Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines to everyone! I really liked this Valentines, it was more like a Valentines weekend instead of a valentines day! First of all I came home from a really busy day Friday from being the only loan officer... and still feeling inexperienced mind you, to a house that smelled so clean! Eric had done some deep cleaning and washed all the dishes and it was the best gift anyone could give/get! On Saturday Eric woke up to go shooting with a friend from work so I took the advantage to sleep in since I've gotten sick. When I woke up was just about the same time that he was come home to bring me these...
So pretty! Eric knows me so well. I mean roses are pretty, but just not my style. He told the florist to come up with something purple and it's perfect! It has lasted so long and beautiful and has been drinking so much water! After getting ready for the day on Saturday we went to mall and Eric got some new pants and I got a new sweater that I have been eyeing for our Valentine gifts. It was really fun to spend the day together, then we went to Eric's parents and watched Australia, a really good, but really long movie!


mmm Don't those look delicious? On Sunday morning I woke up earlier to make Eric a Valentine breakfast. I made him bacon (he never gets it because I don't really like it and it also stinks, our house smelled like bacon all weekend!) and these chocolate waffles! I had never made them before but I saw the recipe and thought it would be a fun occasion to try them!

We put strawberries and cool whip on them...what else? I called it strawberry short-breakfast.

On Monday, since I work at a credit union, suckers, I had presidents day off and Eric had no school! We went to the matinee of Valentines Day (how appropriate) I loved it! After we took a wild and crazy search for pickling/canning salt (don't ask) and returned home to catch the bachelor making a huge mistake and, thanks to Andrea, made a delicious candied chicken dinner

Chocolate Waffles

1 1/2 C flour

3 tsp Baking Powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 C white sugar

3 Tbs unsweetened cocoa powder

1 C milk

2 eggs

4 Tbs butter, melted

and mix!

Everyone should try these at least once!

It also came with a recipe for a sauce for the top. I didn't try the sauce but if you do let me know!

1 Tbs butter, softened

3/4 C confectioners sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp milk

sauce should be stiff.

Valentines Crafting

I had no Valentine Decorations! I decided that I desperately needed to solve this problem so I spent a weekend dedicated to making Valentine crafts! It was super fun and I was very pleased with the results, maybe not so much the getting to them, but yes the results!

This Valentine Topiary has a story. I was very excited to make and it seemed so easy (you can find the tutorial here.) but I had my troubles... these troubles had to do with the glue. First of all the tutorial says to use E6000 (which I did end up using for this project) but I applied it directly to the Styrofoam ball, and I applied a ton of it. This glue is strong, and strong smelling, it is actually known to cause cancer in California (seriously, that is what the package said...the package also said "Do not use on Styrofoam.") anyways, this ultra-intense glue started to eat away at my Styrofoam ball! It was insane! So I decided, maybe I should just use regular tacky glue, you know the stuff that really sucks and shouldn't even really be called "glue." Well just by my tone you can tell that this was a lousy idea. with every heart that I glued the first would fall right off and I ended up throwing the ball across the living room, using some choice words, and almost getting grounded from crafting! Who ever said crafting was therapeutic? After begging Eric to allow me to continue my craft I decide to get a fresh ball, and start again with the E6000. This time I applied the glue to the heart and only just a tiny dot and I was good to go. I could see an end to this project! the rest was very easy, the moss was messy but nothing I didn't mind busting out my new Dustbuster for!

This Valentines Day wreath looks so pretty, and wasn't hard at all! I found the tutorial for this project here. The only downer to this project was that it was a little bit more time consuming. We had a Girls Night and just went to town on this one, we all pre-cut the felt before our girls night and I did that during a chick flick and some episodes I dvr'd of Saved By the Bell.

Just though I would also blog about a few other things that have been going on. Eric has applied for graduation at UVU which means that we don't have any idea what is in store for us in the fall, but we are looking forward to whatever it may be! Eric has applied for BYU, USU, and UofU so we will see where we end up, they are all really great schools and they all have an excellent engineering program so we would be happy anywhere!

By the way, This is Kevin our friends bird. He loves to play in the fake trees.

I also love baking bread! The only problem is that it takes so long, most of it is just waiting for the bread machine to be done kneading, rising, and baking but still I wish I could make more of it! This is the best thing I have ever purchased!