Emmalee's Valentine Treats

Emmalee didn't get to go to school (notice her eyes), but Daddy brought her Valentines home for her.

As she sorted through all of her goodies, she got really excited & said, "Look Brie--I got a Dip Stick!!!"  She l♥ves fun dips dip sticks.

More Valentine Preparations

Continuing from the last post....

 Brienna helped Emmalee get her Valentine cards done, while I hot glued the candy cane hearts.

 I bought these candy canes on clearance about 1 month ago (left over from Christmas).  They were Sponge Bob, Dora, Diego, and a couple of other characters on the wrappers.  But I decided this would make the perfect treat for the elementary-aged children, at a fraction of the price of Valentine candy.  (less than 2 cents per candy cane, so about 4 cents per candy heart)

 Then I rolled out the sugar cookies & the kids took over in cutting them out.

 You can see Emmalee's "sick" eyes.  (And she was really aware of not spreading germs--she had just washed with soap, cut a few out & then said she was done since her eyes were bugging her again.)

 Benjamin took his turn.

 He's asking if he could eat a little bit of the cookie dough.

 Sunday evening, we decorated the cookies (frosting & sprinkles) & divided them into 3 groups:  Emmalee's class, Callum's class (elementary parties) & Brienna wanted to take some to her class.  So I took Brienna's cookies to her at the end of science (about 1:15).  Then it was off to help at Callum's party.  Thankfully I have games that I put together/made when Ethan was in elementary school, so I don't have to re-make (or re-think) games for most parties.

 We played Cupid Bingo, pick the conversation hearts out of the bag of beans (blindfolded), & then worked on a word search while they ate their treats & opened their Valentines.

Benjamin had a blast at the party, too.

I hope you all had a great Valentine's Day!!

Saturday--part 1

Saturday was a very busy day for me.  I got up "early" (about 7:15) & showered.  After I ate breakfast & warmed up the van, I put some more air in the back tire of the van (it has a slow leak that needs fixed sometime soon).  Then I drove to Terreton (about 40 miles away) to the LDS stake center for the World Wide Training broadcast.  It was a follow-up from the 1st one in November & it was awesome!  Gave me more insight on the new church handbook & inspired me to act more on my "feelings" & promptings from the Holy Ghost.

I got home from the broadcast a little before noon, fed everyone lunch & mixed up the sugar cookie dough.  It has to chill in the fridge for a few hours.  Then I picked up my Bountiful Basket (it was a nice one with 2# strawberries, lemons, apples, bananas, oranges, cantaloupe, spinach, broccoli, leaf lettuce, red peppers, mushrooms, & carrots--and maybe some more that I can't remember?).

Then Rusty suggested we go to the land so the kids could sled.  It was a nice, sunny day--& the temperature was close to freezing!!!  (funny when 32 is warm!)

But I was so tired--Friday was our temple assignment day & I had a headache most of  Friday (even with medicine).  I know some of it was from lack of sleep.  But the kids wanted to go, so I helped them get their snow clothes on, and was getting ready to get mine on when Rusty said if I wanted to stay home & take a nap, he would take them out by himself.  Brienna was in Terreton for choir practice, so she wasn't here to help with the kids while they were sledding.  But, I decided to jump at the chance & stay home.  After I finished a load of laundry, I went in my room to lie down.  About 15 minutes later, Brienna came home & so I asked if she wanted to go sledding (because I could drive her out if she wanted to), but she said she didn't. So I laid down again, and this time I fell asleep.  And I got a nice 2 1/2 to 3 hour nap!

And this is what the kids did while I slept:

 I love Ben's face in this one!!

 Rusty said that Ben & Emmalee had a blast just sliding on their bottoms!

They stayed for over an hour, came home wet & tired out (& hungry), and littered the floor with their wet clothes.

After I got up from my nap, we made the sugar cookies.  that post will have to wait until tomorrow, though.