love is in the air...... WHAT!

the word is COOKIES!

Emrie is having her Valentine party at school today! What does that mean........?

Mommy goes crazy making and baking sugar cookies the night before!

We got home last night about 5:30p, I put on my apron and started making and mixing the batter. WHAT, I don't have milk! "Drew please run to the store and get me a small thing of milk" So I'm trying to mix cookie dough with Emrie and the next ingredients is Vanilla, WHAT, I can't get the jar of vanilla open, so we stop and wait for Daddy to get home so he can open the vanilla for Mommy. Daddy gets home, saves the day and opens the vanilla. Emrie and I start rolling out the dough. WHAT, the dough is too sticky and sticks to the rolling pin and the counter even with flour! So Daddy saves the day again and tells me that he will "help" with the cookies for me to go and start the icing. WHAT, "you have to make 36 heart shaped cookies", Daddy says. "Why didn't you just go to target and get the cheap $3.00 boxed Valentine cards." "Because these are way cutter," mommy says!

So, needless to say after 3 hours in the kitchen last night, baking and icing sugar cookies to put in a cute little envelope for Emrie's valentines (I'll post cute pictures of those tomorrow) no dinner for my family, Daddy getting Emrie ready for bed, and my kitchen a total mess! I finally got done with my cookie project! Whew my back was hurting, but it was worth it, the cookie valentines were so cute!

WHAT, you don't want to sleep in your bed? Emrie had a rough night, slept with Mom and Dad. As we were on the way to school for the huge valentine party, it was raining and foggy, I had to slam on my breaks because the car in front of me didn't know how to handle the weather, the basket of cookies fly down on the floorboard, fell out of the cute basket, Emrie starts crying "the cookies", we get to school I get the cookies back in order in the cute basket for the party and yes, some broke! Emrie is crying that I broke her cookies and I messed up her party. Emrie and I walk in her class, Emrie gave her teacher the cute basket of cookies and the teachers just love the idea! :) Her teacher went on and on how cute they were and went and showed the other teachers.

So, I guess with all the drama with the cute sugar cookie valentines, it was worth it! I have a surprise for Emrie and Drew tomorrow morning for breaskfast, and then I 'll post pictures from cookie night and valentine morning! :)

Happy Valenties Day!

xoxo