Valentines Day 2016

We celebrated more of a "valentines weekend" than just a day.  For our "date", Peter and I did a progressive dinner with some of the couples in the neighborhood.  Every house had a different, and yummy course, and then we ended with dessert and games.  We shared a babysitter with one of the other couples so our kids hung out at their house and went to sleep there too.

It was a little stressful getting everything set up, cleaned up, plus having the food all prepped so that I just had to basically plate it when everyone got to our house.

The house was all clean and ready to go.

My soup/salad course - Coconut Curry Chicken Soup, and Thai salad with peanut dressing.  Delicious (I got asked for the recipe by a few people and some even got second servings even though they knew tons more food was coming).  :)

Mary Ann, Jake, Erica, and Chris

Justin, Peter, Me, Melissa, Clint, Jessica, and Mary Ann

Couple 1

Proof I was there - and look at Mary Ann's table set up!  Makes mine look like a night at the homeless shelter.  Sheesh.  Oh well... I put all my attention into the food!

hi, cute husband!

Heart shaped strawberries in the water - - - - she doesn't miss on even the smallest details

couple 2

The main course!  (I forgot to take a picture of the appetizer course and the dessert)

Couple 3

couple 4

Playing games late into the night.  :)

This group keeps me laughing for sure

Maxwell had chosen to sleep on the floor on his nap mat rather than on the guest bed at our friends.  The kids both did great (which was good because this was the only time we've used this babysitter - - she introduced them to Snapchat which was a huge hit with them apparently.)

Happy Valentines Morning snuggling in bed with my family

Sweet girl...

....no wait, silly girl

Maxwell chose to go bowling as a family

We let Emmalyn bowl this time but it was still tough since it didn't completely keep her attention and it was nap time, too.

Video - Maxwell bowling without the ramp and a nice little celebration dance.

Emmalyn bowling with the help of her boys.

Family pic

He asked for my phone to take a selfie

We also went to the library (where it's very important to Maxwell that HE is the one checking out the books).

Silly girl!

Video - Of course after they had fun with the babysitter, Max wanted dad to get snapchat too, so he did.  Here's the fun he had with dad playing around with the filters.

Happy Valentines Day to my sweet family.  I sure am grateful for them and love them so much!