again tonight it was such a hit. Thanks Jeff and Kristen!


This is Jackson putting on all the tears because he wanted more cookies!


CHEERS!



The whole family on Valentines night!