Valentine's Week

I know this post is almost a week late..... but manning the crew by myself for 2 weeks has left me ---- well, a little behind! 

We had to travel to the kid's swim meet on Valentine's Day --- so we decided to celebrate a little each day!

 Ross was in Amsterdam last week for work - he texted me this picture and said "what would you like for Valentine's Day?" --- he sure does know the way to my heart --- running gear!  :)  definitely not chocolate for me!

 yes, I'm going to admit it now - -- I bought these cookies to bake for Jillian's Valentine's Day party at school.  They even came pre-stamped with designs on them!  It was the last package at the store, buried in the preformed chocolate chip cookies - I KNEW it was meant for me!  .... and the heart tissue paper?  yep, that's what I wrapped the kid's shoe boxes in and cut a hole in the top for the cards! no fancy boxes this year!!

 ... each of them signed their Valentine's cards on one of the snow days we had a few weeks ago

 yum!  I baked some fresh bread .....

 .... trying to make up for these store-bought cookies!

 and baked some brownies @ 11pm one night for Jayden's class party

 my attempt at a homemade heart-shaped pizza --- I think I better work on that for next year --- but Jayden requested this pizza - guess he remembered when we made these last year :)

 found this little girl staring at a picture of her daddy last Sunday --- she missed him so much!

A special flower delivery from my Valentine :)