Valentine Dinner

This year I decided to stray from the traditional heart shaped pizza and hosted a valentine etiquette dinner instead. While I was preparing it, I kept telling the kids we had some very important guests coming for dinner, so I needed them to help straighten things up etc. They kept asking who was coming. I told Sierra our guests were my favorite people. I told her they were very nice, very kind wonderful people. She asked if it was Jesus that was coming. When Russ arrived home from work, I sent all the kids out to greet him at the car. Then I locked the door. When they rang the door bell, I exclaimed how thrilled I was to have such wonderful guests coming to dinner. They all rolled their eyes and said, "you mean we got all ready and it's just us". So my main objectives were to show my family how much I loved them by making them a nice meal, and to teach them some formal etiquette manners, well, the pictures below seem to indicate that I failed on the latter.
McKay changed his place card from McKay, to McKay the Awesome and started strutting around the dinner table,
Emma tried to see if she could stuff the roll in her mouth in one bite. I will not go into detail about what occurred after the sparkling cider was consumed.

I just tried not to drop anything. I will tell you that I was tickled that my heart shaped butter patties actually worked out. When I went to a valentine date dance in high school one of the mothers made us dinner, which included molded heart shaped butter. Well almost 20 years later they resurfaced. I don't think I can remember one thing I learned in chemistry 20 years ago, but the butter patties, that's just something you never forget.

It was a fun way to celebrate our love on Valentines day.