Yay it's February...sadly football is over (well maybe not so sad but YAY we won Superbowl....what a great season), the Olympics are on, I booked a fun romantic night at Suncadia for Valentine's day (we haven't been since our wedding) and our house is going up so fast....so many fun things happening.
I put together this card on Tiny Prints....my favorite site to order cards from....they came in the mail and I sent them out on Saturday. Can't wait for our family and friends to get them...after seeing these pics on Facebook they are probably tired of seeing them but oh well.
I also wanted to share a few fun things I have done the last few years for Valentine's day. A perfect holiday to get creative and have fun with with love and friendship.
Scavenger hunt dinner * 2009
A friend of mine and I decided to do a scavenger hunt..we had our boyfriends at the the time, now husbands, meet at a restaurant where they would get the their first card. We had them go to a few different places around town and meet us back at Richie's house. This was all a surprise for them and fun for us...while they were hunting we were cooking dinner for them. We made bruschetta, heart shaped mini meatloafs, potatoes, and chocolate cake for dessert.
Dinner at home * 2010
Richie and I love to make homemade pasta...Richie is one who is great at making the sheets and running it through the machine and I make the dough and cook it. I had a great idea to make pink pasta for heart raviolis....well little did I know that food coloring does not go well in pasta dough....it looked like human flesh and the texture was not edible. Soooo.....we threw it away got take out and well waited a few nights to try again with a basic dough. So this dinner didn't actually happen on Valentine's day...but it was the thought that counted.
Richie and I love to make homemade pasta...Richie is one who is great at making the sheets and running it through the machine and I make the dough and cook it. I had a great idea to make pink pasta for heart raviolis....well little did I know that food coloring does not go well in pasta dough....it looked like human flesh and the texture was not edible. Soooo.....we threw it away got take out and well waited a few nights to try again with a basic dough. So this dinner didn't actually happen on Valentine's day...but it was the thought that counted.
We had a tomato, sweet onion, Gorgonzola and balsamic dressing salad. Yum! It's been a while since I've made this I think it's time to make it again.
I made a homemade Alfredo sauce and the raviolis were filled with a delicious meat mixture, and you can't go wrong with Texas toast. We drank the wine from the Scavenger hunt the year before (and also reused some of the other decor from that night).
Valentine mailboxes * 2011
I brought these mailboxes home and told Richie we were going to do a craft....we had been talking so much about wedding planning etc. that I thought this would be a fun break. Although Richie wasn't initially too excited he ended up totally getting into it. Richie painted his and I put paper on mine. We set these on the counter and randomly through the month put notes in them for each other. It was a lot of fun.
(This is a picture from last year I couldn't find one from when we actually made them)
14 days to Valentine's day * 2013
This is by far the best most creative activity I've done for Valentines day. I told Richie this year that I was sorry I couldn't pull something like this off again for him but he got to go to the Super Bowl so I don't think he minded one bit. :)
Each day starting on the 1st I left a note with either an activity, a small gift or maybe a not so small gift. The note had to do with the day and I always tried to make the saying rhyme. I tried to work the activities around the day that the date fell on like if it was a Saturday I knew we could go get pedicures or it could be a breakfast in bed type of treat.
Yum! This was the 12th day. Breakfast in bed that ended up being eaten at the table.
Sorry about this last one...on days 12, 13, and 14 I forgot to take creative photos and ended up doing them after the fact... and this card got a little wet some how. :)
Student Gifts * 2013
Last year I made this caramel like pink popcorn for my students...its turned out a little soft but I thought it looked so cute. I should know better that any baking project involving boiling something to a certain temperature just does not turn out for me....baking....not really my thing.
And this year I'm not doing much of anything creative. My baby photo shoot was about as creative as I'm going to get. Maybe I will bring out the mailboxes...why not right? Or maybe we'll make homemade heart shaped pizzas like we did last year...
I'm really looking forward to our weekend get away though.
Cheers...Happy Valentine's Day
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