The last few years for events like our wedding anniversary and/or Valentines Day, Eric and I like to do an "eat-in" type of celebration. This year was no different.
Especially with Valentines being on a Saturday I am sure that the restaurants were pretty crazy anyway. Eric and I came up with a menu for us and the kids got to pick what they wanted for their special meal. While I was able to prep some stuff during the day( which Livvy enjoyed the "clean-up"). Eric and I were able to make the rest of the meal that evening.
The kids like to do "dinner and a movie" so while I ran up to get their "special" meal, which were McDonalds happy meals. We do not get these very often so they were excited to have them. Eric was able to set them all up in our front room with TV trays and chairs so they could watch their movie while they ate.
After the kids were all set up, we were able to set up out "grown-up" meal. I thought it would be fun to get our our nice china and have nice meal with just us. We made some homemade cheese garlic bread, toasted ravioli, minestrone soup, strawberry chicken salad, and homemade cheese ravioli with water and sparkling cider. It was delicious! Everyone seemed to enjoy their food and evening : )
For our dessert we had the kids come in and join us. We decided to go with a layer the kids were very intrigued but all the different layers and almost couldn't wait until they got their own mug.
This was the final product, and it was pretty filling the kids and us as well. There was chocolate mousse, chocolate chip cookie, brownie, white chocolate pudding, strawberry jam, whipped cream, and chocolate shavings layers. The kids were not able to finish it but they enjoyed it.
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