{"id":5970,"date":"2014-02-18T07:42:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladyslittleloves.com\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:32:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T00:32:48","slug":"love-day-recap-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingwithlady.com\/2014\/02\/love-day-recap-2014.html","title":{"rendered":"Heart food, bacon roses and burnt fingers- Love Day Recap 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
The primary reason I started this blog was so that I can look back years later and have a memory book of our lives. I am not great at journaling on paper and I take a lot of pictures, so the blog thing just seemed to make sense.<\/p>\n
So today I am sharing a little recap of our Love Day. Last year The Hubby planned an incredible Bachelor-esque Valentine’s Day<\/a> so since I knew he had to work late I jumped on board to plan this year’s.<\/p>\n Some of this, like the breakfast, wasn’t thought of until the night before, but it turned out great! For breakfast we had heart pancakes and pink milk.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The pancakes were super easy to make and now that I’ve tried this method with success, I will definitely make this a tradition. Just make your pancake batter as you normally would, set aside a little of it and color it pink with a few drops of red food coloring. Then, put it in a squeeze bottle and cook the pancakes as you normally would, except that you make a heart on top of the batter before flipping. Cal didn’t seem to notice anything different about his pancakes but Gwyn sure did like the little extra something special. But the pink milk was a hit for them both.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n For The Hubby we made this bacon rose bouquet, which was surprisingly easy as well.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Gwyn helped take these pictures for me, so, you know… she is three so…. that’s what you get. All you do is roll a piece of bacon around itself in a slightly downward motion to resemble a rose and insert a couple of toothpicks to secure it into place.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Then, line a muffin tin with foil, pressing down into the muffin portions. I then poked a hole in the bottom of each section so that the grease could drain out. Place one bacon rose into each section and bake at 350* for one hour. (I did the prep the night before and just covered with saran wrap so that I could just pop them into the oven the next morning.)<\/p>\n Remove the petals off of some fake roses and put them into a vase (both from the Dollar Tree).<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Let them cool on a paper towel and then stick onto the stems and you’re done! Gwyn gave these to her Daddy and he actually got a kick out of them. She thought they were pretty great, too.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n We then got ready for the day in our festive attire and drove around to a few of Gwyn and Cal’s friends’ houses to deliver a few Valentines.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Free printable found here<\/a>;\u00a0save for next year!<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n For dinner the kids had a little heart pizza which was once again, so easy. I bought a pre-made whole wheat pizza crust and Turkey pepperoni and cut them into hearts with kitchen shears. Gwyn then squeezed pizza sauce all over it and she and Cal put the cheese and pepperoni on top. I then got started on The Hubby’s dinner and if it weren’t for my neighbor, I would have never pulled this off. I had NO idea how to properly cook a steak, and she walked me through the whole process, even bringing over what I would need to cook them with. So sweet of her! What you should NOT do, though, is grab the 500* pan with your bare hand. This can really set you back and cause you a lot of pain. This also made for finishing the meal quite difficult.<\/p>\n
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