Valentines, knitting and baking…

Hope everyone had a great weekend. I did. We had a really nice date night on Friday. Since we only had 3 hours alone time we went to a local restaurant called Union American Bistro in downtown CR and LOVED it.  We had appetizers, a main course and dessert and I can’t say one bad thing about the whole evening. The service was awesome, the food was awesome and of course the company was the best. It brought back so many memories of our first Valentine’s together and how it was before kids. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love being a mom but I also miss the time I had alone with Jas. It’s such a rare thing to be alone with him and when it happens it allows me to remember why I fell in love with him. When we are with the kids, its chaos alot of the time (normal) and our focus is on them.
This weekend I decided to knit a pair of cable footies from “One Skein” by Leigh Radford. Awhile back I bought a hank of Fiesta Boomerang in Stargazer from the Loopy Ewe not realizing that this yarn was not your normal fingering weight. All the yarn I have ever ordered from that site has been so I assumed this would be too.I am not even sure what weight it is but it requires a size 8 needle (worsted?). I ordered this yarn close to two years ago and finally found a pattern to knit with it and it’s coming along beautifully.  In the book she uses a beautiful reddish yarn and the yarn I used is variegated so the cables aren’t as obvious BUT the yarn is to die for soft! I can’t wait to put these on my feet!

 
In other knitting news, Henry is doing great learning how to knit!

I also did some baking this weekend. I found this recipe on Carol’s blog and had to try it and while it turned out good I was a bit disappointed it wasn’t as chocolaty as I had hoped. Carol added chocolate chips which I didn’t have so I am sure that’s the only difference. Oh, and I didn’t have ice cream. Next time I will make sure to have both because I am positive that is what is missing! The recipe comes from Kara's Kitchen Creations.
Here’s the mixture with the brown sugar/cocoa mix

Here I am adding the water to the top. At this point I was skeptical it would make anything solid, but it does!

Here’s it is out of the oven. The holes are where the sauce bubbles through.

And voila, desert is ready!

Here’s a few more photos of the boys:
Owen with his “100 Days” hat and glasses. teehee he looks so cute here!

My crazy Jack “yo waz up dawg?” He’s got a funny sense of humor for a four year old!

Jason and Owen. *love*

Owen with his “Hunk of burnin’ love” shirt for his Valentine’s party at school.




Quote of the day:
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf

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