Valentine's Day 2017

The kids begged for a Valentine's Day breakfast, but since Kevin and Abby leave the house at 7am, we compromised on breakfast-for-dinner:

Opening a gift from Gammy

He really wanted to try a strawberry in his sparkling cider after seeing Kevin put a strawberry in his champagne

Between dinner and dessert, Abby and Benji snuck off for a surprise. They arrived back with Benji wearing a tie. Abby sweetly tied it for him after watching a tutorial on Google:

Over dessert, we exchanged homemade cards:

Abby and I tried our hand at making a cookie cake

my cards to the family

Abby's card to Kevin

We made a joint card for Gammy

Kevin's card from Benji

Kevin's card to Benji included a secret cypher

When Benji opened Abby's card, he kept exclaiming delightedly "It's an acrostic! Abby made me an acrostic!"

With dessert done, Benji decided it was time to loosed his tie: