Valentine's Day recap...VERY late!

Someone discovered her sister's Ring Pop and before we knew it she had it in her mouth to give it a taste! She was so upset when Delaney and I took it away from her!!



This is my attempt at getting a cute Valentine's picture of the girls. Madeline turned on me and started pitching a fit, and Eleanor had had enough of wearing her hair bow and was trying to pull it off! I "heart" these girls!!!


Every year Sloan and I go out to dinner (or do something) with a group of friends for Valentine's Day(usually the day before
V-Day). This year was a tad different...it was just us and the Havens. The Carson's and Davis' didn't join us this year since Ashley C. was about to have their 3rd baby girl (Emily arrived on the 15th) and Haley D. was in Rwanda visiting her sister who is living there). Needless to say, Sloan and I, Wes & Jessamy had a nice dinner out at Capi's. The food was amazing!!

On Valentine's Day we have a tradition in our family of making "heart shaped pizzas" and having chocolate fondue with fruit and marshmallows for dessert. When I was a kid, my mom and dad had the tradition of making hear shaped pizzas with my brothers and I every year and let's just say it has stuck...I added the fondue part! The girls look forward to it every year and now that they are getting older they want to help more and more. It used to be just me making the pizzas, but this year everyone really got into making their own.

Madeline and I made homemade dough (I usually just buy the premade, Pillsbury, out of the can dough), so this was a real treat. I used the recipe for Pizza dough out of The Pioneer Women's cookbook (it's so yummy...will post the recipe in another blog post)! Maddie loved helping me measure out the ingredients, dump them in the mixer and then turn it on! She's a hoot and normally, I might not let her help me make this, but she had been into everything that day and this kept her out of trouble! Once the dough was mixed it was off to nap time and then we picked up the big girls at school...just like we do every day...naptime, then wake up to get Delaney and Isabelle.

When the girls and I got home we did homework and had a little snack, washed hands and then it was pizza making time!!! The girls LOVED making their own pizzas this year. Everyone took turns rolling out their own dough (I did have to help some which of course, did not go over well, to make sure it was rolled out enough to make a heart/cook properly). They all spread the sauce and helped pile on toppings. So we had 3 small hearts, one for each girl (minus Eleanor...you'll get some next year) and 1 big heart for Sloan and I to share. Everyone enjoyed their pizzas and even had left overs for the next day...yum!!







After cleaning up the kitchen (quickly) is was fondue time. Sloan, Delaney and I all loved it. Madeline sort of liked it. Isabelle...not so much! She kept telling me that the chocolate tasted yucky! She did eat the fruit and marshmallows...sans chocolate fondue. And honestly, it was my fault, I bought bittersweet chocolate instead of semi-sweet. I love bittersweet and actually had to dump the chocolate in the fondue pot to melt it before I ate the whole bag, but usually use semi-sweet for the girls sake (I think I should get some "mom points" for that one). It always fun to see what kind of combinations you can come up with of fruit/cookies/marshmallows to dip. YUMMY!!!!!!!!



Hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day...uh, almost a month ago...I know, I know...I'm way behind! At least I got that cute Smilebox card posted on time!