Chocolate Fountains

Happy Valentine's Day!  Check out Madison's box she made for collecting her Valentine's Day cards. We had a few other ideas that we narrowed down, but ultimately the panda won the day, and she was pretty happy with the end product.  She was also happy with all the cards she received today.  Her teacher thought it would be fun to briefly exchange cards using the traditional homemade boxes.  There were all kinds of boxes being carried in this morning to school, which is always fun to see at drop-off.  Kids were carrying princess castles, giant hearts, and football-themed boxes, all so their fellow students could drop in some cards, and even better, candy.  Lots of fun dip today!

She had enrichment after school, spending some time doing artwork again, although not yearbook related.  It was Valentine's Day related, of course.

Speaking of which, check out what Madison saw when she walked in the door today!  We had this chocolate fountain for a few years now, but only tried it for the first time last week.  We kept it a secret, so the surprise was set up, and it got a huge, "WHOA!"

A chocolate fountain appeared in both "Descendants" movies, so it was sort of in her mind lately.  Mommy got the strawberries, and yes, the conversation hearts.  But we also did a little penguin theme too, adding a stuffed animal and some stuff we picked up after Christmas at Bath & Body Works.  She appreciates the smelly stuff!

But you can see Mommy and Daddy liked the chocolate fountain too.  I think each of us were able to do about four strawberries total, as they were pretty rich.  But boy, these were delicious!

Daddy got Mommy a bunch of Crunchie Bars, and a nice card he picked up over a month ago.  Daddy himself got some Ghirardelli chocolates as well.

Of course, it was Wednesday night, so there was church tonight as well.  We had a great service tonight, continuing our Olympic theme, and it was fantastic.  We were showing a bunch of videos of snowboarders, and connecting it to themes of love, and sacrifice.  It was great stuff.  You can see we had one of our volunteers bring in a snowboard too!

Valentine's Day was a busy one with school, the office and so forth, but we had a great time together after school.  But our school was safe and sound, unlike another one state south of here, one we're deeply saddened to hear about.  Madison may know about it from hearing hear or there, but nothing we're actively listening to or watching.  But it's on our hearts.