valentine's stuff and FPADC 11-14

 On Sunday I invited the Biebers, Kutarnas, and Marshie over to have a Valentine's Dinner with Burns and me. I made Honey-Crisp Oven-Fried Chicken and mashed potatoes. It turned out real nice. Everyone else brought side dishes and drinks and what not. We had dinner at the Heninger's because they were out of town. It was sooo nice to have so much room!

Alex and Arianne taking a pic of the dinner table.

Another thing that was really awesome about this dinner is that we had a "phone stack". Everyone put their phones in a pile and we weren't allowed to check or answer our phones until dinner was over. If someone did check, they would have to do the dishes. Unfortunately for me, no one checked their phones so I ended up with the dishes haha. At least we were all involved with each other the whole dinner. I like that.

After dinner and much conversation (because of the glorious phone stack) we had our cookie swap! All seven of us brought 24 cookies so we each swapped 3. I made Almond Meringue Cookies which turned out way better than I thought they would! I want to make more some time soon.

Almond Meringue Cookies

Look at all them different kinds of cookies!

This is what I accumulated at the end of the swap:

Marshie really had us fooled when he brought his cookies in a store-bought package. He told Arianne he was going to make Pumpkin-Banana Cookies, but he went out and bought some instead! You can read that story here.

Nitty and Navy made me a V-day card :)

Thanks so much for coming out everyone! It was definitely a great night and a great swap!

So today is the actual Valentine's Day and last night Burns told me to come over to his house at 8:00am the next morning. I went over this morning and he made breakfast for me (I helped a lot but hey, I'm sure not complaining)! Thanks Boonie!!!

FPADC

Day 11: Makes You Happy

 Is it cliche to say that these two light up my life like no others? Oh well, it's the truth. Especially when Kobe looks and Burns like this. It makes me smile every single time.

Day 12: Inside Your Closet

Yes, my clothes are color coded and yes, it makes it way easier to find what I'm looking for. This was just after I purged everything to get ready for the clothing exchange I was a part of last night.

Day 13: Blue

I just so happened to be wearing this necklace on the 13th.

Day 14: Heart

This was in the card that Burns got me for V-day.

Another great Valentine's present is that I don't have school today! This is because I only have one class on Tuesdays and it was canceled. So now I have the whole day to study for my two exams coming up! Speaking of which.....I should probably get going now.