One of our February highlights was celebrating Valentines day in style and with pickles. The boys bought me the absolute Best. Gift. Ever….I’m now an official card carrying “
Pickle of the Month Club” member. It is AWESOME! Each month a shiny new jar of specialty pickles arrives at my door step. A true pickle lovers dream come true! Which would all be great if I liked pickles…haha! Totally joking those of you who know me know that I kind of have a thing for them. Not only did we celebrate with pickles R and I also made gourmet, chocolate and candy bar coated caramel apples for the boy’s teachers. What a cheap, easy and delicious gift to make. We melted the caramels.
We
punched the heck out of crushed up Butterfinger and Heath bars.
Then dipped the Granny Smith apples in caramel and rolled them in candy bar crumbs and finally drizzled them with chocolate. I may or may not have gone off diet while making these little babies.
These really made such pretty teacher gifts. I wrapped them in plastic bags, tied them with festive ribbon and attached their Valentine cards to them. Rhett loved getting to tell his principals that he made them just for them.
Here is a closer picture of the Valentine Cards I made for them to exchange with their friends. Rhett wanted Star Wars cards. I found
these on Living Locurto and personalized them with
Rhett's famous head on a lego trademark. He loves it when I make him a Lego...ha!
Wyatt wanted whatever his mommy could throw together the day before the party…ha!
R and I also made iphones for all of his friends to enjoy. I saw this on my blogging friend
Kelly’s blog, which are also from Living Locurto, and LOVED it so we scrambled around last minute to find the Brach’s candy and their cuteness was so worth the four different grocery stores with three kids in tow…haha!
With all of our treats complete we were all ready for the big school party.
As I’ve said before we LOVE Rhett’s teacher!
After partying all day we decided to make daddy breakfast for dinner complete with heart shaped sausage patties.
So I guess you could say that our theme this year was hearts, pickles and chocolate….mmmmm wonder what chocolate pickles would taste like…I digress. See you soon for more February Fun.
February was also the start of some pretty major home updates. We changed all of the flooring in our house and gutted our master bathroom. While all of the work was going on downstairs we had to move upstairs. We literally ate all of our meals picnic style on the playroom floor. And since we were getting new carpet anyway the boys enjoyed getting to use the old carpet in place of napkins. It was crazy messy until we finally got the new flooring upstairs. Now I’ve just got to break their hand-wiping on the floor habits. Here are some of the during the work pictures.
W enjoying a nice healthy sonic breakfast, we had to eat take out for a couple of weeks since the kitchen was out of commission. 
Yes that is my pantry door just chilling in the living room.
I’ll post some after pictures as soon as I clean my house…don’t hold your breath!
It was a good month!
