An article on MSN Money on Friday stated that Americans - even in the midst of our economic woes - were expected to spend approximately $14 billion on flowers, candy, and Valentine-related products by the 14th. It probably comes as no surprise that Greg and I were not part of that statistic. Saturday morning, Greg washed my filthy car, and even cleaned out the inside. Afterwards, I fixed him bacon and heart-shaped, chocolate chip pancakes.
Ta-da! Valentine's Day presents!
Dixie also gave us a hefty present, but it was NOT to be confused with chocolate or flowers!
Later that evening, we were joined by some friends for dinner (homemade) and for our own candy-making extravaganza. Using my "As Seen On TV" Chocolate Factory, we melted chocolate to pour into molds of teddy bears, heart-shaped suckers, flowers, and in Greg's case, snowmen. This is him working on his grand masterpiece. His chocolates were quite a grab bag of surprises. An almond here, a blob of peanut butter or a marshmallow there...
And here is the finished product of everyone's efforts!
Of course while we were making chocolates, Dixie was also quite busy. We took her to the park earlier in the day to play some ball. This was the first sprinting she had done in quite awhile, so she was busy recovering during all the chocolate making.
3 comments:
All that work and all the Gman got was some lousy pancakes and bacon, come on Marie! You should have at LEAST carried him to class for a week.
Very nice job on the chocolate making guys!! You never know. Greg might be the next Willy Wonka!! Ha ha!! We had a nice Valentine's Day ourselves. You can check out my valentines from the kids on my blog site. They are
beautiful. We ate at the Feedbox and then had some friends over to play Rock Band Saturday evening. Another long night of Rock-n-roll.
Well, thanks for the new stuff and I will catch ya later.
I found your blog searching "making chocolates" online. I wonder if you or your friends might be interested in a DVD on making gourmet dipped chocolate candies. I put the URL under my name in this post so you don't have to type it in.
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