Valentine's Day 2010!

For Valentine's Day we decided to host a dinner party on Saturday night and invited five couples thinking that at least one or two wouldn't be able to make it. However, everyone RSVPed "Yes" so we hosted dinner for 12 adults and six kids!! We hired our baby sitter, Megan, and her friend to hang out with the kids and made them macaroni mickey mousse with sweet potatoes and edamame on the side. After their dinner we had a bunch of Valentine's projects for them. Meanwhile, the adults enjoyed (I hope) roasted butternut squash soup followed by roast lamb with mashed celery root and lentils, salad and sweet peas with carrots. Finally, we finished it off with a chocolate mousse cake with caramel sauce from Emeril Lagasse. Aside from the caramel sauce, CK and I made everything and it turned out to be a very fun night!

On Saturday morning I made the chocolate mousse cake and had lots of help from Sofia! It was fairly easy and required a lot of beating of egg whites and cream. Needless to say, she enjoyed licking off the beaters! Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures during the party, but Sofia had a great time using stickers to make valentine's and drew on a few of them as well with crayons. She did a great job 'hosting' all the kids and was very ready for bed finally at 10pm! She was a great trooper! I ended up putting her to bed since one of CK's flying buddies and his wife were still over. As we put her to bed each night, we ask her what her favorite part of the day was. This night, when I asked her, she thought about it and then said "Um, I got to see Mr. Chester." Chester is CK's other flying buddy who was at the dinner party with his wife and seven month old son. Sofia has gone several times with her Papa and Chester on short flying trips and she's always been drawn to Chester's bubbly personality. I thought it was so cute that this was her favorite part of her day!

On Valentine's Day, I awoke to CK making pink pancakes! As we enjoyed them together, Sofia looked over her Valentine's gifts - a basked with a little tiger and some candy and a chocolate frog! She had fun playing with them and used the box as the frog's home and bed for awhile before she opened him later that day. The tiger went around with her everywhere for a few days. After Meeting, we went to a nearby Mexican restaurant and they gave us sopapillas to celebrate Valentine's Day! Sofia wasn't so sure about them at first, but after her first bite she was hooked! It was a fun Valentine's Weekend!

Yum! Chocolate Mousse cake....


All set for the dinner party


Valentine's morning (check out those pink pancakes!!). Sofia is looking over her gifts


Playing with the chocolate frog's home while the tiger enjoys some water


Yum, sopapillas!


Mommy and Sofia


The three of us (and tiger)