After an amazing pump workout with Tara (she totally kicked my butt and she's 8 1/2 months pregnant!), we came home to start baking! I made cinnamon rolls for Jim for Valentine's, and I also made sugar cookies to take to Annie & Cory's house. I had good intentions of showering before taking Ryan to preschool, but mixing cinnamon roll dough and getting it in to proof then mixing up sugar cookie dough and getting in the refrigerator to "relax" took longer than I anticipated.
I also had to finish up Ry's Valentine's for preschool. Yes, I started the Valentine's probably 2 weeks ago. I had good intentions of getting them done well before February 14th, and well, we all know how that goes :) I was finishing them up minutes before leaving to take Ry to school. The main problem was I wanted Ryan to write his own name on his Valentine tags and he wouldn't. He did two and said he was done--little turd. In the end, I got them done and they turned out pretty cute. I just hope the kids like them.
Jake and I dropped Ry off preschool and then we headed home so I could do more baking.
The cinnamon roll dough was double in size so it was ready to roll out. I got the cinnamon rolls ready and they had to rise again until double in size. Then I worked on the sugar cookies. I got them all cut out and on the pans ready to cook.
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| Cinnamon rolls ready to go in the oven. |
Minor problem--my upper oven had something that was burning/smoking. I even scraped everything out of the bottom of the oven just a couple of days ago so I'm not sure why I had to have issues with it today. BUT, I didn't want to ruin the cinnamon rolls or sugar cookies so I had to bake everything in the lower oven. It was fine; it just took a little bit longer than I had planned on. Of course this would happen on a day when I wanted to use both ovens. I rarely cook with both.
It was 2pm and I was still baking and still hadn't showered. I called Jim to see if he'd be able to pick up Ryan from preschool so I could finish what I was doing. Initially he said he couldn't so I was stressing. Jake had also fallen asleep on the couch and I didn't want to wake him in 45 minutes to go and pick up Ry. I decided to stop baking, go shower, and go from there. Just before I went to get in the shower, Jim called and said he could pick up Ry, whew.
I got ready and finished all my baking by 3:30pm. I just had to frost the cookies and cinnamon rolls, which wouldn't take too long.
Ryan came home from preschool with his Valentine box filed with Valentine's. He was excited to show them to me.
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| Ry's Valentine "box" that he made at school. He came home with all of his Valentine's so we looked through them. So cute. He was excited with everything he received. |
I had waited to give the boys their Valentine's present until Jim got home from work. Jake was still asleep on the couch, but I decided we'd give Ry his present anyway.
Ryan was excited to open his present. We gave him Lady and the Tramp, a new robot plate, a robot note pad (a "list" as he called it, ha ha), some robot pencils, and a super hero mask.
He also opened his Valentine from Grandpa and Grandma Mangelson. They gave him $5 and a pencil. He was thrilled.
Shortly after, Jake woke up from his nap. He wasn't quite awake enough to enjoy opening his present so Jim had to help him.
Jake got everything that Ryan got except he got the movie Cars 2. He also got a Valentine from Grandpa and Grandma Mangelson with money and a pencil.
The boys were thrilled with Cars 2 and wanted to watch it right away. We still had an hour before we needed to leave to go to the McEwan's for dinner so we put Cars 2 on, and I finished frosting my baked goods.
Ryan fell asleep while watching the movie. We had to wake him up when it was time to leave and he was a BEAR! Whoa!! I think it would've been better if he hadn't taken a nap. We had to deal with his ornery little self all the way out to Saratoga Springs.
Kristy picked up cheese pull-a-parts and chef salads from The Pie for dinner. Her hubs, Jeff, is in school right now and had class until 10pm so he wasn't able to join us for our get together.
Ryan finally warmed up about 10 minutes after we arrived. He was loving Annie's dogs, Sadie and Dexter. Luckily, the dogs were playful and nice to the boys.
The boys were just too busy playing with the dogs to sit down and eat so the adults sat down and ate without them. The Pie tasted so good--I haven't had cheese pull-a-parts in so long, YUM!
After dinner, we sat around and visited. Some how we got on the topic of my nephew's ring worm. Kristy said, "Eww, he has a real worm (in his skin)?!?" We laughed so hard--she pretty much made a Jessica Simpson-esque comment.
We also watched the video of Landon and Aiden that the photographers that wer e at the birth had made for Annie and Cory. It was really nice to finally watch. It caused Ryan to ask a lot of questions--one being where babies come from :)
Jake LOVED baby Landon and asked to hold him constantly. Unfortunately, my boys started coughing today so I didn't want him too close for too long. He did really well holding Landon though.

I asked Jim to take a picture of me holding the baby and this is what I got. I didn't get any other pictures of me, Kristy, and Annie together so this is as good as it gets. At least Kristy and Annie look cute in the picture on the right--I look ornery :)
Jim even took a turn holding the baby. I asked Jim to hold him while I looked at some pictures of baby Aiden. He looks thrilled doesn't he, ha ha.
Kristy left around 7:30pm. She had to go home and make 8 batches of salt dough for scouts tomorrow night. We packed up shortly after, but not until we got a couple more pictures. I'm still mad that we didn't get any pictures of Kristy :(
Ryan didn't want to have his pictures taken. I was ok with it, but Annalisa insisted I get a picture with both boys in it. This is what we got :)
On the way home, Jake asked where we were going. I told him we were going home. He said, "NO! Go back to baby Landon's!" Too funny.
And one more funny thing that was said, we were putting the boys to bed and I was talking to Ryan about the day. He asked again about babies and where they come from. I told him they come from Heaven. He said, "Well, can we buy one?" I told him he needed to talk to dad about that. SO, when Jim came over to say goodnight, the first thing Ryan asked was if we could buy a baby!!
Happy Valentine's Day!