Valentine's Day and What Not

Emilee and Cody's Blog to you:


Ok so we were going to tell you about our romantic candle-lit Valentine’s dinner where everything was in the shape of a heart. But we don’t want to make you all jealous of (sick with) how lovey dovey we are. We'll just let the pictures do the talking for us.








This was a delicious dessert created by Emilee. It was a pie like crust topped with my favorite frosting, whipped cream mixed with cream cheese and powdered sugar (not too sweet but perfect consistency), and raspberries. Mm mm good!
















Instead, we will just tell you that we had a good week and now have 2 dining tables instead of none. We decided that we did not have many friends because we don’t invite people over and we don’t invite people over because we don’t have a table and chairs. If we wanted to eat dinner with these friends, where would they eat? At the coffee table? You may have noticed that we ate our romantic Valentine’s dinner at the coffee table, but we didn’t feel right making our friends do the same. We have been looking at Craig’s list but we had not found anything good until Friday night. We found this great table that folds down and stores easily and has 6 drawers underneath. Anyway, we decided to get it and called the owner and set up a time later in the evening. Then we saw another one that was a table with 4 chairs and it looked perfect. We emailed the lady but didn’t get a response until we had returned with the folding one. So the next morning we bought the set because it was a smoking deal. We decided we could just resale the other table but we are kind of attached to it already. Emilee wants it for her ‘craft table’ and I admit it is a pretty cool table. So now Cody is thinking up all of these dinner ideas and people we can invite over. Unfortunately I have to cook… Emilee doesn’t believe me when I tell her that she is a great cook, and that whoever comes over for dinner will love her food. So maybe we will make some more friends now.


Funny thing happened. I ran into an old roommate from U of A here. She lives here with her husband and just moved into our ward. Maybe we could have them over for dinner? Today we were catching up on all the people in Tucson. Small world.





And last week was my birthday. Thank you to everyone who called, left voice mails, text messages, sent cards and came to visit. It was a great day. Cody made me breakfast and gave me a pass to the rec center and a paper cutter (mine was cutting crooked, now we can’t have that can we?). It was sweet. I am going to swim for exercise and fun hopefully…I love to swim but it takes time because you have to go there and you get all wet and then you have to get back home and there is no parking and it is too far to walk. Cody took me on the shuttle and it seems easy enough so now I just have to do it! And that night we went and got fish tacos. Yummy!!!



This is my attempt at a delicious dessert. It consisted of an oreo crust filled with mint chocolate chip ice cream and topped with whipped cream (and a chocolate syrup smiley face). Emilee informs me that it is called Mint Delight.