This year just might have been the best Valentine's Day yet! I had a great time making Valentine's bags for Jason, Charly, Carter and Jenny. We absolutely were adding Jason's sister Jenny to our Valentine's Day because she has been so awesome with coming over and watching the kids so that we could go out. None of our day would have been possible without her. She even took care of a sick Charly and folded my mountain of laundry. Who could ask for a better sister-in-law?Our day started with Jason and Jenny heading downtown to run the YMCA's red flannel race. This was pretty exciting because we got 7 inches of snow yesterday and the 5 miles was really cold. While they ran I stayed at home and made the house and the kids all clean and also whipped up our tradtional Valentines Day fruit pizza. I made one for Jason when we were dating and it has been an essential part of Valentine's Day ever since. Everyone dug in before I got a good picture of it but it did say I LUV YOU.
After they got home we were just kind of lazy around the house. Taking care of Charly as her fever got progressively worse. At about 1:00 I got a delivery. I have to say that they are just about the prettiest roses ever! About that time Jenny got a delivery too (from her awesome brother Jason) with roses and lilys.
Then, Jason took me out to dinner at Flemmings where he had gotten reservations. Needless to say we definitely went way over on our budget. Flemmings has to be one of the most expensive places to eat here in Des Moines. It was really good food and we didn't even eat half of it. They messed up our order at first and they ended up giving us a $25 gift certificate. For Valentine's Day they also were giving all of the ladies a red rose which we took home to our sick little girl. She really didn't get to appreciate it until this morning when she was feeling better but I think she felt special to have her own flower.
After dinner Jason and I just walked around the incredibly busy mall where we stood in a very long line at Cold Stone. It wasn't too bad though because it ended up that our good friends the Summers were standing right behind us in line and we had a good time talking a laughing with them. We didn't make the line any better though because Jason decided we would just use the whole $15 gift card that we got at Christmas to buy 2 quart size ice creams which we took home to everyone. It turned out to be good though because we had a treat to give the missionaries who came over to help Jason give Charly a blessing so that she would feel better. When we got home she looked aweful and her fever that had to be well over 103. Needless to say the day was great and Jason will be staying home with the kids today instead of going to church. But I do think that Charly is doing better this morning.
5 comments:
sounds like you had the most perfect V-Day. Your fruit pizza looks yummy!
I agree with whoever that is above me, that is a delicious-looking fruit pizza!
Oh my gosh that fruit pizza looks SO dang good. I want that recipe. I am sorry to hear that your kids haven't been feeling well. Hopefully this will be a better week for you. How sweet that Charly got her own rose, I bet she loved it. It sounds like you Thrap's had a pretty awesome Valentine's Day.
looks like such a fun way to celebrate. That fruit pizza looks AMAZING!
So how come I didn't know you had a blog! Now you're going to have to put up with my comments :)
Hope your kids all better and things are well. You know you can always call me if you need anything right? :)
Elise--what a fantastic blog you have! I should have known you were into scrapbooking! I've been into it for a few years now.. but it was one of the sacrifices I made in our last move.. I ended up leaving all of my supplies at my parents' house until my kids are old enough to respect the thousands of dollars worth of supplies I have! It was fantastic talking to you today! I'll talk to you soon!
-Elisa
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