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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Another Valentine's Day has come and gone, and I miss it already. I LOVE Valentine's Day. The old VD! It was such a big fun deal when we were little, and I have yet to be disappointed as an adult.

Here's a comparison of how I've celebrated VD in my life:

CHILDHOOD- Cheerios with red food coloring in the milk, scooby doo valentines, class parties, goodie bags at home, and hiding presents for each other. It was a lot like this:

ADULTHOOD- Champagne and pizza parties with some of your best friends where the dessert-to-girl ratio is 3:1.

I'm not looking at the camera because I was in charge of holding that plate of white chocolate mousse cups and chocolate cupcakes and, as you can see, I am dropping it. Luckily I have understanding friends. Plus there were more in the fridge. (We took another picture before this one but we can't use it because right before the timer went off I fell down and the camera caught me clambering back up and I look kind of like a baby gorilla being born so I'm not posting it. Yet.)

The day started off on a GREAT foot. Jarrodbaby had surprised us with a new art project just for the occasion:

and this little favor for every guest:

That's Jarrodbaby's face on Jennifer Hudson's body.

Lolo made this thing:

which features two different flavors of ice cream with several layers of Nutella and a chocolate cookie crust.

Here's a different shot of that dessert, taken roughly 45 seconds later:

Oddly enough, we had a hard time opening any and all wine bottles that night. The below, of course, is a re-enactment, but we actually had to open two champagne bottles with wine keys, which was kind of an exercise in physics and eye-injury prevention all at the same time whist kind of drunky. Looked like this!

My other favorite part of the evening occurred when we played that ever-popular parlor game "Guess which apostle in The Last Supper Painting I'm being right now!"

(For your reference, just in case)

At this point, Jarrodbaby was saying "Can you believe what he just said?" and Lolo is saying "Jesus, this finger is going RIGHT UP YOUR BUTT! RIGHT UP THERE, JESUS!" and she went to Catholic school so you know someone probably really did say that to Jesus.

There's a follow up game you can play too, wherein you guess which apostle is a Big Ole 'Mo, but I can save that for another post. Let's just say it has a lot to do with these two apostles:

In a really piddly excuse for a sign off, I'd like to show you what you get when you google "inappropriate valentine." Cheers, niblets! I'll talk to you soon!

Anne is a lucky, lucky lady.

posted by A Lover and a Fighter at 7:23 PM -

2 Comments:

At 1:26 PM, Lozo said…

your love of staged photos is scary.
At 11:22 PM, littlewhiteliar said…

I want a sassy roommate for my own.