Valentines Day is always sort of an afterthought around here since our anniversary is on the 12th. I make the kids our tradtitional pink heart pancakes for breakfast and for the last several years I have gotten a heart shaped pizza for dinner. I generally make Todd the peanut butter kiss cookies, but this year I branched out to homemade peanut butter cups and stuffed mushrooms (both of which I forgot to take a picture!) It turned out to be a crazy day. Melody and I had 2 preschool parties, I planned Katy's class party(room mother.....), took 3 kids to the dentist, took dinner to the neighbors, baked for Todd in my spare time , and finished the night 
with Jordan's b-ball game at 8:00. As it turned out, the new treats were a big hit so I will put the recipies below
. I usually don't like to eat a whole mushroom, but these are so good I could eat the whole pan! One funny thing did happen to Jordan. Some girls "heart attacked" our front door and left a bear and some candy! Who knew that sort of thing would be happening already. As you can see from the picture, he was not excited for me to take it, and he was also not excited for me to blog about it. I should maybe respect his w
ishes, so I might delete this part of the blog. Silly Jr. High stuff--how am I going to make it through? Also as you can see, our preschool party was SO FUN that this poor little guy couldn't stay awake! The Charlie Brown book was kind of long, but he was completely zonked out! He would have slept forever if one of the other kids hadn't jabbed him pretty hard to wake him up.Stuffed Mushrooms
Brown a package of sausage and set aside. Brush off mushrooms (aparently washing makes them tough) take stems off mushrooms and dice. In a saucepan brown the mushroom pieces with some diced garlic and a little butter. Add sausage and a package of cream cheese and mix. Hollow out the mushrooms a little with a melon baller and scoop the mixture in the mushrooms. Put in a muffin pan so they don't tip over and bake @ 400 for 15 min, or until mushrooms are tender. Sprinkle with parmasean cheese in the last few minutes. Delish!
Peanut Butter Cups
Crush up some oreos without the filling. Add some melted chocolate chips and stir. Put in a mini muffing pan (or something similar--I even used the plastic thing from a box of chocolates). Mix peanut butter with some whip cream and a little powdered sugar. Put a dab on top of the oreo crust. Pour melted chocolate chips mixed with a tsp of oil on the top and refridgerate. Yummy!
I realize these recepies are not very exact, but you will see that it doesn't really matter! They were very easy and fast. Perfect to take to a party or something when you need to look fancy, but you don't have much time!!
5 comments:
That sounds like a perfectly fun V-day, but what in the world with dentist appts. on V-day??? How funny about Jordan. I was just telling Jeffy how when Jane is 6 he'll be 12. I about freaked out about it! That is so weird.
Very cute kids! Do you have a preschool? You would be so good at that!
I love the sheepish looking expression on Jordan's face. I'm glad I caught this one before you took it down. Cute pictures of the girls looking all festive. At first I was confused and thought that Ally looked so little again. Then I looked again and remembered it was your sister's baby. It was kind of weird for a second.
Oh Jordan-
Is is time for these things? I loved V-day in Jr High. We are getting old. Happy anniversary, iremember your wedding limke it was yesterday. Red and white polkas for me.
I'm so glad I got to be involved with most of your Valentine's activities! (Too bad I missed out on the pancakes. But those mushrooms were totally delicious. Thanks to Todd for sharing!) That was hilarious about sleeping Jack. Ha! And the picture I took of the girls is exactly the same except Julia is smiling. I guess she is only trained to smile for our camera!
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