Valentine's Day Cookies

The girl, focused on the task at hand, we're decorating cookies people, not eating them.... like someone else is doing....

This is how a boy does cookies... eats them as he goes, sticks his fingers in each cookie, and licks it along the way... there you go... just SMASH those sprinkles in!!

pleased with a job well done

Dump em on, dump them ALL on...

Mom sent the kids cookies for the kids and lots of sprinkles for them to decorate cookies. They thought it was great fun! The kids had a pretty great Valentine's. They got goodies in the mail from Mom, A.Sandra, and Kay. Decorating cookies, playing outside in the snow with Daddy, and Valentin's Day fun and treats with Aunt Katie and Grandma Linda. Not too shabby!

We didn't know we'd be getting date till later in the day ( a great surprise) and we really didn't want to wait 2 hrs to eat so we ended up trying Buffalo Wild Wings and there was no wait...which is what I was going for, all the sports screens not romantic.. huh? Anyway I got two different sauces on the side, the hot wing sauce and the hot bbq. It was good... but hot, painful, and strangely addictive... it's like I had to keep filling my mouth and dipping, because if I stopped, it was just me and burn.... needless to say, I got some stomach pains the next morning and I had to make a few bathrooms stops before leaving for church. I still had pink mark part of my lip where the sauce touched my skin. And these sauces were just middle of the road on their smilin, sizzlin, screamin rating system.. I think they rated sizzlin or something.

In other kid updates... I'm trying to help the kids be more self-sufficient. We all win when this happens as far as I'm concerned! :) Isabelle learned to zip her own coat last week, she caught on fast and I wondered why I didn't make her do this a long time ago.... and Christian has been learning to put on his own undies and pants. He has fought me plenty saying " I CAN'T!! YOU do it!!" He's doing pretty well although he does end up the mermaid look from time to time.