Valentines Day

This year we were serving at the Pastor's College Sweetheart Banquet on Valentines Day, so we celebrated it the day before. The boys in the family cooked dinner for all the girls in the family! It was really very sweet... they had roses on the table, everyone helped prepare the food, and there was candles and music. We ladies were blessed... and impressed!!

Jacob arranged the flowers

Ryan helped prepare and plate this wonderful appetizer. It really looks like something out of a magazine.

This was the meal the guys served. Beautiful, and delicious too! Apparently even Matt got in on the action - notice how fancy the carrots are cut? He actually did that!! There is hope for you yet Matt as a gourmet cook!!

Another really impressive thing by Ryan - he actually had seen someone on Food Network make chocolate leaves and he imitated what he had seen and made these beautiful leaves for the top of the chocolate cake!

These weren't made by the boys. This is what Hannah and I did while the boys made dinner. We needed a garnish for the dinner we were serving the next day at church, so Hannah and I marched upstairs to my bedroom, put on North and South (a favorite BBC movie) and we sat on the bed with cutting boards and knives and cut all these radish roses. They garnished Danny's filet very nicely!