Valentine Dessert

I always try to make a fun dessert for Valentine's Day.  This year I made Jello hearts.  First you make the jello, after it sets you put a cutting board over it and flip and hope all the jello comes out in one piece - luckily mine did!  Cut out the jello hearts, put them back in the pan and then make the sweetened condensed milk mixture and pour it over the jello hearts. 

Here it is before I cut into it. 

It worked - they all came out perfectly!   I brought some around to our neighbors to enjoy. 

Here is a link to the recipe:

http://www.thehungryhousewife.com/2012/02/valentines-jello-hearts.html

Valentine's Day

Most of you know that I love all holidays!   I hope Sage does too!   I had lots of fun making it a special Valentine's Day for her.  For breakfast she had heart shaped strawberries and peanut butter toast, sprinkles on some pudding and a chocolate heart.  What do you think she ate first - of course the chocolate heart!

Then for dinner she had heart shaped pizza and blueberries that were shaped like a heart as well.  This time the sprinkles were on yogurt!
 

She had to rearrange the strawberries into a different size heart!

 

After she got home from school on Thursday she told me that Reese and I were her Valentines!   Melted my heart!

Opening the Mailbox

Sage had so much fun opening her valentines from her friends.  She got up from her nap after playgroup on Wednesday and immediately asked to open her Valentine mailbox.  The chocolate valentines were the hit! 

Valentine's Party

For playgroup this week Megan hosted a Valentine's party for the kids.  They did a painting craft with hearts, and they exchanged valentine's.  It was lots of fun!  The kids each brought a mailbox for their valentines.

The kids:  Marshall, Alice, Sage, JJ, Allison, Andrew, Ty, & Case

These are the flowers we made to give to the kids.  Who knew that you could make flowers out of cupcake wrappers!

Sunday Funday!

It was a gray Sunday morning and we stayed home and kept busy.  We did so many activities/projects with Sage I lost count.  We started off with painting and then moved into activities, counting with clothespins, stringing beads, playing with pipe cleaners, and ending with Valentine's Day Bingo.  It was a busy morning!

 She had fun with the toilet paper roll painting - you push the roll together and it looks like a heart!  Notice the paint tray - the Self magazine.  We ran out of paper plates and had to improvise!

Happy Valentine's Day

Since Reese left for a business trip today we celebrated Valentine's Day yesterday.  Reese and I made cards for each other, I made a special dessert and we gave Sage her Valentine's Day gifts!  We got her Chutes and Ladders - she was excited for a new game.  We also got her some candy, stickers, crafts and a Pez dispenser, she loved the Pez and wanted to eat them all night long!  Here she is opening her new game, she tore into the wrapping paper!

Happy Birthday Tyler!

We hope you have a great day Tyler!   Happy Birthday!!

Painting II

Here is a video of Sage from this weekend when she was painting with Reese - love it!

Painting with Daddy

Reese has an easel set up in his old office and he and Sage decided to paint away on Saturday afternoon.  I had so much fun watching them paint together.  It is the little things like this, watching Reese teach Sage to paint and it just makes me realize how lucky we are.  Sage had lots of questions and was really good - they painted for about an hour.   When Reese got out the painters palette and started mixing paint she was so excited.  She held the painters palette the rest of the time.