Mom Scores Big for Valentine's Day!!!

They looked more impressive before... But Daddy got Mom flowers. And they went out for dinner on Tuesday.

and here are my Valentines!!!!

If I sent you one, do you see yours?? This year, my valentines featured Mr. Charles Dickens. I decided that I am in love with his work and so he is worthy of my valentines. :) You like? Some of them have quotes, which I would post here, except I can't remember any of them. They were all different. I think there were more than what's pictured here.

I got a grand total of THREE valentine's this year. One of them was from my mom. I hope you guys all got more valentines than that!!!

This year, mine turned out really nerdy but they were super fun to make. I think I'm gonna have to make it a tradition... Nerdy Valentines. Yep. Although, I don't know how I'm gonna top this next year... Somehow. I already have a few ideas. We shall see.

The Past Revisited: Valentines from Last year-

Those ones turned out cute! But I was really happy with this years. And they weren't such a pain to make! And I went super stingy by only sending postcards instead of sticking them in envelopes. But I had more to send this year so I justified it. Hopefully those evil postal machines didn't tear them up too badly...

I also made cookies like last year but I didn't take pictures of them. Which is a shame because they turned out really cute!! And tasty!! All in all though, the day was pretty ordinary... But that's alright. I'm just happy to know that my valentines brightened up other people's V-day. (And this I know, because some people have told me!) 

Valentime's Cookies!

 

Every Valentine's day, my grandma makes delicious valentines cookies with little red candies and distributes them by the plateful to each individual family.

So, last night, I was missing the old tradition a little bit and I made some valentime's cookies of my own! I even used the same recipe as Grandma, and look how beautiful they turned out!! 

I asked my mom about the little red candies and she said, "They're red hots, honey."

"Red hots? Just red hots? That's all?" I replied, shocked that they were not extremely special valentine's day only type of candy. I didn't put red hots on mine since it was such a spur-of-the-moment project but I frosted all of them AND put sprinkles on them. 

After a while, I got kind of tired of standing there frosting and sprinkling so I stopped the originality and just sprinkled them plain. I did have some pretty cool ones! There were a couple of faces and pretty patterns... I got really creative with the sprinkles—until I stopped. And I made a big big mess but it was fun so I have no qualms about it.

The sheet of paper in the background is my Awana notes which I tried to study but it didn't work out too well. Instead, I hummed Barlowgirl songs to myself. Yeah not a lot of studying got done. Oh well.