A Family Valentine Dinner

Anybody that knows me knows that I LOVE holidays..big or small..
I love to find fun stuff to do for all of them..
I like to spoil my guys with fun food and little surprises.
This year we had a delayed Valentine's Dinner, but that didn't matter to us it just made the
Valentine's celebration last a bit longer!!

I went simple this year with pizza..besides I couldn't go wrong my guys love pizza!

I also got out that fondue set...which is becoming a holiday dinner tradition with the boys..they love dipping stuff in that thing.!!

I added little choclates and gifts to each place setting..

filled their glasses up with carmel filled chocolates..YUM!

Attempted to take some good pictures of the boys...FAIL...

And even let Carter snap one of Dan and I...FAIL lol..I really should not allow photos when I am in housewife mode!

One of the table setting favors I bought were these balloons in a bag..

You set them on the table, give them a whack and then the bag swells up and pops and flys across the room!

It was neat..and at 4 for $1...it was a cheap thrill...and we laughed when one attacked Dan!

They are still in the bag at this point..just moments away from popping and flying...

And these are the little balloons that popped out of them...Dan was not impressed that I wanted a picture with his little balloon lol..

Caleb said.."hello kitty...really mom!" but honest it wasn't my fault you just don't know what's gonna pop out of those little bags!!

I think Carter got the most excitement out of them!

He was amazed at how they worked and out popped a balloon! (Thank God he got a hair cut!)

And of course we had a bottle of bubbly...grape juice that is..do you know that stuff tastes better when drank out of a wine glass??

Nope..Dan's still not impressed by my camera......

Yummy chocolate dipped marshmellow.....

Anybody wanna play chubby bunny???

We really had a fun time! We don't always get to sit down at the table together, alot of time we are on the run..so it's moments like these when we can catch our breath and enjoy the boys when they aren't fighting and bickering that make putting all this together more then worth it!

You can see last year's Valentine's dinner here and last years St.Patty's Dinner here. I don't have St. Patty's Day planned yet..but I will come up with something..big or small..we will see..but fun indeed!!

Pinterest Play Day!

I finally had a pinterest play day! You know FINALLY doing SOMETHING that you've pinned to one of your boards!

If you haven't joined pinterest yet..enter with caution it's addicting!

So I seen this recipe on pinterest for these little cracker bacon snacks..

instantly I thought DAN WOULD LOVE THOSE!!

And let's get real who doesn't love BACON?!

Basically you take a club cracker, put parmasean cheese on it and wrap a half strip of bacon around it and bake it at 250 for 2 hours....

The picture below is about an hour into baking time...

And this is what they looked like when they were done..I know...wipe your mouth your drooling...

And this is what it looked like when Thing 1 tried them!

All three males in the house say this is a recipe to be filed..give it a try..they are super easy to make and not really that expensive. I got 28 crackers out of 1 pack of bacon.

This original recipe came from The Pioneer Woman. She has step by step directions on her blog if you'd like to see how this all goes together.