Valentine’s Party

I told Matt in January that I wanted to host a Valentine’s Family Dinner and go all out. He was a good sport and agreed to it. I e-mailed out to a bunch of people to get valentines from them and surprise everyone with them. Unfortunately I didn’t prepare enough in advance so we were scrambling before the party but it turned out as good as I had hoped. Matt was wonderful and made the pizzas while I decorated and printed out valentines for people.

Half of the pizza is pepperoni and half is cheese. The other pizza had several meats and things on it. The men loved that one. He was a good sport to make it heart shaped as well even though I was frustrating him with my request/demands. I made name tags for the event and put a pile of Valentines down for them.

I didn’t make valentines. Oops but we gave them these hot chocolate things and some perfumed (donated by Jenny Buck).

We had salad and fruit at the beginning. I tried to cut the fruit into hearts with my heart cookie cutters. I tried to do the carrots as well but Daniel took over those and didn’t want to work THAT hard.

I made these mini conversation heart cheesecakes for the event as well. They were delicious. I love cheesecake.

Here is the star of my show.

So I saw that cutout heart shape in the cardboard and thought we should take pictures with lovers in it. Mei-Ling thought that I came up with that in advance...heeheehee.

 

And of course I couldn’t resist taking pictures of Sadie (and a few of Clark).

I love those eyes!

Here are the cousins!

And the King and Queen of Hearts! (We played hand and foot after we ate!)

I had so much fun planning and preparing for this party. And although it wasn’t exactly how I planned it, it turned out just as well as I had wanted. Thank goodness my husband is such a good sport! Talk about a good egg! (oops, wrong holiday)