A Glimpse: Valentine’s Countdown Fun

We’re busy here at the Just Us Four house: school, work, birthday celebrations (Shopaholic’s birthday is the day before mine!) and Valentine’s Day countdowns.
Each one of the little envelopes from our countdown calendar contains a note.  Some of the notes are just little phrases but some include activities.  Yesterday, we had one that said

I stopped at our favorite store, Wegman’s, on the way home to try and find the perfect “yummy treat” for our mini-celebration.  There are so many delicious items that it can be hard to choose.

In our house, you can never go wrong with anything containing peanut butter cups.

Petit Fours are always fun because everyone gets their own mini dessert.

 Our absolute favorite dessert is ice cream though.  So, I figured whatever I chose had to have ice cream with it.  On my way to the ice cream, the perfect option hit me:

The ice cream cake section was full of delicious cakes.
Of course, I zereod in on the Valentine’s Day related ones: “Lil’Love” and the seasonal heart shaped one.
No sweet treat is complete without some fun extras to go along with it.  I wanted to really play up our Valentine’s Day countdown so I headed off to the seasonal aisle to find some extra stuff for our yummy dessert.
I made some quick selections {I was shopping between work and daycare pick up after all} and headed to check out.  You can check out more of my shopping trip in my Google+ album to see some more of the great items I had to choose from!  It was so hard not to buy everything I saw!

Once I was home, I used the little heart doilies I purchased to make a make shift table runner.  Then, I put a larger white doily on my platter and added my cake.  Little conversation hearts that match the fun confetti complete the platter.

I set the table with the conversation heart plates and my bright red flatware.

Time for cake!  I love how there is chocolate and vanilla in each piece.

The frosting is my favorite part though!

We finished our cake {2 pieces for some of us} and started talking about what tomorrow’s envelope might bring!

Happy {almost} Valentine’s Day! I hope you are having fun counting down like we are.

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