Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Fancy Valentines Dinner

As I mentioned earlier- my SIL came up with a great idea to have a fancy Valentines Dinner where everyone dresses up and decorates all fancy to celebrate the day with family. So here is a little recap of our day.

During the day I got a knock on the door-I figured it was the Jehovah Witnesses who seem to really like visiting me-so needless to say I was surprised to see this being delivered.

36 Roses in that bad-boy

And this sucker is huge!
To give a little perspective...On the right-a standard grocery store bouquet of roses and on the left-the mother of all roses!
Eric said he wanted to knock my socks off-it worked.

Then our dinner
We got the table set all nice
(dollar store cups, plates, napkins, tablecloth, bins, etc)


We created some mood lighting
We dressed up for the occasion


The kids had their favorite-tortellini, rolls and fresh fruit

Eric and I had our favorite-sushi to go from one of our favorite restaurants
And a little sparkly to finish things off right
--in our case rootbeer since we are a non-drinking family
Hope you had a great Valentines too.

26 comments:

  1. Oh Em, so so cute! I love your table!! So fun! That's a great idea too, to eat a different thing than the kids! Love it!

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  2. What a GREAT idea!! I love this and hope I can remember it for next year (and years after when we have kids....which isn't too far off.) :)

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  3. How fun is that?! Those roses are amazing! Love this idea. Thanks for sharing your VDay with us.

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  4. Beautiful! You totally scored.....well you both did!

    Beautiful and fun decor. Dinner looks delicious!

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  5. That's really sweet - all around!

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  6. I really love the idea of making Valentine's Day dinner special for the kids too! I may have to copy this idea for next year...

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  7. How fun! What a Valentine's Day to remember!

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  8. Those roses make my measly display look pathetic. NExt year I will have to up my game.

    Nothing quite sets the evening off right like a nice, aged rootbeer.

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  9. I think Eric knocked all our socks off with that delivery! haha. ANd much better than the Jehovah Witnesses. ;)

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  10. Wowsie, dowsie what a set up and those roses....Amazing!!! That's more than a dozen, it's obivious your husband knows how special you are!!

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  11. LOVE this idea. Way to make the day really, really special.

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  12. I love Ryder's outfit - so cute! I also really really like the glasses! Were they dollar store ones too?

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  13. Wow, you went all out. I love everything!

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  14. What a wonderful Valentines day! Love all your photo's!

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  15. So cute! I love the photo of y'all dressed up! What a great idea she had! And that sushi looks delicious - I'm a big fan!

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  16. Look at those roses! I got 17 for our anniversary last year and you got double, so awesome! The dinner looks like a lot of fun too!

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  17. Those roses are some kind of fancy. TOO COOL! You deserve them and then some right now so good for Eric. The dress up dinner is the sweetest thing. I am just bummed I didn't think of it first :)

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  18. Those are knock-your-socks off roses! Lovely!!!

    And the tablescape looks fantastic ... as does the food! I would eat both meals!

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  19. How cute! Your kids are so lucky to have great parents like you two!

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  20. Fun to finally have a minute and see your pics. Looks yummy and the beverage cups were SO COOL! Anxious to see you guys.

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  21. What a great family tradition to start. Our Valentine's Day is normally a very boring event. I think this would be a fun thing to do with the kids and as a family! :)

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