Fly into February

February started with a bang. I decided to show a little love to the family this year. Last year, I only did this for Garry, but wanted to expand this year.  I bought everyone their own little love bucket and starting Feb. 1, I fill it with a little treat each day until the 14th. 

 

I also "heart attack" their door each night.  By the 14th, they will have a fully heart attacked door!  It's been fun and the whole family has enjoyed it.

Talon and I went to lunch at Tanner's school a couple of weeks ago and they had broccoli soup in a bread bowl.  I loved it and had pinned a bread bowl recipe a few months ago, but never tried it.  So a couple of Friday's ago, I made some cauliflower soup and the bread bowls.  They were small, but delicious and the soup was wonderful.  Taz had two friends over that night and Andrew had NEVER had cauliflower before, let alone in a soup...he loved it and had three helpings.  Michael loves cauliflower, but his stepdad and little brother don't, so his mom never makes it.  Needless to say I had two happy boys plus a bunch of happy Goon's who loved it!!

Super bowl Sunday has come and gone.  We had sliders.  Homemade hamburger patties with an abundance of toppings and the special sauce. 

We made our cheese fries that are soooo unhealthy but delicious!

It was all a big hit.

We settled in to watch the game with Garry and the rest of us rooting for the niners and Talon rooting for the Ravens.  We watched the half time show, then Tanner and I went to my room and worked on his puzzle and watched a few episodes of season two of Downton Abbey.  Cynjyn didn't watch any of it.  She played Minecraft and listened to music.

I decorated the stair well in the house with a beach theme.  Krissy had given me an ocean scene painting a few years ago, so that was what inspired the beach theme.  I already had some picture frames with beach pictures in it.  The only thing I bought was that glass flower.

Cynjyn let me pick from her extensive sea shell collection to accesorize with and I guess I did buy a bag of white sand to go in the bowls too.

I blew up two beach pictures and dug through my box of old frames to complete the look.

LOVE IT!

Tanner has been working hard in his culinary cooking class to compete in the state competition for the management team.  They as a team have to design a restaurant from scratch complete with menu, decor, marketing etc.  They meet every morning at the school at 6 am and work all through their foods class.  They've been doing this since before Christmas.  They had a two day competition.

Their hard work paid off and they won first place.  They are the state champions!

Katie Barker and Madison Jenkins are his team mates.

They cap off the competition with a dinner and awards and announcing of the winner.

They recieved a huge trophy which will stay at the school.  Now they get to go to Nationals in Baltimore in April!  Good luck to them!

Talon, Tanner and I went to Hash House the day after to celebrate their win!

Our stakes annual sweetheart ball was last weekend.  It had a 50's theme and so I decided at the last minute that we'd dress up.  Cynjyn did my hair and talked me into wearing bright red lipstick.  She did my bow and tulle neck scarf too. 

This was my skirt.  For some reason I had a bolt of orange felt in my fabric bin, so Orange it was!

Garry and I went to a fifties dinner called Cheeburger Cheeburger with the Thatchers, Osburns and Wikles for dinner.  We got burgers, fries and onion rings and Garry and I split a shake.  It was fun and the workers were thrilled that we'd all dressed up.  Robbie ate the one pound burger and got his picture taken for his efforts and put on the burger wall!

Then we went to the church for the dance.  The decorations were once again amazing and we go there just as Elvis was performing...he was  the special guest.  It was a fun evening.