Happy Hearts' Day 2015

Dan and I are like minded in many ways and probably in all the important ways, but we do have  differing opinions on celebrating cheesy, fake holidays.  Can you guess which ones of us is pro and which one of is con?

We began Valentine's Day by opening a box from Grammy and Granddad (Grammy's on my side of things, clearly).  Finley was THRILLED to see a Lego tow truck in his box!

 Miss Dagny was equally excited to open her dog house complete with five cute puppies.

 She passed out color coordinated "dog food" to each one.

 Finley got right to work assembling his new truck and did a great job figuring most of the instructions out himself.

 We did take a breakfast break but he basically inhaled his pancakes so he could get back to the playroom to finish building and ta-da, here it is!

After naps, the kids and Dan did the gift scavenger that I planned and with their magnifying glasses in tow -- they solved the clues and found all the little trinkets that I hid around the house.  We used to do this on birthdays in my house growing up and it was a fun tradition to bring back!

And no, Dan and I did not make plans for a fancy date night - but that turned out to be a good thing since our latest blizzard began around 4 and we never would have made it to a restaurant or back home! But I did manage to make homemade garlic mashed potatoes (thank you, Mark Bittman cookbook) and was pretty proud of that :)

Happy Hallmark Holiday to all!