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Valentines Festivities

Honest truth - I am terrible at holidays other than Christmas.  If something requires cooking, I'm all about it, but little gifts and craftiness...not me.  Halloween, Valentines, even Easter - so many of the typical gifts are candy and junk!  I just don't want to waste our time or money on it.  Now that I sound like a total scrooge...here's what we did for Valentines! :) I am trying to embrace celebrating the meaning behind holidays that come along and find little treats that don't give me a heart attack.  

Thankfully we don't get loads of candy or junk food from GA on holidays either.  I supposed my voice has been heard. ;) 

Addison opening her package from Nana.  


Instead of candy or treats, I decided to take to the girls to get their toes done for Valentines.  What girl doesn't love pretty toes??




Beautiful!

I have no issues making junk for cadets!  Poor cadets!  I guess I figure they are going to eat whatever they want anyway, plus it is fun to make something different every once in a while!  

For the cadets we sponsor, I made Valentines Puppy Chow. 
http://lifeloveandsugar.com/2013/01/17/valentines-day-strawberries-and-cream-puppy-chow/

Super sweet, but very festive!


Chad and I actually went out for Valentines!  This is one February goal accomplished - date night!  We went to a restaurant called Table 9 in Peekskill.  It had a great atmosphere and cool decor.

Terrible quality, but at least its a picture!

I wish I could say the food was amazing.  The menu had a lot of variety and everything sounded great.  
We shared a greek salad for an appetizer and they brought us a bread basket.  AHH!  We had no resistance to hot, fresh bread in front of us.  We had a few small pieces, but boy, could we tell!  We were so full we almost couldn't enjoy the rest of the meal!

One positive note - the portion sizes were huge!

Chad had Parmesan Crusted Chicken.  Great concept, but not a lot of flavor. 

I had sirloin tips and crab cake with broccoli.  The crab cake was great, the tips not so much.  Again, lack of flavor and poor quality meat.  


The best part of the meal was the Apple Crisp with homemade cinnamon ice cream! That was GONE before I had a chance to take a picture. :) 


On Friday our home school group had a Valentines Party complete with crafts, game, valentines exchange and snacks.  



Addison and Maryanne

Mya passing out her Valentines 

Playing heads up 7up! 

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