Pay It Forward

"The first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive a handmade gift from me during this year. When and What will be a surprise. There's a small catch though....Post this same thing on your blog and then come back and leave a comment telling me you're in. Remember, only the first 3 comments receive the gift."
I happened upon this fun little game from Monica and Geri it's top 3 only.
be quick!
{p.s. email me your address if you'd be so kind.}

My Two Sweet Valentines...

So there are perks to living in a house full of males. I received two sweet valentines from my sweet valentines. Andy knows that unlike most women, I don't really want red roses. I love, love, love orange roses and I love when he gets them for me. This year, they were a light peach, but they were so pretty. Not to take anything away from the pretty roses, I think this was one of my favorite valentines I've received. I love his scratchy little writing that says "I love you, Mom". I think this was my first gummy lump (read Robert Fulghum). It was so cute, because Andy helped him make it, and he couldn't wait until Valentine's Day to give it to me. So I got it two days early. I now know why Moms love this stuff. It was the sweetest thing I've gotten in a long time. If you look really close, you will see a combine and on the back is a tractor with tracks. I love Valentine's Day!

My sweet husband has been writing a story every year that he adds to and I receive it on Valentine's Day. I'm amazed and thrilled with what he comes up with every year. I sure love him.

Cookies, Cookies, and More Cookies

So twice a year I get brave enough to attempt to make sugar cookies...Halloween and Valentine's. This Valentine's week, I decided to try some new recipes and I couldn't whittle down which ones to use, so I ended up using three different recipes. This turned out to be a five in the evening to an eleven at night project.

. The first batch as you can see were rolled in sugar and they were pretty easy. We had fun getting out all of the colored sugar that I own and rolling these cookies into it. Peyton and Andy even made one that looked like a rubics cube.

Then the real work started and we had to cut out two batches of sugar cookies, bake them, and then wait for them to cool enough to be frosted and decorated.

As you can see this is something that Peyton loves to do. He gets very messy, but does a pretty good job. We have been doing this since he was three, and I must say that this year I was very impressed. His cookies looked great and he was very creative.

This was his plate of lips that he decorated. I thought they were so cute. He said he made them for Aunt Pam because she is smooching so much lately.

These are the John Deere cookies that Peyts thought he needed to do.

Andy is such a good sport. We were both really tired that night, but we got through them fairly well.

I joined a cookie cutter and recipe club a long time ago...and every month they would send recipes, cutters, and sprinkles. I have so many sprinkles that we have quite the party decorating.

These are my favorite cookies that Peyton decorated. He did such a great job. Peyton got bored, and Andy and I had a lot of cookies to finish. The best recipe that I tried was a lemon one. The frosting was lemon and the recipe was lemon. They were to die for. However, at 11:00 p.m. at night we were sick of sugar cookies, from sampling dough, frosting and actual cookies and being on our feet until then, we pretty much gave all of the cookies away because we were sick of them.

What's the Deal?

For those of you that know me, you will understand the message...for those of you that don't, congratulations, Sherry!