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Valentines Day 2009!

It's funny how kids LOVE Traditions! Jade is in the Jr. High this year and they don't exchange Valentines there and so I thought I wouldn't have to make as many cookies. WRONG....Jade came home on Wednesday and told me his teachers were SO excited to try his moms "Pink Cookies". So, I was silently telling myself..."My son knows we have a Valentine Cookie Tradition and that thrills me", but I was really thinking, I am going to have to make up more cookies than I intended too....when I am going to find the time to do that?!?
I'm grateful for a son who is proud of his parents and enjoys having Traditions and things to look forward to. I'm also very lucky to have a hubby who takes the time to create "Family Fun" in our home and so grateful for appreciative kids!!

Well, everything came together and the cookies turned out great. PLUS, I finally got to take photos of MY pink cookies to put on my Blog.
(click here for recipe)

Here is a photo of Ethan and I after we got the first batch made.
Ethan is such a good helper!!

I LOVE Valentines day and I really enjoy my "Holiday Jar" that I have in my living room. I bought it at WalMart and Tracy painted the lid for me to look like "tarnished copper".
This is a jar that is always full of treats for the holidays
and this month it has been FULL of
Red Hot Cinnamon Lips!!
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At Easter I fill it with Easter M&M's,

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during the summer
it is full of "Red and White" Salt Water Taffy

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and during the Fall
time it is full of "Candy Corn Salt Water Taffy".

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That way when company comes over we can offer them a little treat.
(HMMM....I wonder if that is why our neighbors kids love coming over so much...they always seem to raid the candy jar!) (wink)

My Holiday Jar!!

I feel SO blessed to have such a loving and kind husband, who feeds my soul in everyway. This Valentines day I am grateful for all the little "Love letters" that he has written to me over the past 18 years. They are my treasures!
I'm thankful for a husband who always compliments me (even on my worst days) and who always has a heart of gratitude and cherishes everything that me or the kids do for him.
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I am grateful to have a husband who is on the same page as me in every aspect of life, who appreciates all the "little things"
and who fills my everyday with laughter, joy and sunshine!

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He is the first person I want to see in the morning , the person that I want to hear from in the middle of the day
and the last person I want to see before I go to bed.
He is my everything and truly the Love of my Life!
Happy Valentine's Day!

Tracy + Kimberly =
"True Love"

This is my favorite card Tracy has ever given me...he was on a business trip in Denver Colorado and brought me home this card (the LOVE POTION card) with a Love Letter written inside it. He always either makes or finds the most unique and clever cards....he can even take a post-it note and make it into a work of art.
He is a doodler and always does some kind of illustration or doodle along with kind, loving words
that make a simple piece of paper something that I want to keep forever!!
I cherish my life with Tracy!!
(and am grateful for the LIFETIME
"love affair" that I am having with him!)
(collage)